Is Dublin really safe?

yeah i'm just pointing out we have basically the same problems all over ireland, albeit on smaller scales outside of dublin, for population reasons. it's still a very safe country to live in, as are our cities.

The double canal drowning that occurred a couple of months ago was the result of one homeless man attempting to rescue another one. One was from Kerry and the other was American. Families were devastated. Another homeless man from Kildare died rescuing a Lithuanian man struggling in the Liffey in 2023. Both men perished.

While I agree with your observation about the wasteful hypocrisy of compulsory Irish in Irish education I must point out that constitutionally Ireland has two legal languages.

Not knowing Irish or not having a leaving cert grade in the language never hindered my university progression.

Up till 1973 you had to have latin to go to third level in Ireland! A Dutch person told is used to be like that in the Netherlands too.

You make it sounds as if it was an option when the reality was adapting English was a matter of survival under British rule.

The apocalypse of the Gaelic world in 19th century Ireland was a consequence of foreign rule.

Theres problems all over the country, most of it coming from Drug addicts or a protected Irish group .

Are people been killed left right and centre ..NO..but its adding an edge to all town centres which is making places less pleasant than they used to be and why should scum be allowed get away with bad stuff?

I agree with you. There's little or no visible deterrent against crime in that north inner city core now.

Even when we had massive youth unemployment in the 80s and gangs of bored young people hanging around the fluzzi in the Jacuzzi there was still a garda station and foot patrol presence on O'Connell street.

Methadone clinics on every second street? Not really true. You'll see whales, dolphins and porpoises in Dublin bay - True.

I'm loving living just off the Ballymun Road at the moment. Where scum roam the area freely on robbed motorbikes, usually two up with one carrying a lump hammer or bolt cutters on their way to rob more bikes. Or for a change just doing casual wheelies past the Garda station/ flying through red lights flat out. It's especially fun that I have repeatedly been followed by them when I have the audacity to go out on my bike and they are at a stage now where they'd probably pull you off your bike in the middle of the street without a second thought. But that's my fault I guess for owning a bike and living near a festering shithole where teenage scum are literally allowed to do anything they want.

You posted basically the exact same comment a while back. We get it you don't like where you live, move if you hate it that much.

Oh, those who endure our lawless streets are the problem.

Cool I should just sell the house and move because that's what should happen. Can't be dealing with the teenage scum problem. I've been here 15 years and this is only going on as it is the last 2 or so.

What needs to be accepted is that there is an inner city cohort who now post pandemic feels they own those streets because there isn't a resistance to their behaviour.

While scrote behaviour is evident elsewhere in our nation it is in our capital that the situation has passed from a concern to an open sore.