You must not know Dublin too well so.I have had more hassle on the streets of Dublin than Belfast or Derry combined.
I would be more concerned taking a wrong turn in Dublin than in Belfast.
I have had more hassle on the streets of Dublin than Belfast or Derry combined.
I would be more concerned taking a wrong turn in Dublin than in Belfast.
What rubbish.I Even Baghdad had more charm for the 6 months I was there and felt safer than some spots in Dublin.
What rubbish.
What an insular, opinionated, small-minded, degeneratively dismissively deprecating response!
Call it what you want. Baghdad is a city under heavy military guard. They may not patrol the streets as they used to but they are waiting in the wings when the trouble flairs. Wait until all the troops pull out of Iraq and the militia retake their own localitys again. They know they cant out gun the U.S. & British army so they'll bide their time and then help themselves to the armour and weapons as soon as they're gone. U.S. & U.K. governments will harp on about power being handed over and mass troop withdrawls within the net few months but this is political spin. Foreign influenence and presence will always be in the shadows, similiar to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Statistics have shown and indeed news headlines boast Baghdads crime rate has significantly decreased but this must be taken in to context with the high level it was at and the presence of foreign occupational forces today.
Foreign security contractors operate with impugnity and face little if any repercussions for "protecting themselves".
Click the link for whats happening in Baghdad lately.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7930958.stm
Orga, check the CIA worldfiles site and see which city is regarded as more dangerous.
You might be...er...surprised.
What an insular, opinionated, small-minded, degeneratively dismissively deprecating response! Of course, I retain the height of respect for the person who made the response.
If you had ever been to Baghdad you would understand what I meant!
There is a large section of Northern unionists who are bitterly biggoted against everything papist and against the South in particular. There always was and indeed it is even stronger and more bitter today than it was at the height of the Troubles. The idea of Ian Paisley being First Minister was unthinkable to nationalists and moderate unionists alike until this peace thing broke out.
NI has been more sectarianly divided than ever in recent times. To hear some naive Southern commentators you would think that Belfast had become a latter day San Francisco 60's style love in. There is a mural in the loyalist Ballygomartin which reads "To hell with the Pope and Harrington". Anybody driving a southern reg car in the Shankill is extremely foolhardy.
The political violence has been assuaged by bringing the provos into government and these dissident groups are unlikely to ever gain any momentum especially as they will be starved of the oxygen supply from the Southern Irish establishment which was so instrumental in nurturing and sustaining the Provos.
As long as we continue to separate our schools, our living areas, and celebrate our differences nothing will ever change.
I have never been to Baghdad
but I have been to numerous Arab cities in Africa and the Middle East and the one thing they have in common is massive inequality and an undercurrent of oppression.
to suggest that Baghdad is now, or was when under a brutal dictator, a safer city than Dublin is just plain stupid.
you are the one expressing rather simplistic and absolutist opinions to which the appropriate response was, and remains, “Rubbish”.
As a Northern Catholic I would have to say that this applies EXACTLY on the Nationalist side as well.
I know many people who get annoyed even at the sight of a Union Flag, Unionist politicans talking or Linfield playing football.
We are a sad country that is still riddled with sectarianism which will only improve when we integrate children in school from ages 4 or 5. As long as we continue to separate our schools, our living areas, and celebrate our differences nothing will ever change.
So you comment was so subjective it was meaningless. Now I understand, thanks.I didn't suggest that, you just didn't understand...the comment was that I felt safer there "than some spots in Dublin." Meaning that there are places in Dublin where I have felt very unsafe and that's a comparative judgement.
Your lack of personal insight is staggering. Are you a politician by any chance?So, the converse of your statement is that complicated and equivocating opinions are not rubbish. I think therefore that I'll stick with simple, honest, consistent and straighforward if that's the choice and I'll let you represent the twisting world of shifting opinion.
I agree completely, great post.As a Northern Catholic I would have to say that this applies EXACTLY on the Nationalist side as well.
I know many people who get annoyed even at the sight of a Union Flag, Unionist politicans talking or Linfield playing football.
We are a sad country that is still riddled with sectarianism which will only improve when we integrate children in school from ages 4 or 5. As long as we continue to separate our schools, our living areas, and celebrate our differences nothing will ever change.
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