If you had to nuke an Irish town ...

IvaBigWun

grenache wrote: »

The following towns should not be in the poll, certainly not amongst the country's 20 biggest holes: Kilmallock, Kilkenny, Mitchelstown, Enniskerry.

Kilmallock shouldnt have been in there with the "Limerick" option admittedly but I thought Enniskerry was a hole myself. And the other 2 seem to have enough votes to justify them been there.

Maybe this should be done in the Dublin forum but with different areas in the city (Cushlawn in Tallaght etc). Would 20 options be enough there I wonder?

little lady

Wexford town, it's got to be the most depressing town in Ireland.....even on a nice day it's dull and dingy......pity cause the rest of the county seems ok...just not the town

IvaBigWun

According to http://www.towns-ireland.com/best-and-worst/

20 Worst Towns or cities to Live in Ireland

(In order of Worst First)

1. Rathnew
2. Longford
3. Tipperary
4 Carrick-on-Suir
5 New Ross
6 Enniscorthy
7 Abbeyfeale
8 Castleblayney
9 Castleisland
10 Kilrush
11 Portrane
12 Tullow
13 Athy
14 Bunclody-Carrickduff
15 Roscrea
16 Monasterevan
17 Carndonagh
18 Swinford
19 Ballina
20 Cootehill

Blazer

Karoma wrote: »

If we're talking a 'smart bomb', then I'd choose Dublin. Leave everything in tact, just remove the people. Bliss.

Goodbye scummy Dublin accents

elmolesto

Mitchelstown

ciano1

useful_contacts wrote: »

no one said clonmel

i live there and i hate it:mad:

+1

Just warn me before ya drop it, OK

Blazer

ciano1 wrote: »

+1

Just warn me before ya drop it, OK

consider yourself warned!

more tea vicar

Kinsale would be a decent wee town now.

IvaBigWun

more tea vicar wrote: »

Kinsale would be a decent wee town now.

It would now there now.

On the other side there's:

Top 20 Towns Best Places to Live (Pop 1500 or more)


1 Malahide
2 Portmarnock
3 Ballina (North Tipperary)
4 Annacotty
5 Greystones
6 Oranmore
7 Maynooth
8 Enniskerry
9 Dunshaughlin
10 Newcastle
11 Ratoath
12 Crosshaven
13 Donabate
14 Stamullen
15 Leixlip
16 Carrigaline
17 Kinsealy-Drinan
18 Dunboyne
19 Skerries
20 Celbridge


So one mans kip is another's castle.

Joseph Kuhr

I know I'm in the minority but Kilkenny....for being seriously overrated. What qualifies this as a city? What is mideval about it? The place is seriously overrated and full of alcholoics. you can't blame them mind you, there is absolutely nothing to do there except get sloshed.

azezil

IvaBigWun wrote: »

It would now there now.

On the other side there's:

Top 20 Towns Best Places to Live (Pop 1500 or more)


1 Malahide
2 Portmarnock
3 Ballina (North Tipperary)
4 Annacotty
5 Greystones
6 Oranmore
7 Maynooth
8 Enniskerry
9 Dunshaughlin
10 Newcastle
11 Ratoath
12 Crosshaven
13 Donabate
14 Stamullen
15 Leixlip
16 Carrigaline
17 Kinsealy-Drinan
18 Dunboyne
19 Skerries
20 Celbridge


So one mans kip is another's castle.

Ballina is voted in the top 20 worst and best... o_Ó

And Kilkenny's a city gimp hole :P

IvaBigWun

azezil wrote: »

Ballina is voted in the top 20 worst and best... o_Ó

http://www.towns-ireland.com/best-and-worst/

Strange that. Maybe its a bit like Dublin's north and south side?

Twee.

Navan.

aidan24326

My vote goes to Dundalk. Total kip.

Cookie_Monster

Cork should be on that list!

It gets my vote anyway.

And Bray if I had a spare...

Frisbee

Arklow

Dirty, dirty place

Acid_Violet

All this poll shows is that Culchies are a mad jealous bunch.

Mini Red Hot

both ****holes full of corrupt cops kiddie fiddlers and small minded yokels.
May i also add they are the type of town that the ****hole suburbs of dublin and inner city ghetto's spill there ****e into.
having said that,the locals are just as bad.

aleyra

Navan

its a hole of a town thats filled with scobes

and i am an unfortunate local.

Cant wait to leave it and never look back

PrivateEye

and i am an unfortunate local.

My condolences.

An 'orrible kip alright. Still, both Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran came from the place- so laughter can be found in anything. It's not what's IN Navan that makes it depressing, but what isn't. It's just.....boring?

Arklow is another dive I see mentioned....remember a trip there as a young lad, and not being too impressed at all. Again not so much 'dirty' as dull. Completely, out and out, 100% dull.

Carsinian Thau

Dingle.

Anything to wipe that grin off that smarmy dolphin's face.
Then we'll see who'll have the last laugh (and hopefully it'll be me because the continued embarrassment of being outsmarted by a dolphin is beginning to affect my self-esteem).

suckslikeafox

Longford deserves its place on that poll, what a kiphole. Nuke it to hell, il press the button myself

PS: Im from there so my hatred is justified

FirefoxDCU

CORK

lol

Jigsaw

I recently stopped for petrol in Dundalk and it was a pretty grim spot.

I remember staying a night in Arklow as a child and going to a really nice seafood restaurant and really enjoying the food.

Ballymena should be razed.

Larianne

Voted Bray as I didn't see Limerick. God that is a dodgy place, even at 8pm! And i've been to a few dodgy places around the world. Great shopping though.

mike65

mike65 wrote: »

Newcastle West in with a shout for me.

I guess the weather Gods agreed (soz for being several days late with this quip)

Mike.

portomar

FirefoxDCU wrote: »

CORK

lol

+1, why was this not in the poll? didnt vote, but after cork the h bomb on mullingar

walrusgumble

mullingar , ballinasloe, buncrana, bundoran, sligo, clara, tullamore,longford town, glenamaddy, tuam, castlerea, athlone

Blazer

Looks like the heroin junkies are running away with this poll
I have to laugh at the culchie comments as about 60% of Dublin's population are culchies,20% are tinkers, about 15% are eastern european and the other 5% are english half breeds.
100% are assholes

Madame Razz

County by County...or at least the counties that i've been to.....

Donegal: Carndonagh/Killybegs

Sligo: Ballymote

Leitrim: the county in general

Mayo: Castlebar/Ballyhaunis

Roscommon: Boyle

Galway: Gort/Ballinasloe, and everything roscommon side including Tuam

Clare: Carrigaholt

Kerry: Tralee/Ballyduff/Tarbert/Ballybunion..in fact nuke north kerry but leave the beaches!

Cork: Mallow/Macroom

Limerick: the county; we'd be better off without it

Tipperary: Templemore

Westmeath: Athlone/Moate/Kilbeggan

Offaly: Ferbane, and Daingean **shudder**

Laois: Portarlington/mountrath/Borris-on-Ossory

Waterford: Portlaw

Wicklow: Arklow/Bray

Wexford: haven't been there enough to comment

Louth: Never been

Cavan: Cavan, generally, we'd be better off

Monaghan: Haven't been there enough to comment

Dublin: Dublin

Kilkenny: meh

Carlow: Carlow

Kildare: Leixlip

Longford: Longford...generally

Meath: Navan

Wow, i've never been to Louth:o