Positives of Sligo?!

Madge

Since Muffler suggessted a thread with the positives of Sligo, I came up with a few...

1. The litter problem in Sligo has improved a bit, esp around the town (that is my view anyway!)
2. Sligo has two lovely beaches- Strandhill (great for surfing!) and Rosses Point
3. There HAS been some good development commercially with the retail park at Carraroe and Quayside shopping centre- these have brought a lot of big name retailers
4. There is a 12 screen cinema in the centre of town
5. There are 2 high quality third level colleges in Sligo which are always developing and offering a variety of courses
6. The county has nice countryside, mountains and lakes- such as Benbulben, Knocknarea, Lough Gill, Hazelwood
7. The county has some good history- W.B Yeats, Lisadell House, Sligo Abbey etc
8. The county has some good golf courses such as Enniscrone
9. The county has a few famous bands come out of it- Westlife, Conway Sisters, Tommy Fleming, Dervish
10. There is a theatre in the centre of town, which puts on good shows- Hawkes Well

Resistance

You forgot Rovers the North West’s finest

muffler

Resistance wrote:

You forgot Rovers the North West’s finest

Whats that , biscuits

muffler

Madge wrote:

Since Muffler suggessted a thread with the positives of Sligo, I came up with a few...

1. The litter problem in Sligo has improved a bit, esp around the town (that is my view anyway!)
2. Sligo has two lovely beaches- Strandhill (great for surfing!) and Rosses Point
3. There HAS been some good development commercially with the retail park at Carraroe and Quayside shopping centre- these have brought a lot of big name retailers
4. There is a 12 screen cinema in the centre of town
5. There are 2 high quality third level colleges in Sligo which are always developing and offering a variety of courses
6. The county has nice countryside, mountains and lakes- such as Benbulben, Knocknarea, Lough Gill, Hazelwood
7. The county has some good history- W.B Yeats, Lisadell House, Sligo Abbey etc
8. The county has some good golf courses such as Enniscrone
9. The county has a few famous bands come out of it- Westlife, Conway Sisters, Tommy Fleming, Dervish
10. There is a theatre in the centre of town, which puts on good shows- Hawkes Well

good on ya girl. I knew there was a lot of good things about Sligo and if I knew the place in any depth myself i would contribute more but I have to say that some of the scenery is second to none

TempestSabre

Its very green.

smashey

Everywhere you go in Sligo, there are signposts pointing to Lifford.:D

il gatto

Not to put a dampner on things, but alot of these positives are in the county, not the town. And alot of the positives about the town are not due to those who run it. I will say however, the areas along the river is such a massive improvement over what it was ten years ago. It was a dump. It's nice and cosmopoliton feeling now. See. I'm not the Sligo grinch:D Oh! And I like what they've done opening the route from the Wine Street carpark into Dunnes carpark. Very handy.
With regards to the county, I think it's great. Pity more tourists don't visit. Seems to be a staging post between Galway and Donegal. It's a lovely place. I know our friends in Donegal probably think they go unnoticed with regards visitors, but Sligo seems to be a non destination. There's no life in Sligo during the summer outside of Saturdays

Tar.Aldarion

I live in the country, it is absolutlely beautiful, especially hen it is sunny and at night.

muffler

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I live in the country, it is absolutlely beautiful, especially hen it is sunny and at night.

What sort of hens do you have in Sligo - glow in the dark ones

Tar.Aldarion

The ones that get drunk and have parties in nightclubs. (:

muffler

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

The ones that get drunk and have parties in nightclubs. (:

in other words - "grow in the dark" type

Tar.Aldarion

I have no idea what you mean.
>_>
<_<

DaBreno

Its perpetual rainfall should ensure there will never be a drought in the county.

SprostonGreen

Its take-the-p'iss humour of the townie residents.

Aine Chambers.

A rake of good pubs.

gustavo

As Resistance said , we have one of the finest soccer teams in the country
Plenty of good dramatic companies and productions each year,
Ill come back when I think of more!

Exar Khun

Surfs up bra !

Resistance

muffler wrote:

Whats that , biscuits

Hilarious muffler :rolleyes:

SprostonGreen

We also have a nice accent. Criticised by many as being "knackery", but sure what do they know?

dingding

DaBreno wrote:

Its perpetual rainfall should ensure there will never be a drought in the county.

Must be time for the annual water rationing

il gatto

A nice accent? Now that's sarcasm. It goes through me like a dentists drill. I've grown up in and around Sligo since I was 3 years old, and I'm eternally grateful to the speech gods that I haven't been lumbered with it. Don't know how I managed to avoid picking it up. Loads of people I grew up with had it, and most I've worked with.
It's like a nasal Dublin accent with a sneery edge. It's completely exclusive to the town and a small area around it. There's nothing like it anywhere else in the country. "Welll Bud. How'ya now? Me mudder an' me fadder are out in de gaarden, readin' de Chaampion. NNNHH! You lukin' at me buddy? I'll rip off ur hed an' s#*t down ur troat! NNNHH!" God. I cringe just typing it.:D

SprostonGreen

il gatto wrote:

A nice accent? Now that's sarcasm. It goes through me like a dentists drill. I've grown up in and around Sligo since I was 3 years old, and I'm eternally grateful to the speech gods that I haven't been lumbered with it. Don't know how I managed to avoid picking it up. Loads of people I grew up with had it, and most I've worked with.
It's like a nasal Dublin accent with a sneery edge. It's completely exclusive to the town and a small area around it. There's nothing like it anywhere else in the country. "Welll Bud. How'ya now? Me mudder an' me fadder are out in de gaarden, readin' de Chaampion. NNNHH! You lukin' at me buddy? I'll rip off ur hed an' s#*t down ur troat! NNNHH!" God. I cringe just typing it.:D

Yes, but judging from your most recent posts in this section, you dont seem to like Sligo full stop, so its of no surprise you dont like the accent.

Spoken properly with good diction its sounds nice. Spoken by a knacker it doesnt.

Madge

il gatto wrote:

Not to put a dampner on things, but alot of these positives are in the county, not the town.

Most of them are in the town actually.

il gatto wrote:

Pity more tourists don't visit. Seems to be a staging post between Galway and Donegal. It's a lovely place. I know our friends in Donegal probably think they go unnoticed with regards visitors, but Sligo seems to be a non destination. There's no life in Sligo during the summer outside of Saturdays

I think you're mistaken.. The town is choc a block with foreigners! You only have to go into Pennys- full of foreign students. I was coming out of the cinema the other night and there was loads of foreign students at the entrance. Not to mention the camping sites at Strandhill and Rosses Point have been full for the last few weeks.
BTW, I think the Sligo accent is nice... ' I'm from Slyyygo' (heavily pronounce the g..!)

magnumlady

I agree with you about the lovely countryside and beaches.
The town is getting better, but people have got to stop objecting to progress.
I see in the paper there have been a load of objections to the Wine Street shopping centre. Do the shop keepers that object not realise that by stopping the shops that people want coming into the town they are forcing people to go elsewhere.
The cinema is good, but should be out of town or have its own car park.

gustavo

il gatto wrote:

A nice accent? Now that's sarcasm. It goes through me like a dentists drill. I've grown up in and around Sligo since I was 3 years old, and I'm eternally grateful to the speech gods that I haven't been lumbered with it. Don't know how I managed to avoid picking it up. Loads of people I grew up with had it, and most I've worked with.
It's like a nasal Dublin accent with a sneery edge. It's completely exclusive to the town and a small area around it. There's nothing like it anywhere else in the country. "Welll Bud. How'ya now? Me mudder an' me fadder are out in de gaarden, readin' de Chaampion. NNNHH! You lukin' at me buddy? I'll rip off ur hed an' s#*t down ur troat! NNNHH!" God. I cringe just typing it.:D

have to say i agree with you there!
I find it very harsh

il gatto

Spoken properly with good diction and it's not a true Sligo accent. I specifically meant your every day nasal whine. What is most identifiable as a Sligo town accent.
My previous posts are in relation to how Sligo has been managed by those who take our tax money as wages and do a crappy job. If I didn't like Sligo I would have left. My "career" isn't so good that I couldn't up sticks and move. I'm just annoyed by how civil servants and polititions not addressing problems and letting things run on til it's too late to fix(like the Mid-Block Route).
In relation to tourism, Sligos a dead duck. There's coach trips stop off in the Southern and loads of Spanish exchange students. Not much else really.If you visit Westport or Galway or Killarney or Kilkenny this time of year, they're buzzing. Every night of the week. For my sins I work in the hospitality industry in Sligo town, and any night outside of a Saturday or Bank Holiday Sunday is sooo quiet. You could go out on a Friday or Sunday and it might be busy, but chances are it won't. That's a pity because like I said, I think Sligo has alot to offer visitors. They're just not coming here in any numbers.
By the way SprostonGreen? Is that like the Charlatans song on the Some Friendly album?

il gatto

And Madge, 4 out of your 10 posts referred to "county" and Strandhill and Rosses point and not in the Borough of Sligo either. I said alot of your positives reffered to the county, not the town and, as half of them do, I stand by that.

muffler

il gatto wrote:

Spoken properly with good diction and it's not a true Sligo accent. I specifically meant your every day nasal whine. What is most identifiable as a Sligo town accent.
My previous posts are in relation to how Sligo has been managed by those who take our tax money as wages and do a crappy job. If I didn't like Sligo I would have left. My "career" isn't so good that I couldn't up sticks and move. I'm just annoyed by how civil servants and polititions not addressing problems and letting things run on til it's too late to fix(like the Mid-Block Route).
In relation to tourism, Sligos a dead duck. There's coach trips stop off in the Southern and loads of Spanish exchange students. Not much else really.If you visit Westport or Galway or Killarney or Kilkenny this time of year, they're buzzing. Every night of the week. For my sins I work in the hospitality industry in Sligo town, and any night outside of a Saturday or Bank Holiday Sunday is sooo quiet. You could go out on a Friday or Sunday and it might be busy, but chances are it won't. That's a pity because like I said, I think Sligo has alot to offer visitors. They're just not coming here in any numbers.
By the way SprostonGreen? Is that like the Charlatans song on the Some Friendly album?

You may be getting confused about what thread you are posting in. Stay on topic or if you want to post the above comments do so in the relevant thread

il gatto

There's not much point responding to comments made to me in a different thread. I'm just replying to people who have quoted my posts. I thought that was the nature of dicussion. They've taken issue with what I've said and I've taken issue with what they've said. It's not off topic. It's just a differing view.

Besprechen

Madge wrote:

Since Muffler suggessted a thread with the positives of Sligo, I came up with a few...

1. The litter problem in Sligo has improved a bit, esp around the town (that is my view anyway!)
2. Sligo has two lovely beaches- Strandhill (great for surfing!) and Rosses Point
3. There HAS been some good development commercially with the retail park at Carraroe and Quayside shopping centre- these have brought a lot of big name retailers
4. There is a 12 screen cinema in the centre of town
5. There are 2 high quality third level colleges in Sligo which are always developing and offering a variety of courses
6. The county has nice countryside, mountains and lakes- such as Benbulben, Knocknarea, Lough Gill, Hazelwood
7. The county has some good history- W.B Yeats, Lisadell House, Sligo Abbey etc
8. The county has some good golf courses such as Enniscrone
9. The county has a few famous bands come out of it- Westlife, Conway Sisters, Tommy Fleming, Dervish
10. There is a theatre in the centre of town, which puts on good shows- Hawkes Well

hey dont forget...
11. Aine C. and her wee sister

Fitzo

Resistance wrote:

You forgot Rovers the North West’s finest

couldnt agree more Forza Rovers;)

Madge

il gatto wrote:

And Madge, 4 out of your 10 posts referred to "county" and Strandhill and Rosses point and not in the Borough of Sligo either. I said alot of your positives reffered to the county, not the town and, as half of them do, I stand by that.

6 points referred to the town actually. I also disagree with you about the amount of foreigners here. Theres a lot more than you think..
Of course I agree Sligo is badly managed- no public toilet and planning objections. But imo, it certainly isn't the worst place in the country.