Is Dublin a 'dirty' city? How can it be improved? | Newstalk

[@AbcdEfgh-zp1sn]

I visited dublin last year. I've been to cities all over the world... dublin is a disgrace it's absolutely filthy . Also feels very unsafe

[@danieloconnell3013]

I work between Grafton St and Dame St. It’s filthy and full of homeless people and tents. Open drug taking. Garbage bags everywhere. Derelict buildings. Friend of mine was attacked at an ATM (on Baggot street) recently and suffered brain damage as a result of the attack. Horrible. I’m just back from Lisbon. It’s beautiful and clean. Well policed. Buildings are beautiful. Feels safe. We are so so so far behind. And yet we are way way way more expensive. How do we even start to fix all these problems.

[@Tzahx_]

For a start I’d say more garda around but we don’t have enough garda in the force may of them dropping out, but according to the goverment it’s not a problem for any longer, just generally have more cleaners around town cleaning up in the mornings, it’s funny all Goverment buildings are very clean

[@nikiwoodward3033]

Dublin council 1.5 billion a year. Wheres the money going? Glass and rubbish everywhere but its all clean around the Dail.

[@Tzahx_]

Shows you they don’t care even for the tourists doesnt it? Maybe it’ll take tourists stopping coming in to wake them up, 1 billion lost in revenue for tourism because of lack hotels🤮

[@PB111627]

Graffiti everywhere also nobody prosecuted. City is an open asylum.

[@TheIrishMegaphone]

She declared a litter emergency! Not once has she declared what has done or what she is going to do. All total abstract nonsense. Arriving to an interview dressed in such a manner speaks volumes. Not a serious person.

[@Raptor2607]

Gypo beggars everywhere hounding u for money

[@e2theoc]

Aswell as the rubbish, the pavement are a disgusting patchwork of badly tarmacced and stone paths covered in cracks. The paving is so terrible, I have turned my ankle many times. So even if you clean the streets theres still in a shocking state with chewing gum all over. Its a travesty that O'Connell bridge is just a tarmac pavement.... ZERO creative vision in this depressing city. Like lipstick on a pig.

[@KevinMcAllisterstherapist]

The Gardaí aren't in the city because they can't afford to live there! Its an absolute slap in the face that this government celebrates a budget surplus when the country is crying out for investment. Build homes, build hospitals, improve public transport. They're not being asked to reinvent the wheel. Unfortunately it would appear that effective governing is bad for business.

[@Tzahx_]

They don’t care that’s the problem

[@obrieneoghan]

We, the citizens should also take responsibility for the state of our city. Not just the authorities.

[@punkeasy]

So you want us to pay them the extortionate amount of tax we do, and do their work for them. Have a bit of cop on would ya!

[@jameskeane9721]

I live in Madrid and there is a bin on every lamppost. There are council workers and bin men who do several runs to clean each neighborhood daily. The city is clean and well maintained and much bigger than Dublin.

[@gallowglass2630]

I was up in dublin on sunday and its seems very simple bins i found it very hard to find a place to put a used coffeee cup.

[@punkeasy]

"A much more empowered city council" When you here a green talk about power, you know quite well they mean the power to tax the people. Tax after Tax is all this party knows. Absolute political pioson.

[@Tzahx_]

3GS they are called

[@NAME97531]

Im constantly reporting illegal dumping on a main route to Kilkenny City. More investment, cctv, large fines, prison sentences for regular offenders. Laws needed for commercial haulage e.g. tarpaulins/safety nets must be used on trailors. On another note, benefit state must stop. This is not the solution. Also, bring back the borough councils.

[@Morningstar-xz5bl]

Fentynal will bring Dublin to a whole new level with tent cities😂😂😂😂

[@Dubforlife.]

Nothing funny about that. You a bogger?

[@leoobroin3804]

I thought there is a Mayor of Dublin. What do they actually do?

[@dzadzadza1]

Once you hear "holistic approach" to a question on litter issues you know you are goosed. Nothing will change.

[@Shamo-yc4vy]

Dublin - the new Detroit

[@raygreen5926]

There is still a huge gap across from the Gresham Hotel. This area has still no being developed after all these years. O' Connell Street is the only boulevard in Ireland 💀🚔💀

[@tomgreene1843]

How is it the boy scouts can leave a site clean after their jamborees ?

[@markfairman162]

More people need to learn from the boy scouts and pick up after themselves. Leave places how they found them or better.

[@jasonodonnell7189]

Pathetic answers / Decades before Dublins Right ready clean

[@PatDonlon4711]

In Dublin all through the 80s and 90s back then it was big heavy traffic going through the city, that was solved eventually with the Tunnell, now it's congestion homeless and refugees...

[@PatDonlon4711]

Yes! There is a disconnect between local authorities and the people who live within the city limits...

[@PatDonlon4711]

O Connell bridge needs to be upgraded, it is dull and uninteresting

[@PB111627]

Every tree near me many 40 years old and not far from Garden of Remembrance is about to be clear felled for new Social Housing.

[@PatDonlon4711]

More planting of trees in the city centre and more pedestrianized...

[@moneybags-s4i]

Seagulls are a big problem nearly everywhere... there's way too many of them!

[@Jen-lg4hp]

The seagulls wouldn't come inland if the people weren't such dirty pigs dropping food litter and fast food cartons everywhere!

[@markfairman162]

Too much junk food on the ground and in bins for them to eat.

[@MrCornbread79]

Dublin was a beautiful city but due to goverment its been let go down the toilet.if you go to any european capital there is rubbish collectios going on during the night public and private companies and also city council street cleaning its not difficult to organise this surely

[@radiohill]

I don't understand why people allow plants to sprout out of the sides and tops of buildings. It makes things look so abandoned. Then again there are so many derelict buildings, especially in Dublin 8 city center.

[@thomasmooney4321]

Romas everywhere its a kip

[@Tzahx_]

If your talking about cities in Europe Dublin is a Kip with all the rubbish being left everywhere, need to sort it out

[@MrCornbread79]

Janet is a joke but infairness at least she came on and faces the hard questions. Regarding the drug dealing it seems the council and the Police (garda) are afraid to confront the gangs simple as.

[@lorrainevart8827]

All the reasons mentioned in this video apply to all European cities but they seem to have a better handle on it. The Irish solution to problems is to have another meeting to discuss it

[@irelandsown6466]

Holistic , empowered, 🙄 buzz words .

[@murphypaschal]

The Irish and cleanliness are two odd bedfellows. Aesthetics are just not in our DNA. It wasn't that long ago when slums were everywhere to be found in Dublin. We do not have the culture of looking after and being proud of where we live.

[@PB111627]

Horner? What is happening to our mature trees? A line of mature trees near Black Church about to be clear felled! All useless empty talk.

[@nojabhere]

24.07 of Waffle

[@PatDonlon4711]

Pigeons are also a big problem

[@PB111627]

You must mean Seagulls!

[@jamesfagan7823]

Dakley needs a clean up funnelling all the cash out to the off shore accounts must be back breaking stuff

[@ivanhunter3907]

Cut the social welfare and the situate will fix its self. Cllr are only putting a plaster on a cut ..

[@guy4469]

type in the top 10 most violant citys in europe dublin 1 malmo2 and on and on .

[@PatDonlon4711]

Dublin is a great city but awareness of our environment is important, education is key and modernization of public services...

[@declancooney1029]

IT'S A S*** HOLE

[@philsophkenny]

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