‘Dangerous’ Dublin: Violent attacks on tourists, open drug-taking and a lack of visible policing

O’Connell Street begins the slow, languorous process of winding down somewhere between 6pm and midnight.

In the hours after 6pm, as the Business Post observed on Thursday and Friday last week, tourists, commuters and shoppers begin to filter out of the surrounding streets into buses and hotels and pubs. Delivery riders clown around waiting for orders under the shadow of Daniel O’Connell, and the sun very gradually sets.

What’s left behind, after the majority of ...