By: resident

resident — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:57:16 +0000

Well said, I grew up in Ballyfermot but now live on this hell of a road. Worse thing I ever done was move from good neighbours in Ballyfermot six years ago to a road controlled by a gang of youths and their parents living to the centre of the road.
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By: helen walsh

helen walsh — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:45:17 +0000

I must respond to your comment about Ballyfermot
“If you are moving to Dublin I would not recommend Ballyfermot as a good place to live. The crime rate is too high, and the police presence is too low. Still the houses in the area sell usally for more the €250,000 ”
Firstly, there are many other areas around the city that are far more troublesome than Ballyfermot. Ballyfermot has a good community spirit, it alway had and it has to this day. There is a very good sense of community support from the Gardai who liase with many community groups within the area.During the Celtic Tiger era houses in Ballyfermot were very sought after, espicially house along the Kylemore Road and the main Ballyfermot Road, top to bottom. To make a single comparison with a so called respectable private housing estate called Saint Johns Park West in Clondalkin where many residents were forced out of their homes because of damage to property on a daily and nightly scale, assault and racial abuse by fellow neighbours, Ballyfermot with all its faults cannot boast this sort of inhumane treatment to neighbours by fellow neighbours. ( See a website called antisocialbehaviour.eu) I lived in Ballyfermot the best part of my teenage life and never once was faced with these sort of activities by my neighbours, if anything it was amazing how neighbours rallied around in support of their neighbours and friends. You should look to some of the so called ‘no antisocial behaviour here’ private estates and see how much antisocial behaviour really goes on behind the scenes. Johns Park West Clondalkin is just one example of an ever so nice image of peace and neighbourly love where some residents display on the boot door their cars, stickers that proclaim’ Cherishing children’ , yet the same thugs are the cause of some of the most inhumane acts against children living on the same road.The same people are really not all that nice, yet they can find means in which to hide their activities through association. I have followed all the various websites, I have searched the many web links to Bebo, Facebook ect ect and have seen and read about what so called ‘nice people’ can really do and how they can deny and then try to hide their activities with the help of others in authority within their own local community.
So don’t lecture me about Balllyfermot. There are good and decent people living in Ballyfermot, as there are bad people, just as there are bad people in other areas, yet Ballyfermot is unfairly used as the prime example of a bad area, an area where everyone is portrayed as being bad or questionable. There are very few place in this city where a resident can leave a key in the hall door during the day, yet there are many roads in Ballyfermot where this is done and neighbours look out for neighbours. Compare this to the example of Johns Park West in Clondalkin where residents cannot leave a flower plant in the garden for fear of the local lads kicking it along the road as their parents watch from the bottom of their gardens walls in great amusement. The same parents speak with marbles in their mouth, yet they themselves came from areas such as Finglas, Cabra, Inchicore and Ballymun ( nothing wrong with the people in these areas) but find objection to people purchasing houses on the road and make life extremely difficult and unbearable for the same people if they came from a working class area. I have never seen this in Ballyfermot, so get off the people’s back. Because Ballyfermot is seen as a working class area, this is possibly the reason why the so called ‘new middle class’ whose parents probably came from a similar working class area, now find themselves like two half-pennies looking down on a penny. They really forget and forcefully try to deny their roots. Fair play to Joe Duffy, he never forgot his roots and has never denied his roots, yet Joe is a very successful and well respected broadcaster among people from very different social backgrounds.

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