Cork city has gone to the dogs.

[North end]

Was the rugby on? All tables get booked up by feens that have to bring the oldoll out with them

No rugby on.
Just all the tables were signed off as reserved. This seems to be a regular occurrence, about 8pm ish
Didn’t fancy going outside in the cold.
Had a pint and legged it out for the bus

 

[jimmym]

I often wonder how close any of us are from being like that. How an event in your life could send you down that path.
Abuse, alcoholism, drugs, homelessness, hopelessness, death.
I bet most have stories so horrific, so dehumanising and disturbing, that we in our comfortable lives don't want to hear about.

Crack away lads, keep stamping down on them.
Never mind demanding they get the help they badly need.

Twats......

True, in many cases they were doomed from the start due to parents drinking ,
You are correct in saying for some it could be just an unfortunate event in their lives which could be a tipping point,

 

[markyboy]

The Roches Stores/Debenhams side of Maylor St shuttered up looks worse than what was there before it was knocked years ago

 

[RebelYelll]

I was in town yesterday for the first time in ages. I couldn't get over how run down the place looked. Debenhams looks awful. 6 or 7 homeless lying down at entrance to the Savoy. People sitting around begging. Units boarded up etc. It was all very grim.
A few years ago I used be in every weekend for a stroll around, grab a coffee, have a look in the shops, but it's not a bit enticing to me to go in there anymore unless I've a reason to go in.

 

[Pontipine]

What small but practical steps could be done to improve the city ?

Hire Cillian Murphy to make a bomb and blow the place up.

 

[Browser Brody]

Hire Cillian Murphy to make a bomb and blow the place up.

Cillian Murphy is an actor and not actually a bomb making expert, he was merely playing the part of one in a film.

 

[Iúr]

What small but practical steps could be done to improve the city ?

More Gardai on the streets

 

[Iúr]

I look on with a mixture of disappointment and incredulity when I see tourists walk around the city centre as it is trying to find things to photograph

 

[flyingspud]

Property hoarders, landlords and city councillors hi five one another. City centre slowly dying. Mission almost complete.

 

[jimmym]

Heard something on radio about a girl beaten up on oliver plunkett st yesterday 9.30am, not a guard in sight