Darndale 1985

Darndale 1987

Darndale 2049

Raise your kids right and they’ll stop burning the place down 

I remember playing amateur football one sunday morning in the field behind, during the 1980’s

We played a local team, and holy jayeus the intimidation on the sideline was unreal. The whole place was a war zone, even the dogs walked around in twos for protection.

Good to know that past scrotes were just as bad as present ones.

Darndale has a huge majority of decent people. It improved greatly when the plan of the houses was reversed and the front doors weren’t opening directly onto a shared space.

It was / is a stupidly designed estate and amazingly it won awards.

My opinion is that there has always been too much tolerance of crime and also that humans need privacy and dignity to thrive

Who the fuck designed these godforsaken souless blocks of houses.

When people tell you Dublin is worse than ever there’s a pretty good chance they didn’t live there in the 80s. Dublin really was a grim depressing place.

As a kid in the 80’s I remember nearly every street having that one derelict or burn out house, and they would stay like for the rest of the decade.

I went to one landlord’s kids birthday once, and one of the activities was being let loose on one of his derelict properties. Running around the over grown garden, peeking in the rotting kitchen window. It looked like the previous tenants had just walked out mid meal. It was fascinating.