Dublin in crisis: Once a thriving capital, today the city centre is dangerous, dirty and downright depressing
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/dublin-in-crisis-once-a-thriving-capital-today-the-city-centre-is-dangerous-dirty-and-downright-depressing/a662570592.html
Posted by Leavser1
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It’s still our wonderful fair city. Dublin can be heaven with coffee at 11 and a stroll in Stephens Green.
You could walk from Baggott Street to Portobello, passing through Merrion Square, Trinity, Grafton St. and surrounds, Stephen’s Green, George’s Street, up Harcourt and on to the canal, and come away with the opposite impression to the article title.
Are these articles written by people who don’t leave the house? Dublin isn’t dangerous and is still great craic. In some ways it’s better than it was back in the day; better food, pedestrianised areas are a massive success.
Closures of businesses is shite craic and Gov need to get finger out but Dublin is still a quality city in my opinion.
It seems a lot of cities are having similar problems.
One of the solutions seems to be making sure regular people want to spend time outside in the city centre, e.g., encouraging outside restaurant tables, food trucks, integrating social areas like playgrounds, skate parks, etc.
My impression in Dublin City centre at the moment is that there is no reason for people to hang out on areas like Dame st, O’Connell st, etc., unless you’re shady or looking for trouble.
Its not that bad. Better policing would help a lot
I don’t understand how articles can’t have a bit of nuance. Dublin can be both nice and have issues at the same time
Typical Sunday moan on Reddit. Even journos are at it.
Generally it’s fairly clean nor is it generally dangerous and its hardly depressing. It’s a city not a fucking my little pony dream.
Many people now only visiting the city center for work reasons.
We have a planning process that actively encourages the suburbs.
We have a rise of shopping centers on the fringes.
It will eventually kill the city centers after work hours.
It’s not that bad
Scum teenagers ruining our once beautiful city, stopped going into Dublin year’s ago, too dangerous 😢
I do find cities now more depressing the last few years. A lot of shop spaces are empty as rent is too high, everything seems to be more expensive than last time you were there & the streets aren’t really that clean but even in “good times” I never viewed it as thriving, atmospheric & boisterous; more busy & a bit too congested. It’s never been 100% safe as there is a looseness to authority & you always saw incidents cropping up.
Is it ? I’m there now and it’s amazing what’s this liar talking about?
I swear this article wasn’t written by of us of down here in Cork… despite many of us holding such views of the capital city…
>These days, I prefer busy suburban centres, like Ranelagh, Rathmines or Stoneybatter. All offer lively pubs and restaurants with good service in a relaxed atmosphere without the grief. And it’s blissfully easy to get home afterwards.
Have to say there, COVID really revitalised the suburbs. There’s so many great restaurants and cafés in places where there used to be nothing. I know Ranelagh has been like that for about 20 years but many other places are following the same trend.
Looking at the usual crowd actually _defending_ the state of Dublin City Centre it’s not too hard to understand why things are allowed to get so bad in Ireland.
Kawasaki-ku of Kawasaki-shi in Kanagawa Prefecture is a shithole.
Tokyo is in turmoil. Two out of five stars. Would not recommend.
Kip. Wouldn’t go into Dublin in a fit
Was it ever a thriving capital though?
For those outside Dublin and who haven’t visited in a while they’d be terrified reading the headline.
I’ve been in the city 3 times in the past few months. Saturday afternoon/evening drinks, Camden street towards Stephen’s Green and many of the pubs in between, no issues at all, great fun as always. Grafton St. and surrounding areas are as safe as they ever were.
It’s gone very rough around North inner city in places like Parnel St, O’Connell St., Talbot St. We need. much stronger police presence.
It’s no warzone, you just feel a bit more on edge these days.
I’ve lived in a few places, usually the general idea of taking a train into the city to spend some time is universal. I currently live in meath, why on earth would I pay what 20quid return each for a dirty slow train in, stupid money for food, stupid money for pints, (there’s literally nothing else to do or see). Or maybe drop something silly like 100 quid total for one of the shitty family “attractions” like the fuckin waxworks, whilst trying to keep the kids safe from junkies thieves and worse.
Last time we were in with the kids we were walking across a bridge and past two junkies either injecting into their cocks or pleasuring themselves on the quay/boardwalk thing, broad daylight.
Dublin can get bulldozed. Shithole.
“*Back in my day Dublin was full of craic, these days it’s just full of crack*”
Scrotes own the place now. It’s their manor, and everyone knows it. Triple / quadruple the Garda effort in the city.