Eight American tourists left ‘traumatised’ after man wearing balaclava allegedly broke into their Dublin city centre Airbnb

by PoppedCork

36 comments

  1. >The man allegedly broke into the Airbnb on Talbot Street and stole the TV that the eight female tourists were watching, before escaping.

    I’m sure it wasn’t a great expereince but this reads as pure slapstick.

  2. “The man allegedly broke into the Airbnb on Talbot Street and stole the TV that the eight female tourists were watching, before escaping.”

    Airbnb on Talbot St, that’s your problem right there…

  5. Hopefully they tell their friends and families and don’t come back!

  7. Why steal a tv? I don’t see the benefit they aren’t hard to come by.

  8. This is a horrible thing to happen I’m sure, but it genuinely reads like an episode of It’s Always Sunny or some other dark comedy. The robber couldn’t even escape properly and the lads from the nearby pub had to help the tourists with the Gardaí. 

  9. Can’t say they didn’t get an authentic Dublin experience.

  11. What Airbnb on talbot is big enough to hold 8 people?

  12. Aaaahhh tablet street. It’s the worst street in the country now. Poor people to be victim of our scumbags. Just avoid the area in general if you all can, nothing good happens around there. 

  13. “The guards did a great job, as always” – what, just taking the report from the girls?

    Catching the guy or preventing it in the first place is a great job.

    Also, and I feel like such a NIMBY for saying it, but I hope that AirBnB has planning and if it doesn’t then it is shut down after this.

  15. Dublin use to have that horror tour bus what was it ghost bus… But fear not, no need for bus anymore the horror visits you and you get authentic dublin experience to take home

  17. Balaclava Boris at it again the scamp, works for the TV licence inspectors and takes his job seriously

  18. Don’t know why any tourist would visit Dublin with the amount of stories about the place

  20. What needs to happen in Dublin to bring law and order?
    I haven’t lived in Dublin for long but as an immigrant who come from one of the biggest cities in the world, and a city some say is 3rd world, I have not encountered problems that I see daily in Dublin in 1st world.

    There are many troubles where I come from, but I’m most likely get pick pocket. Not knife attacks or daily racist encounters. The trash bins of my apartment were stolen last week by other immigrants who search our trash every night and I live in one of the best areas in Dublin.

    In my country I have never seen people doing injectable drugs but I see this walking in the train station at 9am in Dublin with police nearby ignore it.

    It feels like this city becomes increasingly lawless and I think many of my fellow immigrants see it as like playground where they can misbehave and not care because no body cares. It feels like major society breakdown.

  23. Cead Mile Failte folks! That’s just the way this country is. Ara sure ya can’t be sending repeat offenders ta prison so ya can’t

  24. They were watching Fair City/shitty… He did them a favour. They’d be more traumatised.

  25. My sympathy for American tourists these days is close to zero. 

  27. I’d to double check to make sure this wasn’t a Waterford whisper’s article

  32. *Tourism Ireland* should have their slogan changed to “Ireland – Middle Earth with Gotham as Capital”

  33. “Who works at the AirBnb” – like makes a mockery of us all

  36. Rich tourists having to deal with the consequences of the gentrification they fund will never cease to amuse me

    You could not pay me to stay in an AirBnB

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