On my way into the cinema this morning with my niece and from the top of the bus both of us witnessed a grown man pull down his trousers and inject something into himself in the middle of Blessington Street without a care in the world. The people walking up and down didn't even give him a second glance which tells me this particular community in the city have probably become immune to scenes like this – he might just as well have been smoking a cigarette. I've seen all sorts of shite in my life but I was particularly angry for my niece because it's not fair to expose her to this crap so young. There was a literal queue of people down St. Joseph's Place lane buying drugs from interesting characters one of which strutted down the road, ruffled around in his pocket for something, brought out a fistful of handkerchiefs and just fucked them onto the ground before stopping at a cafe to meet with another group of people to show them the drugs. All of this done right in front of tourists walking up and down.
How could people have such low respect or pride in their city or community? The littering, the loitering….just bringing down the entire area. Far from a fancy upbringing I had but we were taught to respect people around us and to put rubbish in bins. The smell of urine and the sheer numbers of garbage bags fucked onto the side of the road to be someone elses problem. Walking out of Tesco on Talbot Street there was a group of 20 people huddled around admiring some fellas knife which he slid back down into his trousers. Why would anyone bring something like that out of the house?! What could you possibly need something like that for in Dublin? On every corner there were gangs of scumbags. Others were picking up chairs outside a restaurant and fucking them at another group. Others were squaring up to security staff in shops and shouting "Pedophile!" at tourists for no other reason than sheer unadulterated boredom.
Is this who we are now? How have we allowed it to get this bad? You'd wonder where the gardai are. Where are the parents? I've lived in Dublin most of my life and never remember it being this bad. Honestly feels at times like we're sharing a city with yakubian apes that have entirely skipped the civilising process phase of the evolutionary road.
by Big_Prick_On_Ya
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Dublin is particularly bad for this kind of thing compared to other European cities. This kind of activity is usually pushed out to the peripheral streets in most cities but in Dublin it’s everywhere. I didn’t see anything like this in central London, Rome or Amsterdam. It probably helps that Rome have the army patrolling their central streets though
Garda don’t care, courts don’t care, parents don’t care, justice system doesn’t care. There’s no consequence in Ireland for acting like a scumbag. Just mind yourself and never interact with them or get involved in helping anyone becuase you’ll end up as a victim and a statistic.
Dublin is a fucking filthy, degenerate filled cesspool.
>You’d wonder where the gardai are.
Sun is out, they’ll be at a checkpoint somewhere, usually near a shop or chipper
Blame the judges and government not making tougher laws
Until tourism income is down massively or more yank tourists are attacked, absolutely nothing will be done.
The medical system and justice system are a result of decade long hands off approaches.
I think the story last week that explained there are fewer than 40 Gardaí scheduled for the north inner city and that includes those on desk duty and who are doing paperwork etc. So basically 20-25 gardaí max to cover the area from the IFSC to Talbot Street and O’Connell Street, Smithfield, Stoneybatter etc
And a similar situation on the south side
Gardai have had their balls absolutely clipped, and the courts are completely ineffective. Scrotes have nothing to fear and nothing to lose. Only going to get worse.
I live in the area, it’s like this daily, blessington street is particularly bad, has been for years, there’s at least 3 homeless shelters between the ambassador at the top of o Connell street and blessington street. The park there is a big attraction for them because of all the benches. Gardai either don’t care, or if they do can do very little. Courts will let them back out, and that’s only if you can catch them on their electric scooters. Head up to the park in drumcondra completely different vibe, plus they just put a new cafe in the park beside the kids playground.
Guards don’t go into rough areas so just patrol up and down Grafton all day. Any time of day you walk down Grafton or the green you will see two wasters walking about.
Even if a Guard manages to do something, Judges let them off. A sensible approach to drugs would go a long way but most people in Gov aren’t ready for that conversation.
The rubbish bags on the street thing is partially down to poor waste management policy. In many areas of the city, these bags are the official way to put out your waste – there are no wheelie bins or communal large bins.
It will happen in any space where there is no police presence, lack of education, and lack of social activities.
Kids grow up in that to have kids that grow up in that and the cycle continues.
It’s been building up through decades of neglect. I used to work in a pub at the height of the Celtic Tiger and would regularly finish work at 1am. I’d walk home to Stoneybatter because I’d be home quicker than the time it took to get to the top of the taxi queue.
The only time I felt apprehensive was passing the Four Courts because of the users hanging out there.
I was a woman in her 20s. I would never do that walk now. You really can notice the reduction in patrolling gardai.
D1 has ALWAYS been like that.
I used to live on Blessington Street for a few years, left last summer. The street devolved into a shithole over the past 2-3 years with junkies and a small gang of cunts openingly dealing drugs. I’ve regularly seen junkies openingly shit and piss on the street, right in front of passers-by and the laneways have become dangerous (same gang of cunts dealing, and one in particular on an escooter who’s packing).
I’m no expert but I’d say it’s a result of decades of soft sentences, practically no consequences for their actions, little effort in rehabilitation, mental health issues, little to no respect have brought us here.
Irish people voted in the same clowns so nothing will change .
Things will get way worse over the next few years.
Just look at the state of Naples, Brussels etc
We’re just lagging a few years behind.
Dublin is on its way to becoming a 3rd world shithole
When city that is not designed to be lived in but to cater to business and where the basic needs of everyone in the country are not being met leads this is what happens.
Not a great life for the guy you encountered either. You only had to see him once. He has to live it.
Came across a video on YT called deep inside Dublin and was a real eye opener. https://youtu.be/MPKVX-Grl6g?si=yZdDvhVD1ptg1UTK
Again? Are you new to Dublin? This has been going on for decades and decades.
First time I witnessed it was getting off a bus on abbey Street in 1990 for the world cup parade and lads selling openly. There’s some mythical past in Dublin that never existed that you want to go back to. City was a shit hole in the 80s, a drug riddled shit hole in the 90s, early 2000s was a building site shit hole and lately just the same.
I know a lot of people think it’s “trendy” and it’s not as “hardcore” but can’t go anywhere nowadays without getting that constant skunky wiff of weed.
Graffiti, rubbish overflowing from bins, smells of p*ss and weed, ferals wearing fake Canada Goose clothing everywhere….. Dublin has turned into an utter shithole. I live here. My husband is a born and bred Dub and he hates going into town now.
I’m only half Irish and did not live here for most of my life, but I don’t remember it being any better? In fact, places like Grand Canal Dock and the IFSC used to be a decrepit, junkie infested shitholes. They now contribute billions to the Irish economy.
History aside, Irish policing and the court system are hamstrung. The teenage gang thing seems to be only a thing in Anglophone countries. If you tried half of what I’ve seen on Dublin’s streets at home, the police would kick the shit out of you. Obviously that isn’t ideal, but you can’t have a weak police force AND a weak justice system. There’s no disincentive to crime at all.
When people are openly stepping into a cafe to get wind cover to light a crack pipe, you know you have a problem.
If only dublin wasn’t a deliberately designed primate city
I don’t live there but I can’t remember a time that this wasn’t an issue. I remember junkies being pointed out in the street like a tourist attraction.
Dublin, You’re a kip now and you’ve always been a kip. The only thing that will change is that you’ll become an even bigger kip. Maybe have a couple more kip kids.
Drug dealing and anti social behaviour is out of control because we tolerate it. Singapore is a much larger city and they have no such trouble because the government and society don’t tolerate it to happen.
1. Take 500 already paid for army people, give them some training and stick them on the streets (no guns).
2. Build more prisons.
3. Zero tolerance for scrote behavior
I’m just weary of the type of comments that claim it was always as bad as it is now. It had its dodgy areas, and there were always scrotes. But they’ve multiplied and the impervious audacity they’ve developed has been in direct concurrence with the decline in policing and effective application of the courts.
It’s pretty simple we have no prison spaces left. Our prisons are a 1000 over capacity. Policing has become toothless over the last 5 years. Over concentration of homeless services in the city centre. The list goes on. Drug addiction will never be solved, but extra prison spaces would sort out random violence and antisocial behaviour on the streets. Most criminals are walking around on bail and suspended sentences waiting to be triggered by their next offence. The Government aren’t managing anything proactively about the situation.
Need more Gardai
Had an obese lady stop in front of me on Abbey Street at 8:30am one morning, drop her trousers and take a shit outside the old lotto office.
Dubs… eh!
Dublin needs ✨Gentrification✨
We have not built a jail since the 70s. This catch and release experiment is playing out on the streets of our nations capitol
Simple.
Our bleeding heart court system. It’s a revolving door of non consequences.
The amount of Garda time and taxpayers money wasted catching the cunts and convicting them. Only for a judge to turf them back on the streets 5 mins later.
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