As someone who has lived and worked in both Belfast and Dublin for a number of years I can say that Belfast city centre definitely feels much safer than Dublin and has a far less evident drug problem than Dublin would have.
Not sure if it's cleaned up in the past 5/6 years but the amount of heroin addicts you'd see on O'Connell Street in Dublin was scary.
Depends where you go in Belfast Angelo.
Nobody really has any reason to go up past where the O'Neills shop is now in Belfast as there is nothing....but take a walk up that North Street area you'll see all you want. I walked past ones doing presumably heroin a few years ago, serious chemically smell off it thankfully they seemed more worried about me seeing them, than vice versa.
O'Connell Street....is a bit busier, it has the sidestreets where there is a wee bit happening....unfortunately you would be exposed to them a little bit more. Although alot of trouble now seems to be around that Sherriff Street area. Haven't been in Dublin City for awhile obviously.
It's a very sad situation to be comparing both cities but I get the point on Dublin purely because it is a bit closer to 'real life'. We might unfortunately see a bigger issue in Belfast when the University Buildings are all done and everything going up in that part of Belfast.
This was Main Street taking the piss, he wouldn't be seen dead up around the rough parts of Dublin or Belfast for that matter, so hasn't a clue.. Belfast is full of drunks and drug users at the minute because there is no one else about, they seem to have a free run at it for the time being, the cops are doing their best in fairness but the numbers are growing.
I've noticed (and I'm not taking the piss) a few southern accents and there is no doubt that goes both ways .
Where I am in the center there are plenty, a good hose wouldn't go a miss, and there are nearly as many girls as fellas, and they fight like feck!
Like I say a good hosing wouldn't go a miss
