A lot of the rhetoric around the safety of the city center has been tremendously short sighted and damaging. There were quotes from a Garda inspector recently, referring to staffing numbers in the city, suggesting they wouldn’t want their mother walking down OP St in the daytime. This is then picked up on doom-mongers such as Michael Moynihan who have done enormous damage to the city’s reputation in the eyes of people who do not visit frequently and think it to be a hotbed and crime.
A lot of the rhetoric around the safety of the city center has been tremendously short sighted and damaging. There were quotes from a Garda inspector recently, referring to staffing numbers in the city, suggesting they wouldn’t want their mother walking down OP St in the daytime. This is then picked up on doom-mongers such as Michael Moynihan who have done enormous damage to the city’s reputation in the eyes of people who do not visit frequently and think it to be a hotbed and crime.
That’s not to say that the city is in a great situation but this will become a self fulfilling prophecy if allowed to continue.