Darndale

At the Holy Mary statue.

No, I think you might actually have to go out to Darndale.

Bro, look, we'll sort it.

I'll drop you out.

Bro,

we'll punch his head in.

We're going out to the Darndale Roundabout.

And if Dave is not there.

Because unfortunately, the problem with these instances is, to you and me, they look horrible and you say something has to be done.

But if you're sitting in Darndale or somewhere like that, and you've got a nephew or a son or a daughter who's racked up a couple of grand in a drug debt and is desperately begging you for help, are you more or less likely to fork over the cash after what happened this week?

Well, what do you propose to them? I mean, outside of creating a new law that makes, I mean, this is the problem.

I mean, A, the characteristics of this type of intimidation is that the last person you're going to go, you're going to be told that the first, the last people you're going to go to is the guards.

Again, this was a thing he was learning, you know, to fight back, and we ended up fighting them back.

And anyway, that suicide attempt, we left, and we moved back in with my mother's family, and my father, uh, had to go to an institution or, and then would've been back and forward between there and his own mother and father's, who lived in Darndale, this council estate across from our camp where I grew up in as well.

A very kind of, like, rough-

Okay

Now, it's just, this is the nonsense, and it's just out of their own pure, bloody selfishness.

Yeah, there's a lot of middle-class people who think, oh, a little bit of drugs won't F me over much, but if you live in the communities like Singlas and Darndale, you'll have to live with the constant intimidation in those areas.

Like, it's easy for someone from Stillorgan to go on and say, oh, I won't worry about it too much, or I don't want to get hassled from the police for having a little bit of cocaine at the weekend.

We can't have this.

[upbeat music] Moncrieff on News Talk.

In the North Dublin suburb of Darndale, there is a local park.

But unlike similar parks all over the city and country, this one is notable for the amount of horses in it.

Horse ownership has been a notable feature of life in certain parts of Dublin for decades.

But in many cases, the owners don't quite have the resources to properly care for the animals.

Noel O'Reilly is a Darndale local with a family involvement in horses as well.

Noel, good afternoon to you.

How are you, Sean? Thanks for having me.

Good lad.

They come from, Chris used to say, the posh part of Darndale, but in and around that way.

So they're from good stock.

And I've seen a lot of Paddy play down the levels in England as well, Steve Owen.