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Worst town in county Galway?

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    #32
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users Posts: 31,898 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Hmm, obviously someone who doesn't know their way out of west Galway...


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    #33
    Pgibson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 406 ✭✭Pgibson


    mars bar wrote: »
    Hmm, obviously someone who doesn't know their way out of west Galway...

    In charming, spotless and beautiful Alesund in Norway actually.

    http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Norway/South/More_og_Romsdal/Alesund/photo952777.htm

    (A bit like Connemara:

    http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/personal/photos/2001/ire1-clifden/clifden2-med.jpg )

    I know my way out of East Galway certainly!

    Yuk.
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    #34
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users Posts: 31,898 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Gotta give it to ya, that place in Norway looks STUNNING!


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    #35
    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Ballinalsoe, honourable mention to Tuam.


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    #36
    s_carnage
    Registered Users Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭s_carnage


    1) Dunmore
    2) Ballinasloe
    3) Tuam


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    #37
    Pgibson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 406 ✭✭Pgibson


    thecivvie wrote: »
    Clifden tis a tourist dump

    Of course it is!

    Its the prettiest town in the West of Ireland.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegkelly/574316290/


    (Cant IMAGINE any tourist deliberately visiting any East Galway dump.)

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    #38
    Earlc
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    Pgibson wrote: »
    Any town in East Galway.

    Uncharming and ugly.

    West- Galway towns are heaven by comparison.

    Tuam should be bulldozed.
    A 12 lane bypass should go right through the middle of it.


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    Uncharming......

    What school did you go to in West Galway?

    Numbnut


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    #39
    Pgibson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 406 ✭✭Pgibson


    Earlc wrote: »
    Uncharming......

    What school did you go to in West Galway?

    Numbnut

    The Tuam School of Charm and Grace .

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    #40
    Calluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭Calluna


    I often thought you could just live in Gort and never leave (maybe lots don't) - they have shops that sell everything....you'd never be short of a handle for a yard brush, etc, etc. You can tell all I do is drive through and laugh at the shops there!
    Loughrea just kills me - nothing there.
    Growing up living somewhere between Tuam and Ballinasloe I have more of a fondness for them and there's more going on than you would think. So my voting is:
    1. Gort, 2. Loughrea, 3. Tuam, 4. Ballinasloe
    However if villages are included I nominate Ahascragh....wicked in terms of dilapidated buildings - the town the celtic tiger forgot.


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    #41
    ScumLord
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    Dunmore is a ****hole, but Tuam is a bigger version of Dunmore making it Irelands (technically) biggest ****hole.


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    #42
    Mars Bar
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    Calluna wrote: »
    I often thought you could just live in Gort and never leave (maybe lots don't) They have everything....you'd never be short of a handle for a yard brush, etc, etc. You can tell all I do is drive through and laugh at the shops there!
    Loughrea just kills me - nothing there.
    Growing up living somewhere between Tuam and Ballinasloe I have more of a fondness for them and there's more going on than you would think. So my voting is:
    1. Gort, 2. Loughrea, 3. Tuam, 4. Ballinasloe
    However if villages are included I nominate Ahascragh....wicked in terms of dilapidated buildings - the town the celtic tiger forgot.

    We lived in Gort but we left to go to Tuam...

    Couldn't ever imagine living in Gort again but I will always come back to Tuam. I love the place...


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    #43
    Captain Darling
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    Loughrea is a sh1thole.


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    #44
    Adam Mitchel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Adam Mitchel


    Loughrea. Worst town.
    Full of cartels so you get ripped off if you stop to shop there.
    Avoid !!!


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    #45
    [Deleted User]
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    I absolutely hate both Loughrea and Ballinasloe, such dumps! I live in between them so I've seen both loads. But I live in Portumna, which probably isn't much better than either, but it's not too bad!


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    #46
    lunitic99
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    Calluna wrote: »
    I often thought you could just live in Gort and never leave (maybe lots don't) - they have shops that sell everything....you'd never be short of a handle for a yard brush, etc, etc. You can tell all I do is drive through and laugh at the shops there!
    Loughrea just kills me - nothing there.
    Growing up living somewhere between Tuam and Ballinasloe I have more of a fondness for them and there's more going on than you would think. So my voting is:
    1. Gort, 2. Loughrea, 3. Tuam, 4. Ballinasloe
    However if villages are included I nominate Ahascragh....wicked in terms of dilapidated buildings - the town the celtic tiger forgot.
    ya ahascragh is a ****hole full a dirty scumbags nd so is tuam and ballinasloe


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    #47
    afkasurfjunkie
    Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭afkasurfjunkie


    Ballinasloe - the last four letters say it all, and spell it wrong obviously.


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    #48
    RichCRX
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭RichCRX


    places are only depressing if you make them be...everyplace has a bit of crack...ya just need to find it!


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    #49
    smokin
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭smokin


    I dont understand how you can class a town as good or bad? What do you mean, the appearance, the people, facilities, setting, or is it just not exciting enough for young ppl? I live in a small village and after living in big cities I appreciate it, so everywhere has plus/minus.


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    #50
    ScumLord
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    smokin wrote: »
    I dont understand how you can class a town as good or bad? What do you mean, the appearance, the people, facilities, setting, or is it just not exciting enough for young ppl? I live in a small village and after living in big cities I appreciate it, so everywhere has plus/minus.
    Get with the program your home town has to be referred to as a ****hole but still the best ****hole in the country.


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    #51
    jd007
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    smokin wrote: »
    I dont understand how you can class a town as good or bad? What do you mean, the appearance, the people, facilities, setting, or is it just not exciting enough for young ppl? I live in a small village and after living in big cities I appreciate it, so everywhere has plus/minus.

    Mayo is another hole of a place! :pac:


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    #52
    Tuamlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭Tuamlad


    Tuam is the best town anyway We''ll all admit that expcept for the smelly rednecks here!!!

    HOORATS RULE GALWAY CITY AND COUNTY!!!


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    #53
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    Utopia Parkway wrote: »
    Tuam?
    Ballinalsoe?
    Loughrea?
    Gort?

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    it depends on what you are looking for. you can hardly expect to move there and expect people to be friendly to you if you think thez are a crowd of hicks.

    the onus as a foreigner in their midst is for you to be friendly to them. you need them but they do not necessarily need you.


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    #54
    Mars Bar
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    Tuamlad wrote: »
    Tuam is the best town anyway We''ll all admit that expcept for the smelly rednecks here!!!

    HOORATS RULE GALWAY CITY AND COUNTY!!!

    facepalm1.jpg


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    #55
    jd007
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    Tuamlad wrote: »
    Tuam is the best town anyway We''ll all admit that expcept for the smelly rednecks here!!!

    HOORATS RULE GALWAY CITY AND COUNTY!!!

    lol...


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    #56
    Tuamlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭Tuamlad


    Serioulsy Marsbar will you get a liife and go out into the real world instead of sitting behind a computer all day. Which judging by the amount of facebook status updates you put up and the amount of posts you have on this site you do sit behind a screen all day!!!

    Tuam is the best place to live n the county by far and the gangs in Tuam rule the entire county!!

    GALWAY CITY BOYS ARE ALL RATS AND WASTERS!!


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    #57
    Theponylady
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭Theponylady


    Tuam. Used to live there. Scary place to live, NEVER go out by yourself at night, and be careful in the day. The hordes of school kids are pretty rough and getting hit by cans and rubbish, or getting pushed into the road by kids roughhousing, is pretty common. Lots of very rough types and gangs there too.

    Ballinasloe isn't pretty, but I'll take it over Tuam any day. Some rough types in Ballinasloe, but not nearly as bad as Tuam.


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    #58
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users Posts: 31,898 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Tuamlad wrote: »
    Serioulsy Marsbar will you get a liife and go out into the real world instead of sitting behind a computer all day. Which judging by the amount of facebook status updates you put up and the amount of posts you have on this site you do sit behind a screen all day!!!

    Tuam is the best place to live n the county by far and the gangs in Tuam rule the entire county!!

    GALWAY CITY BOYS ARE ALL RATS AND WASTERS!!

    I have a life, one which seems to have better morals than yours.
    I have been a member here since 2005. Almost 3000 posts in 5 years averages at 2 posts a day.

    Just coz my computer is on a lot, doesn't mean I'm sitting at it all day.

    Tuam is a good place to live, I agree with that much. The gangs in Tuam are pathetic.

    Anyway, I have reported your post as you are bordering on personal abuse and quite frankly, you are an embarrassment to the town.


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    #59
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Tuamlad banned for abuse & trolling.
    Thread locked, fighting over which town is worst since 2007 will only lead down a bad path anyway.


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