Absolutely shocking the attack. Tbh The top of Talbot Street was always a bit shady, I remember I had to work there for a year and I fuckin shit myself especially when I had to lock up the shop, that's a good few years ago. I use to have a sigh of relief when I'd hit O'Connell street, even though that's not much better, but there was more people about and a definite Gardai presence, not that the scum bags are afraid of the Guards. I try not going down there if I can help it, sometimes I have to to cut through to the stations or if I need to get a bus northside, I do be nearly running through it or it means taking the long way round by the quays.
Abbey Street is a disaster too. I don't get the luas there anymore, so many drunk, druggies looking for money, they hound you like nobody's business, even though I'm from Dublin and have a strong accent I always make sure to emphasise it, these arseholes are so racist that when they hear your accent they start fawning all over you, telling you they love Dublin people.
Our minister's have no clue about the City Centre, for donkey's years there's always been this behaviour, the drugs are rife, the attacts are common and there's so many muggings that no one hears of. They sit in their fancy cars, they're not standing queueing for public transport or going into a shop and getting harassed by the scum. You can't take out a smoke cos they're like flies around shite looking for one, you don't dare take out your phone, you wrap your bag around you a million times. There's no guards on the streets anymore. All we hear is recruitment and money being invested but they're saying that a long time.