Taoiseach and Ministers meet with North Inner City Community Coalition
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Taoiseach and Ministers meet with North Inner City Community Coalition
Today, the Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Minister Helen McEntee, Minister Paschal Donohoe, Minister of State James Browne and Senator Mary Fitzpatrick met with members of the North Inner City Community Coalition to discuss recent violent incidents in the area.
The meeting also offered an opportunity for the local community to outline their concerns and put forward a number of ideas to address the current situation.
“I extend my deepest sympathies to all those impacted by the shocking incidents which have taken place in Dublin in recent weeks. This sort of behaviour cannot continue, and I know that the Minister for Justice and Garda Commissioner have been meeting this week to discuss a plan to tackle these recent incidents.
Dublin s Q102 By Kevin O Mahony There are calls for the government to set-up a national centre of expertise on violence.
A community rep for the North East Inner City says it would help to combat knife crime in the area.
It’s after a spate of weapons attacks there, including the death of a teenage boy in East Wall last week.
Noel Wardick is the CEO of Dublin City Community Co-Op.
He explains the benefits of a violence expertise centre: All parties, the police, the government and relevant stakeholders put in the resources to develop expertise on violence. A national centre of expertise on violence so that all resources can be assigned to addressing the underlying causes, understanding why violence happens and then putting a concerted effort into addressing those causes, coming up with solutions and testing solutions.
Drug-related intimidation is now so rampant in Dublin’s north-east inner city that more than 20pc of people surveyed there have experienced it directly, according to a new report released today.
Violence, threats of harm, vandalism and intimidation are being used not only on people with drug debts and their family members, but anyone even suspected of reporting drug dealing in their area.
The report reveals that over 80pc of respondents to an online survey aimed at those living or working in the area, which encompasses Summerhill, Ballybough, Mountjoy Square, Parnell Street and Gardiner Street, as well as areas of the Docklands, were aware of drug-related intimidation as an issue in their community.
Reasons for intimidation included to pressurise payment of a debt or a loved oneâs debt; to âdisciplineâ a person for âinterferingâ in a dealerâs activities by reporting incidents, or for even being suspected of informing or ârattingâ to authorities.
Targeted
A focus group participant recalled a resident being targeted after reporting antisocial behaviour associated with drug dealing.
âThey came back the next day and smashed every one of her windows because the police was called because they were on the corner selling all that day and they were fighting. she had enough of it and she rang the police. The next day, every one of her windows was put in.â
Drug-related intimidation is now so rampant in Dublin’s north-east inner city that more than 20pc of people surveyed there have experienced it directly, according to a new report released today.
Violence, threats of harm, vandalism and intimidation are being used not only on people with drug debts and their family members, but anyone even suspected of reporting drug dealing in their area.
The report reveals that over 80pc of respondents to an online survey aimed at those living or working in the area, which encompasses Summerhill, Ballybough, Mountjoy Square, Parnell Street and Gardiner Street, as well as areas of the Docklands, were aware of drug-related intimidation as an issue in their community.