Starting to think we should reintroduce medieval punishments within the canals.
It must be some culture shock for a Swiss couple arriving in this kip.
The fact that any Irish person reading that headline will automatically (and correctly) assume the offending party is a group of younger men says a lot about the problem we have here.
Serious question: how do we express our outrage and try to get something done about the scumbag scourge? Do we write to our local TDs? Feel fuxking powerless against this plague. I’ve personally had friends go through some terrible stuff with gangs of young scrotes.
Bunch of these cunts once tripped me up onto the lias tracks at smithfield, when they saw where I landed they all took off, luas was a good bit away but I had no chance if it was close
We definitely need to pump more money into Garda resourcing in Dublin especially. Temple Bar and other areas on a weekend night are as busy with people as a music festival, and you would see way more Gardai and security staff at the festival than you would in Temple Bar.
This isn’t even the only assault that took place at the weekend. Had a nice American guy in my bar on Sat night, he got chatting to a few regulars. They relayed his story to me. Got assaulted and mugged in Temple bar, ended up the Mater. Had stitches on a nasty wound on the back of his head and probably a good few scrapes and bruises elsewhere. They took his watch, phone, wallet with all his cards. They then found the key card for his hotel room and went in and cleared out all his valuables from his hotel room. Luckily they didn’t take his passport.
Had to be moved to another hotel, which is across the street from my bar. He was afraid to leave the hotel that night but the staff there told him our bar was right next door and he could go hear some music. I’m really glad he came in and hope he enjoyed his night. Let him and a few musicians stay for a late drink and a few songs and bought him a top shelf Irish whiskey. The poor guy was only in Dublin for two fuckin nights and had to go through that on the first night!
I felt absolutely ashamed of the city and country. The lack of Garda presence at night is shameful.
This is Dublin. Its non fucking stop and the state doesn’t give two fucks. Throw these fucking droolers into the Liffey.
Anything to be said for another suspended sentence?
Nobody worry – absolutely nothing will be done
Only last week I was on the aircoach from Cork to Dublin. There was an Arab family and the father got chatting to an Irish lad on the bus about their time in Cork, how much they loved it etc. he was going to Dublin to spend a few days and the Irish lad pointed out the ha’penny bridge as were arriving and the Arab father is calling his daughters to the window and telling them it’s a famous bridge and they’ll go take a photo when they get off – the whole family were in high spirits
We get off the bus, he’s getting his luggage and accidentally bumps into a teen who goes ‘fucking Paki’ and spits on the ground beside him
Welcome to Dublin
The US state department came out and warned Americans about random assaults and rising racism in Ireland
Severe lack of beat cops in the city centre. There should be two on the main Temple bar thoroughfare everyday from 4pm-4am.
A housemate of mine was attacked last Wednesday night. He was coming out of grand social with one friend and group of maybe 6 or more just demanded phones and wallets . Not enough for them to do that but they beat them both up , one scrote even swung a bike at his head. Spent the remainder of the night at garda station doing a report and his mate in hospital.
My pals only been here 6months ffs. Moved from Serbia to do better in his career and now is hesitant to go anywhere. He’s a big lad too . 6ft2 and built strong . Wouldn’t matter against a crowd anyways especially when yer drunk.
Is it a gang that’s operating this way? Because there’s alot of reddit and Facebook posts all sounding very similar.
I was up having a few takeaway drinks at the grand canal over lockdown summer 2021. At about 7 or 8pm, the guards politely started moving people on (hundreds of people enjoying the weather and socialising at the canal peacefully). I went down to temple bar and it was like land of the living dead. Aggressive trackies boyos, people pestering your for change and shouting at you when you said no, junkies, people off their head etc. Don’t worry though, plenty of resources to spend telling peaceful people they can’t drink outside and they should move on. Priorities are all wrong.
I love the city, but it has degraded drastically in recent years. Personally, I don’t feel safe walking about some parts of town during the day, let alone at night.
Asking as a foreigner…
Because Irish laws enable youths to act with impunity, do these thugs not care if you’re an imposing looking individual or group since they’ve come to expect you to not fight back, or do they gravitate more towards weaker/easier looking targets as they do in most other cities abroad?
Ireland is a fucking Kip. Dublin in particular is a poxy shithole at times. I’m from a rough area and I fucking hate it. The young fellas are fucking pure scum. Even some relatives are utter gutter scum. Animals. I fucking hate this dump
Had dinner in klaw one night and the amount of scaldys around trying to slap people walking by, one day they’ll slap the wrong person and the person been attack will be arrested for self defense
I don’t give a flying fuck what anyone says
DUBLIN CITY CENTER IS A MASSIVE SHIT HOLE.
I was out in town for the first time since covid so say the guts of 3 years, here’s what I seen in about 5 hours and I am not lying or just chatting shit on reddit.
.Seen a guy passed out on O’Connell bridge, he honestly looked dead, laying there in the sun completely sunburnt like the worst I ever seen, 2 girls from Brazil rang the gaurds while everyone walked by…..this was just 3 minutes after getting off the dart.
. About 5 minutes later up O’Connell Street I seen 2 young lads little scum bags mouthing at people walking by, just being shit heads like walking into people looking for a reaction, basically looks for someone to say something so they can start a fight….lads will know what I mean we all been there.
. Later on as I was on my way to dinner was about 5pm now, I seen another 2 junkies mixing up some strange drug…. looked like perception drugs of some type….also doing this smack bang in the middle of the footpath.
. Now after dinner, I seen a young lad flying around on one of them scooters and some who I can only imagine was a Brazilian man running after him at a full sprint….must have taken his phone or something.
. On my way back to the dart station now, seen two men full of fighting like animals just up from Trinity, shouting like someone was dying it was rotten to look at.
Now this was in the span of 4-5 hours that’s what I seen, I have heard nothing but horror story’s from other friends coming back from town, I will not let my girlfriend get the last dart home, I pay for a taxi home because it is just not safe any more and that’s the truth.
When I was in college back in 2013 Dublin was nowhere near as bad, like you had to be aware who was around you at all times at night but fuck me it’s like the place has been turned up to 11 now, I honestly did not feel safe going back to Tara street station I was at a almost half walk/jog just to get there sooner, when I got off back in Wicklow I said to myself that this is it, unless I actually really need to go into the city center I won’t be going back.
The whole vibe of the place has changed it’s just not the same as it was 10 years ago, like honestly and I love people from Dublin and I’m not talking bad about yous or the county as a whole but the city center is a absolute fucking shit hole it’s a complete kip, the last time I felt like I was on edge like that was when I am in Amsterdam center at about 2am, it just feels dirty….seedy.
Temple bar is a disaster, gouges tourists but couldn’t spend a bit of money making it safe. See drug use in plain view down the alleys.
The amount of puffy jacket scrotes around that area it’s a fucking embarrassment. Dublin isn’t even a big city relative to other European cities. We should have some level of control over this.
O’Connell street alone is a fucking embarrassment
“I can’t think of any capital city in Europe that is as safe as Dublin” – FG senator Barry Ward
There needs to be a constant police presence in temple bar. Beat cops in temple bar and other areas of Dublin but with this attack it shows temple bar needs it. Crucial part of tourism and having a tourist badly assaulted only tarnishes the reputation of the city and nation
It all boils down to our courts empowering the little shits by not handing out relavent sentencing on the cases they are presented with. Let the judges sit through a LUAS trip out of town with them and watch them change their tune.
People being legally allowed to carry pepper spray wouldn’t go amiss either, absolutely archaic approach to people being able to legally defend themselves here.
“a teenager has been arrested”.
This phrase has lost all meaning now. Being arrested doesn’t mean shit these days. In fact he’s already released.
I’m from Dublin and I hate to say it but I increasingly just dislike going anywhere near the city centre. It’s not pleasant. There are poor unfortunate looking junkies roaming around like zombies and then you’ve got the local wildlife that seems to think it’s normal to just bully / pester / attack random passers by.
When you add how badly maintained the city centre is these days – just looks unkempt and like the council simply doesn’t care, it really doesn’t add up to somewhere I want to spend a lot of time.
I know Dublin’s always had issues, I mean I remember friends of mine being beaten up and stuff years ago, but it just one of the few cities I feel I am constantly watching my back and walking with purpose, sticking to main streets and so on. As a male in my 30s I don’t feel safe in a lot of the city centre tbh.
I don’t feel that sense of dread in London – the only places I would say had a similar vibe were a few spots in Paris, where I just felt I needed to look ahead, make no eye contact and walk fast.
When you say any of this you’re immediately rounded upon by people who’ll tell you “Ah you’re exaggerating’ .. “It’s grand…” etc etc .. It really isn’t. It has a huge problem and it’s not dealing with it and pretending it’s not there.
Policing is completely inadequate and not present and the judiciary are giving people mild telling offs for what are quite serious crimes and assaults.
Dublin also seems to be way worse since the lock downs. It’s like the feral population saw it as their playground during that period and became extra brazen.
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Starting to think we should reintroduce medieval punishments within the canals.
It must be some culture shock for a Swiss couple arriving in this kip.
The fact that any Irish person reading that headline will automatically (and correctly) assume the offending party is a group of younger men says a lot about the problem we have here.
[No points for guessing how the government will respond](https://i.imgur.com/mjS4kXe.jpg)
Serious question: how do we express our outrage and try to get something done about the scumbag scourge? Do we write to our local TDs? Feel fuxking powerless against this plague. I’ve personally had friends go through some terrible stuff with gangs of young scrotes.
Bunch of these cunts once tripped me up onto the lias tracks at smithfield, when they saw where I landed they all took off, luas was a good bit away but I had no chance if it was close
We definitely need to pump more money into Garda resourcing in Dublin especially. Temple Bar and other areas on a weekend night are as busy with people as a music festival, and you would see way more Gardai and security staff at the festival than you would in Temple Bar.
This isn’t even the only assault that took place at the weekend. Had a nice American guy in my bar on Sat night, he got chatting to a few regulars. They relayed his story to me. Got assaulted and mugged in Temple bar, ended up the Mater. Had stitches on a nasty wound on the back of his head and probably a good few scrapes and bruises elsewhere. They took his watch, phone, wallet with all his cards. They then found the key card for his hotel room and went in and cleared out all his valuables from his hotel room. Luckily they didn’t take his passport.
Had to be moved to another hotel, which is across the street from my bar. He was afraid to leave the hotel that night but the staff there told him our bar was right next door and he could go hear some music. I’m really glad he came in and hope he enjoyed his night. Let him and a few musicians stay for a late drink and a few songs and bought him a top shelf Irish whiskey. The poor guy was only in Dublin for two fuckin nights and had to go through that on the first night!
I felt absolutely ashamed of the city and country. The lack of Garda presence at night is shameful.
This is Dublin. Its non fucking stop and the state doesn’t give two fucks. Throw these fucking droolers into the Liffey.
Anything to be said for another suspended sentence?
Nobody worry – absolutely nothing will be done
Only last week I was on the aircoach from Cork to Dublin. There was an Arab family and the father got chatting to an Irish lad on the bus about their time in Cork, how much they loved it etc. he was going to Dublin to spend a few days and the Irish lad pointed out the ha’penny bridge as were arriving and the Arab father is calling his daughters to the window and telling them it’s a famous bridge and they’ll go take a photo when they get off – the whole family were in high spirits
We get off the bus, he’s getting his luggage and accidentally bumps into a teen who goes ‘fucking Paki’ and spits on the ground beside him
Welcome to Dublin
The US state department came out and warned Americans about random assaults and rising racism in Ireland
Severe lack of beat cops in the city centre. There should be two on the main Temple bar thoroughfare everyday from 4pm-4am.
A housemate of mine was attacked last Wednesday night. He was coming out of grand social with one friend and group of maybe 6 or more just demanded phones and wallets . Not enough for them to do that but they beat them both up , one scrote even swung a bike at his head. Spent the remainder of the night at garda station doing a report and his mate in hospital.
My pals only been here 6months ffs. Moved from Serbia to do better in his career and now is hesitant to go anywhere. He’s a big lad too . 6ft2 and built strong . Wouldn’t matter against a crowd anyways especially when yer drunk.
Is it a gang that’s operating this way? Because there’s alot of reddit and Facebook posts all sounding very similar.
I was up having a few takeaway drinks at the grand canal over lockdown summer 2021. At about 7 or 8pm, the guards politely started moving people on (hundreds of people enjoying the weather and socialising at the canal peacefully). I went down to temple bar and it was like land of the living dead. Aggressive trackies boyos, people pestering your for change and shouting at you when you said no, junkies, people off their head etc. Don’t worry though, plenty of resources to spend telling peaceful people they can’t drink outside and they should move on. Priorities are all wrong.
I love the city, but it has degraded drastically in recent years. Personally, I don’t feel safe walking about some parts of town during the day, let alone at night.
Asking as a foreigner…
Because Irish laws enable youths to act with impunity, do these thugs not care if you’re an imposing looking individual or group since they’ve come to expect you to not fight back, or do they gravitate more towards weaker/easier looking targets as they do in most other cities abroad?
Ireland is a fucking Kip. Dublin in particular is a poxy shithole at times. I’m from a rough area and I fucking hate it. The young fellas are fucking pure scum. Even some relatives are utter gutter scum. Animals. I fucking hate this dump
Had dinner in klaw one night and the amount of scaldys around trying to slap people walking by, one day they’ll slap the wrong person and the person been attack will be arrested for self defense
I don’t give a flying fuck what anyone says
DUBLIN CITY CENTER IS A MASSIVE SHIT HOLE.
I was out in town for the first time since covid so say the guts of 3 years, here’s what I seen in about 5 hours and I am not lying or just chatting shit on reddit.
.Seen a guy passed out on O’Connell bridge, he honestly looked dead, laying there in the sun completely sunburnt like the worst I ever seen, 2 girls from Brazil rang the gaurds while everyone walked by…..this was just 3 minutes after getting off the dart.
. About 5 minutes later up O’Connell Street I seen 2 young lads little scum bags mouthing at people walking by, just being shit heads like walking into people looking for a reaction, basically looks for someone to say something so they can start a fight….lads will know what I mean we all been there.
. Later on as I was on my way to dinner was about 5pm now, I seen another 2 junkies mixing up some strange drug…. looked like perception drugs of some type….also doing this smack bang in the middle of the footpath.
. Now after dinner, I seen a young lad flying around on one of them scooters and some who I can only imagine was a Brazilian man running after him at a full sprint….must have taken his phone or something.
. On my way back to the dart station now, seen two men full of fighting like animals just up from Trinity, shouting like someone was dying it was rotten to look at.
Now this was in the span of 4-5 hours that’s what I seen, I have heard nothing but horror story’s from other friends coming back from town, I will not let my girlfriend get the last dart home, I pay for a taxi home because it is just not safe any more and that’s the truth.
When I was in college back in 2013 Dublin was nowhere near as bad, like you had to be aware who was around you at all times at night but fuck me it’s like the place has been turned up to 11 now, I honestly did not feel safe going back to Tara street station I was at a almost half walk/jog just to get there sooner, when I got off back in Wicklow I said to myself that this is it, unless I actually really need to go into the city center I won’t be going back.
The whole vibe of the place has changed it’s just not the same as it was 10 years ago, like honestly and I love people from Dublin and I’m not talking bad about yous or the county as a whole but the city center is a absolute fucking shit hole it’s a complete kip, the last time I felt like I was on edge like that was when I am in Amsterdam center at about 2am, it just feels dirty….seedy.
Temple bar is a disaster, gouges tourists but couldn’t spend a bit of money making it safe. See drug use in plain view down the alleys.
The amount of puffy jacket scrotes around that area it’s a fucking embarrassment. Dublin isn’t even a big city relative to other European cities. We should have some level of control over this.
O’Connell street alone is a fucking embarrassment
“I can’t think of any capital city in Europe that is as safe as Dublin” – FG senator Barry Ward
There needs to be a constant police presence in temple bar. Beat cops in temple bar and other areas of Dublin but with this attack it shows temple bar needs it. Crucial part of tourism and having a tourist badly assaulted only tarnishes the reputation of the city and nation
It all boils down to our courts empowering the little shits by not handing out relavent sentencing on the cases they are presented with. Let the judges sit through a LUAS trip out of town with them and watch them change their tune.
People being legally allowed to carry pepper spray wouldn’t go amiss either, absolutely archaic approach to people being able to legally defend themselves here.
“a teenager has been arrested”.
This phrase has lost all meaning now. Being arrested doesn’t mean shit these days. In fact he’s already released.
I’m from Dublin and I hate to say it but I increasingly just dislike going anywhere near the city centre. It’s not pleasant. There are poor unfortunate looking junkies roaming around like zombies and then you’ve got the local wildlife that seems to think it’s normal to just bully / pester / attack random passers by.
When you add how badly maintained the city centre is these days – just looks unkempt and like the council simply doesn’t care, it really doesn’t add up to somewhere I want to spend a lot of time.
I know Dublin’s always had issues, I mean I remember friends of mine being beaten up and stuff years ago, but it just one of the few cities I feel I am constantly watching my back and walking with purpose, sticking to main streets and so on. As a male in my 30s I don’t feel safe in a lot of the city centre tbh.
I don’t feel that sense of dread in London – the only places I would say had a similar vibe were a few spots in Paris, where I just felt I needed to look ahead, make no eye contact and walk fast.
When you say any of this you’re immediately rounded upon by people who’ll tell you “Ah you’re exaggerating’ .. “It’s grand…” etc etc .. It really isn’t. It has a huge problem and it’s not dealing with it and pretending it’s not there.
Policing is completely inadequate and not present and the judiciary are giving people mild telling offs for what are quite serious crimes and assaults.
Dublin also seems to be way worse since the lock downs. It’s like the feral population saw it as their playground during that period and became extra brazen.