Does anyone actually like Bray?

limerickwoman

Atari Jaguar, I haver been there:eek:

Dudess

My mate lived in Bray for a few years when she was a kid - she doesn't want to talk about it.

frecklz

There is a €2 billion development plan for Bray in the pipeline. Big shopping centre and 8-screen cinema on the seafront... Might keep the lower life forms away from IMC Dún Laoghaire...

On the plus side of Bray - funfair (I just listen to the screams), Sea Life (awesome, but too small for yer money - also next to a seafood restaurant :eek:), and Ardmore Studios (where movies and stuff get made).

Mainly a depressing little seaside-town-that-was.

gcgirl

Maybe

Bray is just a bunch of Dub wannabes!!! Full of Dutch Gold drinking skangers!! Arklow is not much different! Come on Wicklow Town:D

Latchy

In my travels around north west england i somtimes come across people who on hearing my accent say '' oh we went on a day /weekend trip to ireland '' and i go ,oh how nice and tell me, were did you go ? and the reply in a lot of cases is ' Bray' and for some reason i find myself laughing

Jesus Wept

Fusion251 wrote: »

I quite like bray but it does need a facelift.

The needle on the 'like-yore-ma'-ometer is at breaking point. I can't hold it much longer.

I know yorema'isms are actively discouraged, but with metaphors like this, something has to give.

Xavi6

Maybe

irishbird wrote: »

....bono drinks in the harbour....

That's a no vote from me so.

elmyra

Atari Jaguar

It's a point of personal pride that I can count on one hand the number of times I've been to Bray. I bought a car there once, I dropped a friend to their house, I inexplicably ended up there on a pointless road trip one dark dark night, I gave a speech at a conference in the Esplanade and I went through it on a bus to Glendalough. Sadly, on none of these occasions did I really get to form a proper opinion of the place - never had food there or just wandered around or anything. Aside from that, my feelings are basically summed up in two thoughts - 1, Greystones appears to be way better. Their beach is gorgeous and it has a nice villagey feel and appears less knackery. 2 - the McChurch is weird and bothers me.

BraziliaNZ

i used to like it when i was a wain. Haven't been there since I was about 14 with my mates, which was 14 years ago or so, we climbed the hill and walked around the coast a bit and it was sunny and nice. The town was a kip at the time though. I remember drunk dublin knackers up for the day with their tops off and one of them with blood running from his head. I'm never going there again.

Crumble Froo

No

aww, awesome day...

was going in for surgery the day afterwards, but ended up randomly hopping on a dart to bray, having some nice chill time (twas a gorgeous day, in feb, i think), having some nice space to my self on the beach and stuff, and then waiting for the dart back, and seeing a few girls from college, and then going back with them, hanging for a bit... a really really good freindship sprung from the day, and i always think of bray with affectoin now

John Mason

Xavi6 wrote: »

That's a no vote from me so.

tbh, we dont want your sort anyway, it would bring down the tone of the area even more :P

someone the night clubs are crap - what bloody night clubs, i there are three late bars but no night clubs not since the bray head closed down.

oh the nights, i had in that place - actually probably better to forget them

i could murder a henry and rose now though

John Mason

elmyra wrote: »

1, Greystones appears to be way better. Their beach is gorgeous and it has a nice villagey feel and appears less knackery. 2 - the McChurch is weird and bothers me.

Greystone is a horrible concrete town
the McChurch is in fact the McTown Hall, it never was a church


the worse Mc'D's in ireland btw

Tom65

Atari Jaguar

elmyra wrote: »

It's a point of personal pride that I can count on one hand the number of times I've been to Bray. I stole a car there once, I dropped a friend to their house, I inexplicably ended up there on a pointless road trip one dark dark night, I gave a speech at a conference in the Esplanade and I went through it on a bus to Glendalough.

Fixed (we are talking about Bray, here).

lost marbles

ALL GOOD DONKEYS GO TO BRAY
if you want to go into a time warp (back to the 60s 70s )
visit the bray head hotel

John Mason

lost marbles wrote: »

ALL GOOD DONKEYS GO TO BRAY
if you want to go into a time warp (back to the 60s 70s )
visit the bray head hotel

The Bray Head Hotel has closed down

Joliegood

irishbird wrote: »

Greystone is a horrible concrete town

Of course it is

irishbird

Maybe

irishbird wrote: »

eh?????????????

bray is in wicklow ?


i am originally from bray it is very beautiful when you take away the junkies, tracksuits, 14 year single mothers and the dubs who migrate there during the summer months

but the porterhouse hails from bray, so thats not bad and bono drinks in the harbour

and the back strand is really sandy and lovely

but the swans can be really aggresive

hmm pizza and cream best pizza and ice cream in ireland

it used to have Escape but tom didnt pay his taxes and now its a nice italian restuarant but not as good as Escape

its a mixed bag really

knew you'd be in this thread.....what i didnt know is that you're FROM BRAY!! :eek::eek:

jbravado

Maybe

I LITERALLY hate Bray more than anywhere else on the entire planet(obv to most,war torn countries/famine floods/disease would be considered worse but for me they would be the lesser of two evils). Its strange I was actually thinking about this burning hatred the other day prior to seeing this thread.

Xavi6

Maybe

Xavi6 wrote: »

That's a no vote from me so.

LOL he also drinks near me in Dalkey, he gets left alone tho thank God!

lost marbles

irishbird wrote: »

The Bray Head Hotel has closed down

no it hasnt ,the bar and the hotel is still in business and i noticed that it has got a new lick of white paint

John Mason

Deleted User wrote: »

knew you'd be in this thread.....what i didnt know is that you're FROM BRAY!! :eek::eek:

hey whats wrong with that?

i am from the nice end

John Mason

lost marbles wrote: »

no it hasnt ,the bar and the hotel is still in business and i noticed that it has got a new lick of white paint

oh, it must have opened back up so :cool:

which is great, it is such a lovely building, oh horrendous inside but lovely on the outside

Fratton Fred

Maybe

irishbird wrote: »

i am from the nice end

Shankill?

lost marbles

irishbird wrote: »

oh, it must have opened back up so :cool:

which is great, it is such a lovely building, oh horrendous inside but lovely on the outside

i believe its a listed building so it can never be touched

Ginny

No

irishbird wrote: »

tbh, we dont want your sort anyway, it would bring down the tone of the area even more :P

someone the night clubs are crap - what bloody night clubs, i there are three late bars but no night clubs not since the bray head closed down.

oh the nights, i had in that place - actually probably better to forget them

i could murder a henry and rose now though

The Koo??

Is Henry and Rose any better these days, I loved it but they did something a while ago to the chips and they tasted muck.

Yeah bray head is a B&B AFAIK.

AARRRGH

hunter164 wrote: »

So does anyone actually like Bray or is it just another town that wishes it was in Dublin?

I like Bray. I'd happily live there.

I prefer Greystones though.

irishbird

Maybe

irishbird wrote: »

hey whats wrong with that?

i am from the nice end

Theres a nice end?

John Mason

Deleted User wrote: »

Theres a nice end?

yeah, its more the kilmac side then the bray side, sure i remember when it was all fields and the cows would in the garden in the morning eating the flowers


ah them were the days

irishbird

Maybe

irishbird wrote: »

yeah, its more the kilmac side then the bray side, sure i remember when it was all fields and the cows would in the garden in the morning eating the flowers


ah them were the days

So what you meant to say was you're from Wicklow, the nice part, and that Brays urban sprawl has infested your once picturesque neighbourhood!

*melanie*

Maybe

i was born and bread in bray,and cant stand the place, hence moving away far far away! although its good for some,just not me.

gcgirl

Maybe

*melanie* wrote: »

i was born and bread in bray,and cant stand the place, hence moving away far far away! although its good for some,just not me.

+1,000,000,000 there!!

Steve_o

Maybe

Been to Bray twice... hated both times!

FunkZ

Atari Jaguar

I've never been to Bray but I reckon it's a ****hole cause you live there.

/points at someone who lives in Bray!

Steve_o

Maybe

FunkZ wrote: »

I've never been to Bray but I reckon it's a ****hole cause you live there.

/points at someone who lives in Bray!

ooooohhhh

Fight Fight Fight

Creamy Goodness

it's like everywhere, everywhere has bad and good places.

lol at someone who mentioned shankill, it's just as bad as bray tbh.

the good areas in bray would be southern cross/kilarney/kilmac area as IB pointed out/ardmore and down by the beach. the rest within reason is just ugh.

i'm down by the beach btw

Eoin

No

Cremo wrote: »

the good areas in bray would be southern cross/kilarney/kilmac area as IB pointed out/ardmore and down by the beach. the rest within reason is just ugh.

i'm down by the beach btw

You're writing off all of little Bray just like that?

darsar

No

Defenestrate wrote: »

"This train is for Bray. Bray."

This train is for Bray, Bré

Creamy Goodness

eoin_s wrote: »

You're writing off all of little Bray just like that?

no i said within reason i could list more but it would take ages.

two areas from little bray which are nice are old connaught (hope i spelt that right) and corke abbey.

BraziliaNZ

No

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

i used to like it when i was a wain. Haven't been there since I was about 14 with my mates, which was 14 years ago or so, we climbed the hill and walked around the coast a bit and it was sunny and nice. The town was a kip at the time though. I remember drunk dublin knackers up for the day with their tops off and one of them with blood running from his head. I'm never going there again.

And that has to do with Bray how? This is the sh1t that winds me up. Most people hating Bray because of the Dublin knackers that come out and get pissed and fight.
IT'S NOT OUR FAULT!!! We're lovely we are



(Totally from Bray)

Fratton Fred

Maybe

Cremo wrote: »

lol at someone who mentioned shankill, it's just as bad as bray tbh.

I know, it was meant to be ironic, but it doesn't work on the interweb thingy

af_thefragile

Maybe

imo bray is a kip.
Well atleast the "beach" side of it is...

R0ot

Never actually been to Bray, /me makes note for next outing :pac:

foxy06

No

I love Bray. Some scumbags but they are everywhere. The scenery is beautiful and most of the people are friendly. The nightlife is good and best of all I live there.....so must be great:)