Oh please! Give me a break. I grew up on Ratoath Avenue. Born 1906. My Mother and Father made sure I had a proper upbringing. My Dad worked 7 days a week to provide for 6 children. My mother worked 7 days a week to nurture 6 children. I will always be grateful for their loving sacrifice. Stop blaming society, stop expecting others to provide. Take life and make it yours. Don't blame others for the failure of your family. Or yourself. None of my family felt deprived. We had loving supportive parents and siblings.
I lived in Fingas for 20 years and all of my neighbours were hard working decent people. I never knew anyone involved in crime. Yet, these kind of programs cater for the rampant snobbery which afflicts all of Irish society whereby those on the next rung of the social ladder invariably delight in looking down their noses at others perceived to be beneath them. Consequently, many but not all of those born, reared in Fingask now deny any association with the place out of fear that they will not be accepted elsewhere. The houses built during the 1950's ,although of the same design, we're built to a high standard and today this is reflected in their prices. Fingas is a thriving community but RTE catering for the snobbish majority still delight in running the place down.
There's other videos on youtube showing how nice Finglas was up until the 80s, then it all seemed to go arse upwards, Finglas became less a village community and just another Dublin suburb none of the long history of Finglas was taught to us in school. I had a typical and happy enough childhood there in the 80s and 90s, Going to the local 'baths' For walks down the canal, playing football with yer mates on your road and other games, sure I had me share of being bullied and run ins with the travellers and I got used to hearing lads on scrambler bikes every weekend morning in the fields next to Dunsink, Car's being joy rided, seeing horses on fields everywhere and even wandering into my estate in Finglas south, avoiding other estates when looking for a short cut to the shops or bus stop in case y'might be picked on cause they wouldn't recognize you, yep even in a place small as Finglas their was a very small minded territorial vibe about the place, working as a door to door salesman made me see that all over Dublin actually. Atleast Finglas has had a long and great history before it seemed to become just another drab and dodgy suburb like many others in modern Dublin, Ballymun comes t'mind, all for bad government planning to blame really, but folks made the best of it I guess and still do.
Spot on jay the estates in limerick came to mind and they never learned from the neglect of finglas and other similar areas. Building big estates with fuck all amenities. No shops or schools so how are these people supposed to live. 2nd class citizens we get treated as and it's disgusting.
There is still snobbery towards Finglas and Ballymun people. Although some people from both areas like to use this as an excuse to have an attitude problem
