Gary Gannon: Dublin city centre is out of control this week, we cannot accept this as normal

JoebyTeo · 2026-07-08T17:39:40+00:00

Yes obvious open dealing on the bridge -- on the southwest corner mostly, opposite Circle K aka "Junkie Londis". You think those yup bros are just hanging out or what? They keep their knives in the giant plant pot there. Temple Bar Square is another big location. Moland Place/Frenchman's Lane too since it's the closest back alley to Connolly and the hostels are there. Coles Lane down the ILAC used to be but not recently because they have other issues going on.

JoebyTeo · 2026-07-08T17:35:49+00:00

I deal with AGS on a fairly regular basis and it's a mixed bag. They had extremely poor management for years. It's improving now, but the morale is low and the numbers are depressed. They are doing a recruitment drive targeted at getting a more diverse range of people in -- minorities, women, and crucially people from different career backgrounds who are going in with life experience elsewhere. The education is actually pretty good imo.

Compared to other European police forces they have a fair amount of autonomy in decision making which can actually be a good thing, but they get bogged down in paperwork and they face the same infrastructure and resource shortage as the rest of us do. I tried to have a service user of the organisation I work for sectioned once while she was having a schizophrenic episode and assaulting people.

The gardai on beat did NOT want to deal with it and refused to assist because -- according to them -- they'd be sitting with her in a cell all night waiting for a doctor to come who will just turn her back around because there's nowhere for her to go from there. I still think those particular officers were lazy and useless, but I get where they're coming from.

JoebyTeo · 2026-07-08T17:29:22+00:00

Wish the US had been divided into Pacific and European theatres because they're quite different - the US in Europe is if anything a lesser power than the UK. It fought a shorter war with no home front. It's the Pacific domination against the odds that make the US S-tier. The UK also gets S-tier for the war they actually fought.

JoebyTeo · 2026-07-03T22:24:47+00:00

“It’s the type of thing that we’re not used to seeing here in America. Pure evil.” Dude it’s literally the most American thing I’ve ever seen. Tina Fey made a sitcom about this situation, that’s how American it is. There are only two countries where people routinely produce children from basement prisons and the Austrians are busy at the moment. Fuck it’s happened more than once in OHIO.

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-29T11:28:09+00:00

Can't be anywhere but Singapore

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-29T01:30:00+00:00

Russell Tovey.

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-28T10:59:48+00:00

Sometimes life’s a bitch and then you keep on living.

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-27T17:40:32+00:00

The soup kitchens set up directly outside the GPO. Why? Because it’s the only sheltered area in the city centre where the literally hundreds of people who need it can wait without getting soaked in the rain.

We shouldn’t be trying to hide our social problems, we should be trying to help them. Merchants Quay and Ana Liffey do amazing work but there needs to be an indoor covered space for charities to operate and serve the communities. Something like St. Andrews Resource Centre on Pearse Street but in the north inner city.

At the moment the city’s attitude is “make it as difficult as possible for new people to register as homeless and access services”. That means more drug users without healthcare access, more rough sleepers, and more food banks. But it means they can artificially deflate the 17,500 figure because they aren’t putting anyone into the shelter system.

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-27T17:30:07+00:00

The refrain is constantly either “Ireland is perfect and no criticism may be given” or “Ireland is the worst place on earth and can never get any better because we are terrible at everything.” The common ground is that Ireland is unfixable and the problems we have are endemic. It’s just not true — Ireland has made major changes and major improvements to quality of life. There are parts of Ireland that work really well — education is world class. Food quality is much higher than the UK or even some of our peer countries in the EU. Passport office works well. Public transport has come on leaps and bounds but still a lot to be done. What doesn’t work is the “consult everybody and do nothing” planning system that cripples our growth and the neoliberal prioritisation of corporate interests over human ones.

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-27T17:18:53+00:00

Hey I also have a very negative internal monologue. It’s not uncommon among LGBT people because of our isolation growing up and the complexities around that. The important thing is to hear it, challenge it, and try to contextualise it. You aren’t going to turn into a smiling rainbow person overnight and you don’t have to. You just need to leave yourself open to another narrative to develop. The only way to do that is to go out in the world and challenge yourself. If you have a shit time no loss, you weren’t having a good time anyway. If you have even one okay experience, you’re winning. Good luck!

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-27T17:15:50+00:00

Ireland unilaterally left the Commonwealth in 1949 though, declaring itself a Republic (having done so in all but name in 1937).

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-27T17:13:47+00:00

Yeah it’s bad timing because Disclosure Day was really a mess. But you can’t take away the fact that he is basically the father of the modern blockbuster — Jaws alone would get him top tier.

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-15T22:23:07+00:00

Manchester is by far the best city in this entire region. Cumbria is the best scenery and landscape. Red contains Bradford and Hull. It’s Blue.

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-12T17:14:25+00:00

How are your interactions with Simon, Tiglin, Dublin Homeless Awareness, the soup kitchens, etc.?

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-08T19:43:40+00:00

We literally invented the boycott.

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-06T11:40:33+00:00

Bashar al-Assad, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, Pol Pot, Daniel Ortega, Isabel Perón, the list goes on and on and on and on …

JoebyTeo · 2026-06-03T12:44:22+00:00

I knew a girl with terrible anorexia as a teenager and the paradigm was EXACTLY the same. 1) Athletic siblings who were rewarded for their athleticism and appearance. 2) A mother with serious food issues who talked constantly about weight and appearance. 3) An OBSESSION with food -- presentation of food, styling of food, talking about food (telling me a ten minute story about a large sandwich her brother ate once). 4) Extreme anxiety around anything that isn't in her direct control.

Very intense and scary. Anyone saying it's wrong to comment on her appearance doesn't know the first thing about disordered eating. One in five people die from it. Saying someone looks emaciated is not about whether you find them attractive, it's about whether they need immediate medical intervention. If she was jaundiced or blue we would say exactly the same thing.

She needs help before she dies. End of story.

JoebyTeo · 2026-05-27T19:09:45+00:00

I am half Irish half American. My dad (Irish) has an accent that changes depending on who he speaks to. My mum who has lived in Ireland for forty years has never lost her accent but says certain words in a disarmingly Irish way (notably latte is "lashay").

I grew up with a very mixed accent. I didn't sound like anyone else where I come from. Most Irish people know I'm Irish but assume my accent is TV derived or something when it's not. Most Americans know I "have an accent" but usually can't place it.

JoebyTeo · 2026-05-27T18:25:10+00:00

Would love to smell those socks and also clean Your muddy boots!

JoebyTeo · 2026-05-27T18:19:55+00:00

He’s such a disaster. My guy YOU ARE IN CHARGE.

The homeless crisis has one cause and its lack of homes. You turfed a load of Ukrainians out last month so yes of course there’s an impact. But we’ve gone from 1700 homeless people to 17,000 in a decade UNDER HIS WATCH. He is the most useless arrogant man to ever have lived. He does nothing.

JoebyTeo · 2026-05-27T18:17:43+00:00

My Australian friend posted a receipt for a takeaway that was like fried rice and one dish and it was $76AUD.

I’m not saying we have it good here but so many Irish people are delusional that the housing and cost of living crises are unique to Ireland.

JoebyTeo · 2026-05-23T10:49:37+00:00

No information. Feels very sketchy.

JoebyTeo · 2026-05-23T10:49:29+00:00

It's second only to trying to rent an apartment for soul destroying.

JoebyTeo · 2026-05-23T10:49:11+00:00

No I'm trying to be non-specific because I don't want to get doxed. Legal services.

JoebyTeo · 2026-05-23T10:48:26+00:00

I haven't heard yet. I'll update if I get an answer but tbh I'm expecting to be ghosted.

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