All the featured areas shown had social housing, health board housing plus shared ownership and then some private dwellings. It only re enforced my opinion about living or investing within an area that contains any of the first three. Don’t do it.
They could have run this programme all night; we have so many bad areas in Dublin. But also up and coming areas around the Country that make Coolock look like a playground.
For me Drogheda, Dundalk, Balbriggan are total dumps, but not on par with Finglas, Mulhuddart or Tallaght just yet.
If you really look at a map of Dublin and study each area, you would see that we do not have that many desirable areas.
But the root cause of the problem is not to just put more Gardai on the ground, it needs to be zero tolerance and policies that involves the community. With the upsurge of the Celtic Tiger (for some) and the breakdown of community's and religion in this country it’s no wonder we have an increasing crime rate. We need to study crime and Anti Social Behaviour, we need tougher policing, stricter penalties, but if so we will need more prisons. Countries that have shown a reduction in crime rates have seen a high increase in the % of interns within their prisons, so are we prepared to pay for this?
