Donald Clarke: Ich wage Sie, Sie durch das Stadtzentrum von Dublin eines Abends zu gehen. Sie werden nicht glauben, was Sie sehen

A lot of posters on here would benefit from reconsidering their hysterical bleating about crime.

>I was recently on Shaftesbury Avenue around 10pm and was struck by all the ladies scurrying into armoured cars after exiting Les Misérables lest cutpurses hop on their engagement rings. If night falls unexpectedly on the bars of Soho, revellers in earrings wait inside until dawn before making their way to the Fort Apache that is Leicester Square tube station.

haha

I was out last night. Dame st was hopping. It was like when I was young, except now I’m old.

Main difference is you can find a taxi without have to clip-clop towards home for an hour in stilettos.

I have no fear for my safety. Years of running and cycling have done away with any of that.

But I still hate walking through Dublin because it’s a shit hole. Homeless camps everywhere, junkies outside every shop, smell of piss all over the place.

I’ve never been scared for my life in the street in Dublin but I have been disappointed so often by the scumbag theater on show. When they clearly aren’t controlling even the very obvious, petty stuff that’s out in the open, a sense of shabbiness is created. The fact that the streets are also filled with tourists, revellers, and people enjoying their day/night out makes it worse really. It could be truly a fabulous city, but for the scum.

I regularly walk through the city at night and feel just as safe. If anything I feel more safe now that it’s busy again and building and lighting has increased along the docklands in particular.

Obviously Donald Clarke has never visited r/ireland

If he did he’d know Dublin is in “a third world country”, with “homeless camps everywhere” and (my favourite) “we can’t go out without fireworks launched in our faces”.

Worked in off Talbot st when I was in Dublin (left in 2017) and it was a mess then. Can only have gotten worse since. Was heading down the country one wknd and had to get the Luas out to Heuston and train to city west. It must have been benefits pay day as the city was flooded with scum drinking their carry outs in broad daylight in the streets. Every stop on the luas had at least one degenerate knocking about and then when I arrived at Heuston there was a group of about 10 locals, right outside the glass doors. Boxes of drink at their feet. Smoking away. Doing whatever they pleased. I was used to it but imagine tourists seeing that outside the country’s main train station. You wouldn’t see anything like that in any other capital in Europe. As much as people on here want to argue.

>Irish social media is similarly engulfed with paranoia about the desperate state of Dublin. People who seem to have forgotten what the capital was like in the 1980s, an era of deprivation and promiscuous heroin use, bemoan the absence of dancing bears and jolly cockle sellers. 

I genuinely think many of the people decrying Dublin’s descent into crime and social disorder _aren’t_ aware of just how much worse it was in previous decades. Either through age, not having lived there or selective memory. 

Similarly, I sometimes see people decry Dublin as being unsafe relative to other European cities, which immediately tells you they have limited experience living in major European cities.

Relative to either its past or comparable European cities, Dublin is very safe. Relative to the ideal or its state in the pre-Covid years, less so. So while some complaints are in order, people should have a bit of perspective on what they’re complaining about.

While there is an element of hysteria to this…passing it off as solely that is what makes this country so reactive to issues. When the people who are brushing off the increase of antisocial start getting worried it’ll be a mountain to climb. Why not try and tackle it now?

It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.

I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm

Lol, i used to live in Dublin and definitely wouldn’t have gotten a late night luas to Connolly but 10.30pm a few weeks ago Jervis area was filled with people out walking dogs and having late night pizzas, it was lovely. Connolly hasn’t gotten and more or less safe but they now have more security guards at busarus and connolly. No idea where or what this person was doing but Dublin is a modern city and some places get better and others get worse.

11.20am on Friday morning and I walked past a cafe where 3 crack users were dealing crack and smoking it.