Is Dublin really safe?

Plus if you like street fighting dublin is ace.

If that's what you like, if that's what you want, if that's your focus in Dublin along with the other things you're talking about… yes. Fighting is available in Dublin, but it's not exclusive to the capital.

However, as explained before, most people here in Dublin are here to enjoy the city and what is has to offer.

As I said, you don't like it. We do. Get over it, build a bridge.

Dominick.

Darndale is known to be a rough area. It does not represent the whole of Dublin

One example I read about. people being mugged in LA. in order to rob expensive watchs

Yesterday an NFL player was mugged by a 17 year old with a gun she shot the mugger and the mugger shot him in the chest both men are in hospital now in Los Angeles .even large strong Nlf players are getting mugged in America

Most people go in the city to the shops and maybe to a concert and nothing bad happens to them of you live in certain areas you know the signs to look out for and how to be streetwise

Merchants quay is where the homeless centre is

I listen to newstalk they talk about people living in tents and the smell of weed

I think in the age of the web social media anything good or bad will be highlighted on forums or facebook

In the 90s we had only rte news radio tv and paper newspapers to consume news

There's another video to go with that. The black lad was also a scumbag. He plus one other attacked a lone lad. He got beat as punishment. Basically everyone involved was a scumbag. If we had a proper criminal justice system all of them would be locked up. But of course, it doesn't represent Galway which is a lovely place.

I used to live in ireland for my job from 2017 to 2023. Dublin is a terrible, horrible place to live.

No affordable appartments so you have to live with flatmates. Thank god most of them weren't ethnic Irish, most of mine were from eastern europe so it was at least ever so slightly tolerable but still not great. Landlords were usually horrible Irish scammers with rotten teeth who'd rob you blind.

The city is so full of crime, they attempted to rob me a few times. The robbers were invariable ethnic Irish scum, never a foreigner. One time the guy just wouldn't go away, so I punched him in the face and a fight ensued. Managed to get out without being robbed but had a black eye for a week after due to the Irish scumbag with rotten teeth who was just a junkie after his next fix.

Public transportation is horrible, the Irish are not smart enough to build a metro. They are also too lazy to walk the buses stop at every corner. Sometimes you can see the next bus stop from the one you're getting off at. If you have fewer bus stops maybe the public transport wouldn't be as terrible, and maybe call the Brits to build you a metro because you don't know how to do it.

Food is terrible, greasy chips, most of it is just British food and artificial American food, you have to cook at home to eat anything edible.

Roads are in bits too full of potholes.

While we also suffer from Anglicization in the Netherlands every ethnic Dutch person can at least speak fluent Dutch, unlike the unintelligent Irish who can hardly say anything in the Irish language other than ' can I go to the toilet please?' , the only phrase they learnt at school.

Now I am back in the Netherlands for over a year, I can easily afford a large apartment here and because we actually have functioning fast trains and other public transportation from my village I can still be in Amsterdam city centre in about 40 minutes. And I live about the same distance from the city centre as say Maynooth to Dublin city centre. There's no crime here apart from some occasional petty theft. In Amsterdam sure you have a bit of crime but it's only foreigners who steal, ethnic Dutch hardly ever steal. Accidents with drunk Irish who fall into the canals happen but we wouldn't even fish them out of the canal if we saw them drowning.

Wish you all the best over there in Ireland but just know that especially Dublin really sucks and there's better places, no wonder all your ethnic Irish youth is moving to Australia.

I used to live 10 mins walk from there top of blessington street and fights always happen there around dominick. Also a prime location for drug deals etc.

1 out of 10 😉

They weren't looking for a job with the minister of delusion, Helen mcentee.

I don't know, I thought it was amusing and with an element of truth, albeit exaggerated for comedic effect.

The moderator told me to continue the discussion here, so I did.

I would rather be nuked by Putin than ever come back to horrible Ireland to live. For a road trip or something it's okay but definitely not Dublin.

You can follow your advice to close your account.

Also maybe you should go and learn your own language (Irish or gaeilge) because you're probably one of those not very smart irish who only know how to say 'can I go to the toilet' in the Irish language.

I've visited various places in Ireland including Galway (multiple times), Aran Islands (the last place where people can still speak your language actually, been there multiple times), Belfast (multiple times), Kilkenny (multiple times), and day trips to Cork, Waterford, Cliffs of Moher, also did a road trip in Connemara.

Ireland is suitable for a short get-away vacation destination but it's not a good place to live, very low quality of life there.

Actually, top marks in Irish myself.,😁

Ireland is now a rich country , now we are the eu base for tech companys.We were not a third world country, house prices were low ,any working person could buy a house .People had large familys , and got married young.We had dial up internet , Now we have young people living at home or sharing a house paying high rents.

No one in the 90s was saying wheres my smartphone or my 1gig internet connection.If you had a vhs vcr and a 32 inch tv with sky tv you were on the leading edge of technology.You could buy a ticket to any concert for 50 euro.life was simpler than life in 2024. we were not a very rich country but we were certainly not considered third world status

dublin was not full of modern office buildings and large apartment blocks.Anyone from london berlin and rome can go onto a forum and say i got mugged my phone got stolen this city is awful.

Why bother replying to my comments if you don't like them?

Used to live there for work and compared to continental western europe it's absolutely terrible in terms of quality of life.

I don't know any Dutch person who was mugged by an ethnic Dutch person here in the Netherlands. If anything it'd be a foreigner but crime is still way rarer than in Dublin or even in secondary Irish cities. And we have way way way more people than in Ireland.

if you are a gen xer living in South Dublin life is pretty good and matches any European average i'd guess , low crime, "good schools" etc

Different opinions and mindsets is one thing. Coming in just to post insults at the stupid Irish is another.

There is plenty wrong in society that can be pointed out. There's no need to insult the entire population when doing it.

Because you can point out problems in society without insulting all Irish people.

I have also lived in other countries, some had their issues, I never hated on the 'ethnic population ' as you put it so nicely, because of those issues. And never did I treat an entire population as one single entity

Unintelligent Irish, too lazy to walk to a bus stop, too stupid to build a Metro, food is all copied from USA? Etc etc

There is nothing useful in those insults. An outsider view on Ireland and any issues they see or how they think they can be improved? Great, more then welcome.

No need for personal insults treating all Irish people as one. I wouldn't agree with it for any nationality.

It's one thing not liking Dublin as one poster continues to explain why they're afraid of the place. While I don't agree with them and think they're very over the top with the level of fear they have of our capital city they're more than entitled to their opinion.

As is the Dutch poster who spent many years working here. However they're not only discussing the thread subject of Dublin being safe or not they posted a tirade of hate towards (in his words) the "Ethnic Irish" over language, quality of food, perceived laziness, level of intelligence, would happily let an Irish tourist drown in a canal in the Netherlands, to name a few. That is where their post becomes an issue. It's off topic and unnecessary.

Thars concise and fair assessment I can chime with. There is way too much tolerance of lifestyle crime on a national level, dublin city centre being the most overt concentrated manifestation of it.

Highlighting this does not make anyone a dublin hater, and citing that there's nice dublin suburbs adds nothing; i'd call that a parochial reaction whereby dublin is a sprawl of connected towns and not a city with a cosmopolitan culture.

They do make some valid points, when someone here can’t park right next to the door of a supermarket or shopping centre they say there’s no parking, and we have so much money from corporation tax that we don’t know what to do with it, yet still don’t have an efficient public transport system, the best they could come up with is to make more cycle lanes and close off traffic to the city centre.

It’s either generalisation of Irish or personal insults, it can’t be both at the same time.

I bet those other countries were capable of building a metro, unlike the Irish.

I actually agree with his observation about Irish. I think I had one teacher in the entirety of my schooling who was fluent.

You'd think we'd make more use of immigrants to promote modern European languages that would enhance options for individuals and the nation.

I don't believe in the language=nation slock.

The bike paths are a positive development, but it's too little, too late. Try biking on Dorset street and you'll fear for your life.