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The Daily PollLAST NIGHT WAS a busy night for emergency services in Dublin.
One 21-year-old man was fatally stabbed at flats in the south inner city, while two others are in a critical condition after separate knife attacks.
This is on top of the hundreds of 999 calls received, the almost two hundred fires battled, and the 30 assaults attended.
While it was a quiet night in many other parts of the country, it is a night where anti-social behaviour – be it involving alcohol, fireworks, or bonfires – is common.
We want to know about your experience: Do you feel safe in your local area during Halloween?
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Very dangerous night for delivery drivers & taxis or anyone forced to go into certain areas
HINT: Not upper class areas.
Hint: avoid greens, forests, lane ways & carparks. whether it be jobstown or Dalkey I wouldn’t go near any groups of teens. my friend doing deliveries last night got fireworks aimed at his car near bushy park, rathfarnham. what class would you put that area?
Vote Left the vast majority of these issues arrise in so called working class areas where parenting is apparently optional and there is a high percentage of single mothers. Firefighters are not being assaulted in Foxrock or Malahide for instance.
What “certain areas” were you referring to in your original comment?
Oh the single mothers who are deserted by the men that make them pregnant in a country with no access to abortion? Those ones are always to blame sure. Idiot.
My analysis will probably be censored by the journal as single mothers are a protected species around here.
You’re spot on wrath .
Some meal ticket ! Same mentality as yourself had similar women consigned to mother & baby homes, I find it hilarious when guys use these as matter of fact ballocksoligy.
Some seriously shameless tabloid sensationalism clickbait by the journo today.
If I were to indulge in the assumption that crime is higher in poorer areas the I must also indulge as to why that is the case and that I’m afraid is too long a discussion to be writing down, and on a Sunday.
have to say my area was very quiet….very few bangers i think i heard 1 maybe 2 that was it and i live in an estate
“the men that make them pregnant”
Yeah, they’re not actors in their own lives, merely acted upon :’(
Because “access to abortion” would make our streets so much safer….jesus wept…
What is this sensationalist nonsense? Is this the journal or the daily star?
Always assumed this site ran at a tabloid standard anyway? more about the clicks than the full story. shifting headlines, attractive comments section, Hugh o oconnells one sided articles & the fact they see Young Fine Gael power struggles as “exclusive” when in fact YFG have 0 influence & 0 power, it is a CV builder for selfish careerists.
So what brings you here?
Fear, fear, fear….it’s like a commodity these days, its why nearly every top show on t.v. is a crime show, why 90% of news bulletins in America are all about crime, its why they don’t lock up violent criminals and why they keep the drug trade illegal so it’s festers crime gangs and crime waves….this is how our consumer society exists, fear creates unhappy people, unhappy people buy crap, citizens rely on the State to keep them safe and so on and on….You should read up on Edward Bernays and others to know that society is exactly the way it was designed to be.
One example….the wholesale introduction of hard drugs into black neighbourhoods across the United States came soon after the civil rights movement began across America….instead of them taking on the State, they soon began to turn on each other and crime became rampant.
I like debate, journal commenters like debate. its good to discuss and reflect on issues/stances
Would you consider yourself a master debater?
Walked around with my 2 and 3 year old in the city centre , they had a great time
Which city?
Beautiful Dublin
That’s an oxymoron if I ever heard one
Dublin is a beautiful city, its just ravaged by jypsies and junkies on a daily basis!
Our kids went trick or treating, went to the bonfire, watched fireworks and came home exhausted. We had some great trick or treaters with some imaginatively dressed parents. No trouble what so ever. Great night!
I made up 20 goodie bags and only 2 trick or treaters called, they even apologised for calling so late…it was 8 o’clock. Now I’m stuck with 18 bags of liquorice, chocolate and popping candy. Guess I’ll either be 20 stone or covered in zits on Monday.
Molly, Christmas isn’t far away, can always use them then?
Oh Michael so naive and sweet of you to think liquorice, chocolate and popping candy would last untouched in my gaff for two months :)
Sad to see that around 20% of respondents to this survey didn’t feel safe in their area this Halloween. As I have said before, the problem / solution here has got absolutely nothing to do with Halloween. The problem lies with the justice system in Ireland. I guarantee you that many of those assaulting firemen / attacking ambulances / stabbing / engaging in dangerous antisocial behaviour are no strangers to the gardai or the courts system.
When you operate a system that turns repeat offenders out into society, they will wreak havoc at every opportunity. For these people, Halloween represents a golden opportunity to hijack a family fun event and to make it misery for their neighbours and community.
No trouble with my area, any trouble maker ends up in the pot lol.
“Do you feel safe in your area at Halloween….or is it relatively quiet?”
Is relative quiet scary??
I think this poll is relative to where you live. As an example, I live in West Cork where thankfully Halloween is still a fantastic night for children. It is a night to celebrate, not fear. I am also thankfull that our teenagers are more preoccupied with making sure the little kids have a great night and are not out stabbing and drinking.
I was thinking the same. I live in rural Offaly where Halloween basically doesnt exist. Havent had one trick-or-treater in 8 years. However, when I lived in Dublin as a kid it was a different situation. You did have to be more careful and there were dangers that dont exist in the country, and maybe people there don’t feel safe now. It does depend on your area.
I feel that the so çalled media have a lot to answer for on this type of thing they tell us of all the bad that happens but for the majority of people nothing really ever happens OK I get it that people feel the need to know what’s going on in their area but no need to scare people into thinking they are in danger the whole time .
I feel very safe and secure in my neighbourhood, expect for when I watch a scary movie and turn off the light and make a mad dash for the bed, trying to avoid any ghosts and ghoulies and close my eyes quickly as I jump for the bed.
It’s pretty hairy but not as bad as Paddy’s Day.
Drink???
I did till I watched a house burn down in a matter of minutes allegedly down to a firework being thrown in an open window ..someone’s life turned upside down in a matter of minutes because of a thug
Sad to see Halloween bringing about the wanton destruction of a local historic building.
Where was that?
All those incidents were in Dublin. The rest of the country is reasonably well behaved, with decent citizens, who were raised properly.
Michael , there is a lot of decent citizens who were raised well and live in Dublin
My work mate car was vandalised and burnt to ashes with kids last night …
It was very quiet past few years , right way to have it, what went in dublin last night was nothing but thugs out loose for the night
Hardly feel safe any day……….never mind Halloween
It feels like any other night nowadays. Gardai have gotten much sharper around preventing bonfires, street drinking and the general sale of fireworks. About 10 years ago it felt like they didn’t care and anything went.
Bears dont pay water charges….
Do bears s#it in the woods
They have to to avoid the water charges
I pay the Homer tax. Let the bears pay the bear tax.
Boo
Why can’t we just pay the likes of NKRP/China/Russia or Thailand, to jail our thugs and it’d be cheaper than the 5 star treatment they get here?
Yes it is because the Hills have eyes, lol.
Bit of an oul moral panic being stoked by the journal, I’d say
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