Would you stab someone? And if you wouldn’t is it because you’re scared of the punishment? You can’t scare nihilists with jail. Give them a country they love and want to protect and they’ll stop stabbing people… except for the percentage of psychopaths that will always exist.

And where you going to put them?! The prisons are already overflowing!!

Stab a bank manager and it’ll get sorted.

They were listening to shm at the time of the stabbings….The devils music it is now known as in Ireland:)

Not really laughing Dec. Being mostly decent in Limerick, we just want to see criminality like this dealt with.
This behaviour isn’t cool anywhere. Limerick is a nice place to see during a Heineken cup game or having a nice pint looking across the Shannon rapids to the castle. Dublin is charming looking out across the bay from Vico Road or people-watching on Grafton street. The glass can be half-full too! Choose as you will.

Come to London you will find rough, when you go abroad you dont go to the rough areas, you know Dublin very well you say, probably alot better than Paris, Berlin, London all have alot more crime, shootings, stabbings, drug problems than your fair city. Dublin is ranked as one of the safest cities in the world. Fact.

http://www.squidoo.com/safest-countries-in-the-world

And you will find many more websites with Facts that Dublin is one of the safest cities in the world, and Ireland one of the safest countries in the WORLD.

@mark Larson

There are 9 million people in London, of course the crime rate is higher but you can still walk down regent st, Piccadilly circus or covent garden and you will not see as many junkies or beggars as you will see on o’connell st and you will not find unsafe streets anywhere in central London in the middle of the day. That is a fact

Gerard crime rates across the world are by per capita of 100,000 inhabitants. So it does not matter if a city has 1 million people or 10 million. Obviously the more people you will get more crime. I live in central London just off Regent street and i know this city very well. About 10 years ago Piccadilly Circus had many junkies, crack heads hanging around the area mainly because the meth clinics where in that area. They moved all of the clinics out of central London to Kings X, Harlesden, Bow, Bermondsey. It cleaned the area up alot but just moved it on. I believe Dublin today has the same problem as London 10 years ago, alot of clinics in a the same area. They need to spread them out across the city. You will then find Central Dublin alot safer. And when you say you will not find unsafe streets anywhere in central London in the middle of the day, i Disagree with you, Soho right in the centre is bad with crack heads, Rupert street, parts of Chinatown, Charring X road, i could go on.

As for Begging in the city, London is rife with them, all the areas you mentioned are the hotspots for them. You must have blinkers on when you travel.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051482/Child-beggars-young-making-100-000-year-gypsy-gangs.html

http://golondon.about.com/od/personalsafety/qt/beggars.htm

Debbie
Thankfully Limericks issues have been over exaggerated over the years and it isn’t nearly as bad as people like you think it is, thank you however for assosiating it with a dublin crime issue again, it does offer a false sence of security to those who believe it is worse elswhere, I have no idea how bad it is in Dublin, I would guess however, from experience,it is not as bad as people make it out to be,

Ah now, come on Ted

Yeah, that’s wildly delusional… Dublin is a bit rough, but nothing compared to hundreds of other places around the world… from Chicago to Cape Town…

I would never recommend visiting Waterford to anyone either.

Have you travelled much?

Haha, I love Waterford but only because it reminds me of a smaller version of Dublin! :)

Agreed Chris but having strong laws and more guards just serves to strengthen the front end of law enforcement. In the back end, our judicial system hands down suspended sentences by default with no real consequence being experienced by criminals. Most of these criminals also have previous convictions in the double digits. It’s madness!

The problem with that logic Michael is that, you’d have to explain the rise of crime with a decrease in the strength of laws, length of sentences, etc…. no such correlation exists.

Like I said, more Gards would help prevent crime, obviously, but you can’t scare people willing to carry knives and kill people by increasing sentences… they care as little about themselves as the people they’re stabbing…

And btw, I do think some sentencing in Ireland is way too lenient, but if you look at the US, where punishment is much more strict AND crime is worse in many places, it shows that the correlation is as causal and the “tough on criminals” brigade always portrays it to be.

More Gards though, yes, but tell me where the money is gonna come from or it’s just a quaint theory.

I’m sorry but poverty is not an excuse for stabbing people. To suggest that implies that all poor people do not raise their children well

Celtic Lady you’re confusing an “excuse” with an explanation.

Poverty goes up, crime goes up.

You also seem to be the one jumping to the conclusion that it’s because criminal’s parents are poor… maybe there’s a correlation, but I’d guess there’s a much bigger correlation between nihilism caused by the depression of a dead-end life and violence.

People literally don’t care. When they have a stake in the community, they tend to care more… draw your own conclusions.

One thing is certain, a lessening of sentences didn’t cause the crime, a strengthening of them won’t stop it.