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Good afternoon. You are very welcome to LiveLine. 51551 is the text number. You can email me, LiveLine at rte.ie, or as always, give me a call on 0818 715 815. And as you'll no doubt be well aware of at this stage, a 21-year-old man was stabbed to death over the weekend in Dublin city centre, Caim Balogan, was his name and details still emerging as to what happened. But it was after attending a late night concert on Grafton Street when the incident occurred and a murder investigation is underway and a bystander as well sustained stab wounds during that attack in which Balagan was stabbed several times, including in the chest. Whenever anything like this happens, people get in touch with us here on LiveLine.
They get in touch through all the different numbers and email addresses and everything I read out. People get in touch by WhatsApp as well, and they send in voice notes. 087 484 8888, I should say, is that WhatsApp number. But Adriano is one of those who got in touch and sent us a voice note. He lives on Parliament Street in Dublin city centre. And he said he's noticed an increase in public order offences in the last few months.
I've been living in Dublin for about four and a half years. I'm originally from Sao Paulo and I moved here after seven years living in Berlin. I love Dublin, even the corners that a lot of Irish people avoid, like Temple Bar. So much so that last year I bought an apartment in Parliament Street. It's still culturally richer than most people would think. Now, I have to say for the past six months or so, public order around here has been going steadily downhill. Let's say in the area between Christ Church and Trinity and then Cabin Street and the leafy in that rectangle, you'd be lucky to see two guards walking around at any time today. And then shops are struggling as well. Shops have been attacked frequently, like Rumi Cafe in Essex Street.
They were broken into twice in only a few months. And that's just around the corner from Dublin City Council. That should be looking after our safety. For instance, in the last three months, we've been seeing people smoking crack pipes in broad daylight, even in Parliament Street, because they know there's no guards around. And don't take me wrong, there's always been drug use around that area, but these guys just hide to do it and now they know they don't need to. Another example, just this Saturday, I witnessed a man, completely out of his faculties, push a homeless woman And I know she's homeless because I see her around a lot. She pushed her against the wall. She hit her head and fell to the floor.
And then he went on to spread everything that was inside her bags onto the floor and steal her things. And all of this happened just off George Street next to the George.
What recent incident highlighted the rise in stabbing injuries in Dublin?
And now, as everyone knows at this point, someone just got stabbed near Stephens Green. If public power doesn't wake up, this will keep happening, because for us who live there, we are seeing it increasing every single day. The residents call the police once a week, so at least this turns into statistics, otherwise it's just invisible, but they always arrive too late, because there isn't enough guards around. I generally don't think this is a problem that will be solved only by policing the area. You need sports programs, cultural programs, things that bring social cohesion. But in the short term, the chaos needs to be controlled. Otherwise, more people will end up hurt.
That's what Adriano had to say on the WhatsApp on 0874848888. He mentioned statistics. I don't know if you saw it. There was a brilliant, brilliant breakdown of crime rates by Garda Station and the Irish Independent yesterday. And what they showed flies in the face of people who I know are going to get in touch and say the whole country's gone to hell in a handbasket. It hasn't really, despite how people feel.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:12
2
What recent incident highlighted the rise in stabbing injuries in Dublin?
3:12–7:26
3
How do residents perceive the increase in public order offences?
7:26–17:56
4
What statistics reveal about crime rates in Dublin's Garda Stations?
17:56–23:03
5
How has the perception of safety in Dublin changed for locals?
23:03–44:46