Your LEAST favourite Irish county???

Mr. Brightside

Probably Longford, just cos when I was young the whole family had to make regular trips to Edgewordstown to visit an elderly nun grandaunt, who lived in an awful old folks home. The place just smelled like nuns and death. And she lived until she was 95! Such bad memories. Nuns are not nice people.

Theres something about Offaly as well that I just cant put my finger on....

Nightwish

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Kilkenny:(:(:(:(

I rather like Kilkenny. I only appreciated it after living in Dublin, which is a cesspool of ****e.

5starpool

A lot of the pro-Cork people think it is just Dubs that dislike Cork when in fact it is far more. I am not from anywhere near Dublin even though I do live there. I find bits of Dublin and certain Dublin attitudes/accents nearly as bad as Cork ones, but in general Cork just takes the biscuit for me.

L31mr0d

Dublin... not enough Dubliners here anymore. I don't like feeling i need to learn another language to get a Big Mac.

daveirl

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stovelid

Dubs going on about living in the capital city is annoying enough but the "thwarted second city/ Real Capital" guff you get from Corkies is much more irritating. Ditto Mancunians and Catalans. Get over it.

Apart from that, I love the place.

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vanban

It's just the accent of cork people that drives me crazy. they cant say a sentence without the whole high pitch / low pitch thing . .

have to agree though that west cork is beautiful tho .

Edwardius

Mr. Brightside wrote:

Probably Longford, just cos when I was young the whole family had to make regular trips to Edgewordstown to visit an elderly nun grandaunt, who lived in an awful old folks home. The place just smelled like nuns and death.

The manor? Me granny's there. It smells like **** and one of the aul ones in the room ****s herself. I'd prefer to acquaint the back of my throat with a shotgun.

MrScruff

How oft do my thoughts in their fancy take flight
To the home of my childhood away,
To the days when each patriot's vision seem'd bright
Ere I dreamed that those joys should decay.
When my heart was as light as the wild winds that blow
Down the Mardyke through each elm tree,
Where I sported and play'd 'neath each green leafy shade
On the banks of my own lovely Lee.

And then in the springtime of laughter and song
Can I ever forget the sweet hours?
With the friends of my youth as we rambled along
'Mongst the green mossy banks and wild flowers.
Then too, when the evening sun's sinking to rest
Sheds its golden light over the sea
The maid with her lover the wild daisies pressed
On the banks of my own lovely Lee
The maid with her lover the wild daisies pressed
On the banks of my own lovely Lee

'Tis a beautiful land this dear isle of song
Its gems shed their light to the world
And her faithful sons bore thro' ages of wrong,
The standard St. Patrick unfurled.
Oh! would I were there with the friends I love best
And my fond bosom's partner with me
We'd roam thy banks over, and when weary we'd rest
By thy waters, my own lovely Lee,
We'd roam thy banks over, and when weary we'd rest
By thy waters, my own lovely Lee,

Oh what joys should be mine ere this life should decline
To seek shells on thy sea-girdled shore.
While the steel-feathered eagle, oft splashing the brine
Brings longing for freedom once more.
Oh all that on earth I wish for or crave
Is that my last crimson drop be for thee,
To moisten the grass of my forefathers' grave
On the banks of my own lovely Lee
To moisten the grass of my forefathers' grave
On the banks of my own lovely Lee.

Aard

Cork. But only because of that "People's Republic" lark.

Vegeta

Aard wrote:

Cork. But only because of that "People's Republic" lark.

Cue cork person to come in and defend their county :rolleyes:

Collie D

Haha, that's pretty much the gist of this thread. Actually I want to add another few, Fingal County, South County Dublin and Dun Laoighaire/Rathdown because they actually felt they had to be seperate from the rest of Dublin.

Aard

Collie D wrote:

Haha, that's pretty much the gist of this thread. Actually I want to add another few, Fingal County, South County Dublin and Dun Laoighaire/Rathdown because they actually felt they had to be seperate from the rest of Dublin.

That's because of the population in those parts. And what about Tipperary North/South; I mean, there's a wtf if ever there was one.

Femelade

Vegeta wrote:

Cue cork person to come in and defend their county :rolleyes:

you called?

Yeah yeah, so what?, us corkonians like to defend our county...nothing wrong with that..its healthy.

However, i feel it is unhealthy for people from other county's to get all hot and bothered because of our "people's republic" and to make comments on our defending our county..

Bla Bla...whatever floats your boat..and all that jazz...

That is all.

crybaby

cork due to all that ridiculously misplaced arrogance

Devious

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You do understand everything you've just said is completely negated by the Cork accent, yes?

(I'm from Waterford btw - im bracing myself for the slagging)

Shaque attack

Collie D wrote:

Haha, that's pretty much the gist of this thread. Actually I want to add another few, Fingal County, South County Dublin and Dun Laoighaire/Rathdown because they actually felt they had to be seperate from the rest of Dublin.

Its simple science. like forces repel. two groups of arrogant assholes that think they're better than the rest of the country/county they are in but for different reasons and have horrible accents put on to make themselves feel great. A split was inevitable.

that and they have so much more money and a lower crime rate they were gonna split sooner or later

Edit: But don't worry, its still where you find the salt of the earth. the genuine dubs.

bert174

It has to be Dublin.

Before we had foreign immigrants, these parochial inward looking morons complained about culchies coming to the "big smoke" and taking their jobs.

They look down on the other actual cities ignoring the fact that their "city" is just a collection of villages.

road_high

Big Ears wrote:

Kilkenny , got some lovely chips there once . That's about the only positive though .

Funny, to hear that from a Tipp person.Do I detect just a hint of jealousy??

road_high

Darren wrote:

My top ten least favourite Irish counties

10. Cork
9. Cork
8. Cork
7. Cork
6. Cork
5. Cork
4. Cork
3. Cork
2. Cork
1. Cork

Cork CV crosses my desk, it's the bin for 3.

You've read my mind here...I hate the rebels/people's republic of Cork/whatever they like to call themselves.

Hate the way they are to be found working everywhere in Ireland, especially in good, better paid professional jobs.But I do admire their go-getter mentality!:D

Zebra3

Offaly or Cork.

Edenderry is a violent hellhole and a lot (not all) of people I meet from Cork have a serious attitude problem/chip on the shoulder.

"The Real Capital"...I mean wtf..... :rolleyes:

And when there's a united Ireland, they'll be suffering from third city syndrome.

daveirl

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Corruptedmorals

julep wrote:

most of the scumbags in Leixlip are from middle class families.

They also moved from Dublin/ put on Northside accents..

Cavan. It really is such a stingy place..so typical of the five pubs-one shop that's also the post office.......every village, bar Virginia and and Cavan town...

Donegal's the same, and the accent's terrible. Was there in Anagaire, or..Annagry, I think....the locals physically resented us...just because the majority of us were from Dublin...

Cork, don't like their attitude, but West Cork's lovely....Schull/Goleen...woo for BarleyCove beach

Hagar

Dublin, because it's got more culchies in it than any other single county.:D

cornbb

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And Shannon. Gotta hate Shannon town (no offence to Shannon people, but I worked there for 2 years and absolutely despise the place). West Clare is great though.

Flukey

From what I've seen most of the comments here relate to towns and cities but not the counties as a whole. Dublin has some horrible parts and some very nice parts. You can say the same of any county in the country. If you are going to talk about least favourite counties, then you have to deal with the county as a whole. Otherwise this thread should really be called "Your least favourite city or town."

DamienH

Don't like Offaly just because there's nothing there. One fella tried to convince me Tullamore was a city because it had a bridge.....

Mrs. MacGyver

Offally, i hate the place, most boring place on earth.

Roscommon is lovely,

As for Cork, no harm in us taking pride in our County, we just say things to wind ye up dont get so serious or pissed off about it as its all done in jest like.

whassupp2

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

Offally, i hate the place, most boring place on earth.

Roscommon is lovely,

As for Cork, no harm in us taking pride in our County, we just say things to wind ye up dont get so serious or pissed off about it as its all done in jest like.

yes!!!!

one for the Rossies.:D

eddyc

Cork, being from dublin the light hearted "Oh, nobodys perfect" banter just gets old really quickly, WTF. Cork should be the capital, right ok fine lets do it. The peoples republic bull**** ,yeah, ok.

Dublin aint so bad or at least doesnt seem so bad after living in cork for a year and a half, on the whole dubs are pretty down to earth its just that the scumbags are a bit more vocal with their ****headedness, pollution and traffic are ****, but as someone said earlier there is always something to do.