Kieran Cuddihy

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You will no doubt at this stage be well aware of the story of that 11-year-old who got their hands on a firearm that they found in a bush in Ballymun yesterday.

They discharged the weapon and remarkably, nobody was...

and nobody was hurt, but it has shone a light again on issues around criminality, right down to antisocial behaviour, not just in Ballymun, but in deprived areas of this country, right across the land.

Rebecca is on the line.

Rebecca, thanks a million for chatting to us.

You live near where this gun was actually found, is that right?

What's going on in Ballymun?

So Rebecca, paint a picture for me now, for people who may be

are listening to this and they might drive through Ballymun a couple of times a year going in and out to Croke Park or something like that or visiting relatives and their experience of it will just be driving down along the Ballymun Road through a lot of what is nice, relatively nice-looking developments on either side, you know, past the pool or the New Garda station and right down towards Glasnevin and into town.

What's the reality?

But what's in Glastonheaven that's not in Ballymun?

And,

the open smoking of weed, how long has that been?

On some level, maybe it's been going on for a long time, but has it gotten worse?

I'm just thinking of how worse it's gotten in other parts of the country when you're walking down main streets and you get a bang of weed.

But are those people, as you say, who need to cop on, are they the victims of, you know, social deprivation?