Best & Worst County Tipperary towns

Amtmann

The problem in Irish (and British) society seems particularly acute to me. I have lived in three German settlements - two cities and a town - and never once saw the equivalent of the type of hooded, tracksuited yobs you get here.

eileen27

Lots of negativity on here! I live in Tipp and spend a lot of time in towns such as Thurles, Cashel, and Clonmel. These places are great if you take them for what they are. All places have the bad element so just try and avoid but they all have a great community vibe, are on the main friendly. They don't have all the amenities the cities have but we are on the main routes to these cities so not a problem for me. Im a blow in and I wouldn't live anywhere else!

Sigma Force

Have been trying to get out of Tip. county for years..almost there give or take a year or two but I'll get out of here eventually, it's all sh*te.
But saying that Thurles has improved, you'll get scumbags in every town no matter how nice it is and there's trouble esp. on wkend in every town etc. etc. but Thurles has got all the mod cons. good schools, shops and places to eat and more than enough pubs to choose from. The traffic's and lack of car parks is a pain though.
There are some sh*te parts of town though but again you get them everywhere.

Best thing though is the road out of it.

@Tremelo Germany's full of the equivilent of hoodies but they tend to spend more time around railway stations and on the S bahn.
If there's any trouble though the cops have guns so methinks that helps, whereas here it's 'on ye go lads' and off they go to another side of the st. it's the chuggers that are worse than the hoodies though but again that's a problem in every town and city in this country atm.

squeakyduck

Went to school in Carrick on Suir, it is a bit of a hole, lots of scum, but there are alot of nice people, it could do with sprucing up but it would probably be all destroyed after a few yobs coming out of the "Carraig dikko" after a few too many.

Cahir is a gorgeous little town, nice and quite. Love the castle, I used to visit it every year as a child and food in the Galtee inn? I'd love to have a nice dinner in there now....always good food and nice people

JP Liz V1

As an outsider I do agree Tipp town itself isnt great but I spent some time in Clonmel and Thurles and seemed like nice spots I got on well there

charlemont

This picture is going around on Facebook, Its at the Parnell St BOI cash machine, Please do not view if you are eating or have a weak stomach...

Its the worst Iv ever seen....


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DJKendo

charlemont wrote: »

This picture is going around on Facebook, Its at the Parnell St BOI cash machine, Please do not view if you are eating or have a weak stomach...

Its the worst Iv ever seen....


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is it going around on Facebook?

I saw that picture ages ago :S

ReacherCreature

Ah humanity at its finest.

jprboy

charlemont wrote: »

This picture is going around on Facebook, Its at the Parnell St BOI cash machine, Please do not view if you are eating or have a weak stomach...

Its the worst Iv ever seen....


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Your deposit cannot be accepted at this time........

ciano1

That picture has been going around for YEARS!

DT100

All in all...Its just another s**t in the wall...................................

Deedsie

Nenagh is a great town. Sure we have scum bags, but we also have far far more decent hard working people. Great characters in the town. I am proud of my roots in Nenagh. I had a great up bringing there.

OwaynOTT

Just been reading through the thread and cannot believe Roscre has only been mentioned three times and only in passing at that.

It's an absolute heckhole. There isn't even a decent pub anymore, only one restaurant if you don't like eating the greasy chinese food that's on offer and let's face the Italian is dyer as well. The food is okay but the service is at a snails pace.

Full of bookies with a load of particular people hanging around outside it and the bleedin' pens in them are devoid of ink.

Not one half decent cafe in it, The Rosewood is depressing.

The Tesco in it is a kip and the big one that they are building is only going to ruin the town. Half the shops are empty or they only open for couple of months. The range of shops is poor as well.

No bookshop and the selection in the library is lacking. It does have two video stores which is weird for its size.

The school, the only secondary school in it, is over crowded and the teachers are either lacking in skills are just don't care.

It looks scruffy all the time and the architecture is depressing.
The post office nearly closed.
The Central House pub on the main street has been closed for years and only recently got a lick of paint.

Anywhere you go in Ireland when you mention your from Roscrea you get a look that or they just ask 'where's that?'

Clareboy

There are some really historic and intersting towns in Co. Tipperary. My favourites are Roscrea, Cashel, Cahir and Clonmel. Holycross is a gem of a village - what an Irish village should look like.

Kaneda_

Clonmel is half-decent.Scum bags are in every city,town and village in ireland!

Every town has 'things to do'.Most towns have a gym,pool, soccer club, GAA clubs, amoung others - people just get caught up in 'going out and getting pissed' which not only gets old and less fun as you get abit older- it also makes you less interested in things that you really enjoy! and to add to that its an expensive past-time.

If you lived in london,like i have or any other major city you also get bored and want a change of scenery,and EVERYWHERE is better when you have money in your pocket!

Lady Chatterton

I think Ballina/Killaloe, Portroe, Garrykennedy, and Dromineer are incrediibly scenic parts of North Tipperary! I'm not very familiar with South Tipp I'm afraid.

Sar_Bear

Worst have to be Roscrea and Tipp Town.. Just awful!
Garrykennedy is beautiful, Templemore isn't bad either!!

bogs

Im a proud kilkenny man and have lived in Carrick on Suir for fourteen years and i have never been harassed threatened or provoked here since i moved in.Im not involved in any social aspects of the town but there seems to be a very vibrant social aspect to the place with regards to sport,drama opera,athletics,festivals,literary clubs,youth organisations,river walks,fishing to name but some and one otherthing to remember that the courthouse in the town takes in Tipp,Kilkenny and waterford areas so when you look at the court cases in Carrick on Suir on your local paper keep this in mind.One other thing i almost forgot to mention is Comeragh College which seems to have gained a superb academical rapour in the last 10 to 15 years.So maybe not all is lost for Carrick on Suir.

tipster

cashel would be one of the good ones cahir not too bad clonmel and carrick not nice and fethard worst of them all

chris2008x

This thread is really stupid. All the towns in Tipperary have positives and negatives but that doesn't mean one town is better than the rest. I don't dislike a single area in Tipperary. I dislike the anti-social behaviours in these towns but its a small majority doing it. Stop bashing these towns as you are painting everybody with the same brush. Sure some of these town have high unemployment, crime, chavs/skangers, drug dealers, unmarried mothers (which isn't a big deal these days for us who stopped been Catholic) Goths, Emos, Murderers, and rapists etc but how can you judge a whole community by just a very small handful of people who lets say certainly won't win person of the year in the towns. Most of these towns have heritage and really interesting history, brilliant locally run businesses and top third level colleges, great music, arts. Can name hundreds more things that great about all Tipperary towns. Bash the terrible people who carry out all the unpleasant things not the whole communities.

What should really be criticized is the poor public transport between all towns in Tipperary. How a number of people in Nenagh were never even down the south of the county. Or people in Cahir/Carrick on Suir/Tipperary town finding it really difficult to go and support their county because there is no public transport to Thurles. (I am aware about the train line. Although the train service exists to Limerick Junction from Waterford, which then brings you to Thurles by changing trains on the mainline the timetable is really crap)

Sar_Bear

Someone is taking this a bit too seriously..

Xenophile

Sar_Bear wrote: »

Someone is taking this a bit too seriously..

I would not agree, I think it's great that people are passionate about their convictions especially when they are well motivated and coming from a good place. So well done to everybody who has put some positive effort into this thread. I deplore posters of glib one liners being thanked!

grenache

Yep. Judging from this thread, Tipp should definitely be split in two!

Most of the North Tipp folk i know have rarely ventured into southern territory, and vice versa for the South Tipp people im acquainted with.

Think we're all agreed though that Tipp Town wins this contest by some considerable distance!

JabbaTheHut

grenache wrote: »

Think we're all agreed though that Tipp Town wins this contest by some considerable distance!

For the best or worst though?

dirtyden

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Just been reading through the thread and cannot believe Roscre has only been mentioned three times and only in passing at that.

It's an absolute heckhole. There isn't even a decent pub anymore, only one restaurant if you don't like eating the greasy chinese food that's on offer and let's face the Italian is dyer as well. The food is okay but the service is at a snails pace.

Full of bookies with a load of particular people hanging around outside it and the bleedin' pens in them are devoid of ink.

Not one half decent cafe in it, The Rosewood is depressing.

The Tesco in it is a kip and the big one that they are building is only going to ruin the town. Half the shops are empty or they only open for couple of months. The range of shops is poor as well.

No bookshop and the selection in the library is lacking. It does have two video stores which is weird for its size.

The school, the only secondary school in it, is over crowded and the teachers are either lacking in skills are just don't care.

It looks scruffy all the time and the architecture is depressing.
The post office nearly closed.
The Central House pub on the main street has been closed for years and only recently got a lick of paint.

Anywhere you go in Ireland when you mention your from Roscrea you get a look that or they just ask 'where's that?'

The church/abbey grounds are amazing though.

Apart from that the town is pretty shabby alright.

Ildere

toomevara wrote: »

Nenagh? Are you quite mad!!!!! Born and bred there. living away, but everytyime I return home the slide toward every greater sh1tholery continues apace. A cesspit, which on Saturday night is the closest thing you'll get to a bad night in Baghdad without getting sand in your shoes..dear lord I'd rather spend a night in Kabul....dressed as a lady boy...wearing a 'feck Osama Bin Laden' T-shirt....carrying an american flag....

If user user name is the place you are from, then you should understand that there is a hatred from your place for Nayna and your opinion of nayna is infected with a GAA type of begrudgery.
But to be fair if Toome was the only place where a man could get a drink, I would gladly die of thirst rather than stop there.
That would mean I suppose that the feeling is mutual.

Its a peculiar thing though that the GAA divides communities both at parish and county level and the exact opposite is the case with Rugby.
All can unite to support Munster.

But anyway back to the topic, I always say when I pass through Tipp town that some day I would stop for a pint in the Maid of Erin but in the last 10 years I havent done that because the vibe I get tells me I'll be better off to keep going.
Its Tipp town for me.

twistyj

Ildere wrote: »

I would stop for a pint in the Maid of Erin but in the last 10 years I havent done that because the vibe I get tells me I'll be better off to keep going.
Its Tipp town for me.

The Maid is one of the better pubs in Tipp, you should stop there, Quinnos just up from that is the one you should have the "vibe" about. In the Maid, Mike the owner and the clientele are very welcoming and it is probably the most lively pub in town. Also yes the Gaa is clannish but we are Irish and clannish by our history, and i agree that Toomevara is on a high horse with it but i assure you most towns in TS are not like that. When Dutch teams Ajax, Feyernoord and FC Utrecht meet they kick seven kinds out of eachother and they are only so far apart. Everyone may unite for Munster but they all usually fall within the same tax bracket.

callaway92

Ildere wrote: »

If user user name is the place you are from, then you should understand that there is a hatred from your place for Nayna and your opinion of nayna is infected with a GAA type of begrudgery.
But to be fair if Toome was the only place where a man could get a drink, I would gladly die of thirst rather than stop there.
That would mean I suppose that the feeling is mutual.

Its a peculiar thing though that the GAA divides communities both at parish and county level and the exact opposite is the case with Rugby.
All can unite to support Munster.

But anyway back to the topic, I always say when I pass through Tipp town that some day I would stop for a pint in the Maid of Erin but in the last 10 years I havent done that because the vibe I get tells me I'll be better off to keep going.
Its Tipp town for me.

All of this North Tipp chat is making me queazy

Ildere

twistyj wrote: »

The Maid is one of the better pubs in Tipp, you should stop there, Quinnos just up from that is the one you should have the "vibe" about. In the Maid, Mike the owner and the clientele are very welcoming and it is probably the most lively pub in town. Also yes the Gaa is clannish but we are Irish and clannish by our history, and i agree that Toomevara is on a high horse with it but i assure you most towns in TS are not like that. When Dutch teams Ajax, Feyernoord and FC Utrecht meet they kick seven kinds out of eachother and they are only so far apart. Everyone may unite for Munster but they all usually fall within the same tax bracket.

Thanks for that and I will call to The Maid.
I get what you say about the tax bracket But in some towns, and Nenagh is one, that does not apply and from my knowledge the same could be said of most of the Limerick clubs with one or two only exceptions filling your description.

Ildere

callaway92 wrote: »

All of this North Tipp chat is making me queazy

Big Phil is bringing us together.

tinyk68

I have a foot in both camps. My mother was from north tipp, my dad a Clonmel man. I grew up in Clonmel and think it's a great town. There are rough areas like there are everywhere but it has lots going for it too. I love the setting at the foot of the Comeragh mountains and when I'm away from home the mountains are what I miss the most.

In north tipp I think Dromineer is lovely although it's a village rather than a town. In fact Lough Derg is the best thing about north tipp. The town are so-so.

BanshaMan

In defence of Tipperary Town:

Tipp Town has a Sports Complex that is the envy of every town in the county.

Tipp Town has an entertainment centre that outranks most towns and some cities in Munster - The Excel Centre in Tipperary Town.

Are we overlooking the good points and highlighting the bad points to isolate Tipp Town as the worst town in Tipperary?

On another idea........ Is it healthy for any Tipperary person to look around for the WORST in our society? Would it not benefit us more to look for the best around us?

From a personal point of view, I believe that Tipperary North and South has been sold down the river by sharper operators than Lowry. Bigger and better parliamentarians (liars in everyday dialect) have scooped the pot and left us with nothing.

How can we grow Tipperary in the future?

Vizzy

Great post and can be applied to any town in Tipp or elsewhere.
Why do we continue to constantly knock everything that is good about our town/sportsmen/lifestyle/countryside etc. ?

callaway92

BanshaMan wrote: »

In defence of Tipperary Town:

Tipp Town has a Sports Complex that is the envy of every town in the county.

Tipp Town has an entertainment centre that outranks most towns and some cities in Munster - The Excel Centre in Tipperary Town.

Are we overlooking the good points and highlighting the bad points to isolate Tipp Town as the worst town in Tipperary?

On another idea........ Is it healthy for any Tipperary person to look around for the WORST in our society? Would it not benefit us more to look for the best around us?

From a personal point of view, I believe that Tipperary North and South has been sold down the river by sharper operators than Lowry. Bigger and better parliamentarians (liars in everyday dialect) have scooped the pot and left us with nothing.

How can we grow Tipperary in the future?

No...It is just THAT bad I'm afraid.

DaveJac

BanshaMan wrote: »

In defence of Tipperary Town:

Tipp Town has an entertainment centre that outranks most towns and some cities in Munster - The Excel Centre in Tipperary Town.
?

You have been in there ya?? the main stage/cinema is very uncomfortable even since it was redone, the cinemas up stairs are alot better but they dont have a great varity of films on gernerally have to travel to get most films. I hear its just about keeping afloat too might even go under i know i give out about it but its better than nothing, day one if the greedy people that own the building beside it sold that too it would have been a much better place

Black Suir

MickTipp wrote: »

i see they have a similar topic on the Limerick county forum!!

so who do ye think are the best and worst towns in tipp??

Sorry to the people living there but Tipp Town in a dive.

There are good and bad in town's,city's countries,the world over...always have been,always will be...you just hope you meet the good one's.

BanshaMan

callaway92 wrote: »

No...It is just THAT bad I'm afraid.

You're welcome to your opinion but tell me one thing that is bad about the Knockanrawley Resource Centre? A wonderful example of civic spirit in one of the most under-resourced areas of the county.

deejer

This is a depressing thread.

Fine, Tipp town isnt great but it has been very harshly treated over the last 20years. Alot of jobs have been lost there. It certainly hasnt got much support from any of its TD's. Martin Mansergh was more interested in peace in the north than looking after his local town.

Cashel has its tourism which always guarantees investment. Thurles, Clonmel and Nenagh are big enough to look after themselves. Dont know much about Roscrea to be honest. That leaves Tipp and Carrick and it seems Tipp seems to be the target of most of the abuse I have to call it.

Its a fine town with fine people who are making a good job of very little support from outside. It has its rough element but what town doesnt anymore. Lets try support our small towns instead of walking all over them.

jimmydkid

BanshaMan wrote: »

In defence of Tipperary Town:

Tipp Town has a Sports Complex that is the envy of every town in the county.

Tipp Town has an entertainment centre that outranks most towns and some cities in Munster - The Excel Centre in Tipperary Town.

Are we overlooking the good points and highlighting the bad points to isolate Tipp Town as the worst town in Tipperary?

On another idea........ Is it healthy for any Tipperary person to look around for the WORST in our society? Would it not benefit us more to look for the best around us?
From a personal point of view, I believe that Tipperary North and South has been sold down the river by sharper operators than Lowry. Bigger and better parliamentarians (liars in everyday dialect) have scooped the pot and left us with nothing.

How can we grow Tipperary in the future?

Nice to hear a bit of common sense been spoken

twistyj

All the Tipp Town lads say hello!



Hello!

cocoshovel

Carrick on-suir. Horrible.

bogs

EKRIUQ wrote: »

Tipp town only because its so close to Limerick but Carrick On Suir and Thurles have to be up there as well

I take it your not a Carrick man and neither am I have dealings with the town on a weekly/daily basis and from what i can see its one of the towns thats been slated continuously for its bad behaviour and lack of business.May I say that it has a very low crime rate and that can be verified by Garda statistics.True theres no industry in the town worth mentioning with the excepyion of Glan Bia on the Clonmel Rd but you may well put that down to past Governments lack of interest in the place due mainly to its geographical location and lack of decent representatives at government level.People in Carrick had the chance to elect local TDs over the years but due to small mindedness thinking this is the situation Carrick is left in over the years.

pontia

hello banshaman,would you know such a chap as tom quirke ?

Vizzy

bogs wrote: »

I take it your not a Carrick man and neither am I have dealings with the town on a weekly/daily basis and from what i can see its one of the towns thats been slated continuously for its bad behaviour and lack of business.May I say that it has a very low crime rate and that can be verified by Garda statistics.True theres no industry in the town worth mentioning with the excepyion of Glan Bia on the Clonmel Rd but you may well put that down to past Governments lack of interest in the place due mainly to its geographical location and lack of decent representatives at government level.People in Carrick had the chance to elect local TDs over the years but due to small mindedness thinking this is the situation Carrick is left in over the years.

I'd have to agree 100% with this post.
Worked in Carrick for 4 years and I loved every minute of it.The people were very friendly and very warm.Made loads of friends there who are still friends to this day.
Unfortunately there are no families where there is/was three generations of people who have never worked and this will make it extremely difficult to employ the current generation(that and the fact that there is no "big" employer there)

popebenny16

two more shops have closed in roscrea recently, then last week the rosewood cafe in the shopping centre went, the sweet shop went, news and views is closing down next.

oddly the application to turn the old tesco into a cimena was turned down, but we got a rubbish 2euro store instead.

meanwhile the new tescos remains a travesty in the middle of the town, ruining the place. how they got away with it i do not know.

in templemore, copper jacks pub has closed, joining the closed abrakebabra in the middle of the main street. there was a time when it would be unheard of for to be a closed shop bewteen the town hall and O'Dohertys, now there are three.

DEFTLEFTHAND

popebenny16 wrote: »

two more shops have closed in roscrea recently, then last week the rosewood cafe in the shopping centre went, the sweet shop went, news and views is closing down next.

oddly the application to turn the old tesco into a cimena was turned down, but we got a rubbish 2euro store instead.

meanwhile the new tescos remains a travesty in the middle of the town, ruining the place. how they got away with it i do not know.

in templemore, copper jacks pub has closed, joining the closed abrakebabra in the middle of the main street. there was a time when it would be unheard of for to be a closed shop bewteen the town hall and O'Dohertys, now there are three.

Looks like Grove Motors out the Birr Road in Roscrea has also gone. The town is dying, its very sad. I never thought things could go this badly wrong for us. With the likes of Antigen and the meat factory it was always a busy commercial town in the past.

popebenny16

yes i heard about grove motors yesterday, closed overnight.

i seem to remember that there was to be a magor jobs announcement for roscrea last spring. was it in the star or tipp fm?? anyway, it didnt happen.

the antigen plant no longer has any security presence.

its not just here of course, templemore has it too as i posted before. then there is the now closed and soon to be abandoned outlet in rathdowney.

what i dont get is - who objected to the idea of a cinema where tescos used to be in roscrea shopping centre??? thats nuts.

popebenny16

just for comedic relief...

in templemore there are new works going on in the main street/square apparently at the behest of the NRA as the N62 goes through the town.

The idea is to prevent the random parking along the road in the middle of the square, where people park up to the broken yellow line.

So they have put in cerbing and paths (also taken out two mature trees for no reason I should add) to prevent it.

lo and behold, on saturday at noon, some old dear who would always park across from peters fruit and veg shop, right against the yellow line in the square (the boundary of the road so to speak) parked right beside the new path, thus completely blocking one side of the road. All the other motorists were giving out, but she just got out, locked up, walked across the road (not the predestrian crossing about ten feet away) and went about her shopping. Cue chaos which was only resolved when, after getting her veg, she got back in and drove away.

bawn79

popebenny16 wrote: »

just for comedic relief...

in templemore there are new works going on in the main street/square apparently at the behest of the NRA as the N62 goes through the town.

The idea is to prevent the random parking along the road in the middle of the square, where people park up to the broken yellow line.

So they have put in cerbing and paths (also taken out two mature trees for no reason I should add) to prevent it.

lo and behold, on saturday at noon, some old dear who would always park across from peters fruit and veg shop, right against the yellow line in the square (the boundary of the road so to speak) parked right beside the new path, thus completely blocking one side of the road. All the other motorists were giving out, but she just got out, locked up, walked across the road (not the predestrian crossing about ten feet away) and went about her shopping. Cue chaos which was only resolved when, after getting her veg, she got back in and drove away.

Worse place I ever saw for double-parking was around the square in Cahir. Absolute abandonment of cars!