Ireland's worst or most pointless 'visitor attractions'

Anyone

Mosney. Although the tourists must love it, those that visit it never leave.

johnwest288

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

That leprachaun thing on jervis st, total cringe when i walked past it each time

I had the misfortune of bringing some people on Holidays into that place.........
Now the staff i have to hand it to them were great... but my god....
Its a TOTAL EMBARRESMENT.

It looks like somthing some kids would put together for a school project. It really is WOEFUL

Sea Filly

Sleepy wrote: »

Have a read of Freakonomics. The broken windows theory was utterly debunked: New York got cleaned up because of Roe V Wade.

Basically, the scumbags were being aborted instead of dragged up by parents who didn't want them.

Monty Burnz wrote: »

Well no, I don't think it was 'totally' debunked - their Roe V. Wade theory is just an alternate explanation. It's pretty difficult to prove things like that conclusively though.

Agree with Monty here. Both are likely contributary factors.

LincolnsBeard

That cable car that looks like it's about to snap and kill every passenger inside.

Paparazzo

Deleted User wrote: »

Never been but the Blarney Stone sounds fairly crap..

I doubt any irish person has ever visited the blarney stone.

Run_to_da_hills

Rhand wrote: »

The Spire in Dublin.

More to the point, (excuse pun )

Way was there a masonic pagan structure attributed to the ancient Egyptian sun god ra to placed on our main capital thorofare at tax payers expense?.

gobnaitolunacy

Crap ones I've been at:

West Clare Railway: Emailed in advance to see if it was going to be open, when we got there, nothing, nada, bugger all, all locked up, not even a note of explanation posted up. A pure cowboy operation with the makings of a scrapyard (ahem, exhibits!) across the road. A couple with kids that came up from Tralee were similarly disappointed.

West Cork Model Village: Didn't even bother to run the trains whilst I was there. Still charged full whack.

Blennerville Steam railway: A giant train set that Tralee Town Council seem to have gotten tired of playing with. No great shakes when it was open, a short ride with much jolting and lurching. Now a howling wilderness with rusting, dismantled and vandalised stock.

Monty Burnz

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

More to the point, (excuse pun )

Way was there a masonic pagan structure attributed to the ancient Egyptian sun god ra to placed on our main capital thorofare at tax payers expense?.

Where is that?

gobnaitolunacy

Monty Burnz wrote: »

Where is that?

He's referring to the Spire, not at all to honour Ra, but a phallic symbol to honour the d*ckheads who ruined the country.

Monty Burnz

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

He's referring to the Spire, not at all to honour Ra, but a phallic symbol to honour the d*ckheads who ruined the country.

Well it can't be the Spire, because he says it's 'attributed to the Egyptian Sun god Ra'.

Perhaps he means the Jim Larkin statue.

Riddle101

This thread has opened my eyes as to how sh!t Ireland's tourism is. All i've gotten is that these so called tourism attractions are overpriced and dull places.

Rip off Ireland indeed:

Borderfox

At least you dont have to pay into the hill of Tara or put up with obnoxious OPW f**kwits.

Howjoe1 wrote: »

I'll probably get flak for this but:

The Hill of Tara

It really is just a grass hill where the only thing you need to do is avoid the sheep and cow **** while walking.

At least at, say, Newgrange, there is a visible attraction.

Nodin

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

More to the point, (excuse pun )

Way was there a masonic pagan structure attributed to the ancient Egyptian sun god ra to placed on our main capital thorofare at tax payers expense?.

That'd be the Dublin in your dimension.

Davidth88

You know my heart sinks when I see the words

Interpretative centre

Usually an ugly building attached to an area of historic significance , that charges you stupid money to tell you what you already knew , and house the shop that sells the usual tat , and an overpriced coffee shop

Emmet Manning 99

The magic road

Rasheed

Emmet Manning 99 wrote: »

The magic road

Is that the one that yout car wont roll down on?

christmas2012

another one would be the rock of cashel or that blarney stone,one of the biggest let downs ever - out in a field with nothing for miles just stuck there walk for ages to get an overpriced cup of well i wouldnt call it coffee more like pond water and a grain of coffee in it..
been there on a family thing over ten years ago was a young un didnt see what the fuss was about,thought it was far too over rated,did a few things like that when i was younger school tours to the one in cork,thought it was a dreadful waste of time,the only thing i got out of it was a dodgy picture and an overpriced postcard at blarney wollen mills..not worth it

starviewadams

Tourist's seem to love that Molly Malone statue for some reason.I know she has a fine pair of jelliers for a statue and all,but I don't really get why there's always a good sized group standing around it listening to some annoying looking tourist bint waffling on about it and then lining up to get photos taken beside Molly!

yermanoffthetv

Emmet Manning 99 wrote: »

The magic road

It impressed the heck out of me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKDE4lzCqcg

Giruilla

The people.

Truley

ZombieBride wrote: »

Ceide Fields, you drive into the middle of no where for a weird pyramid, it's weird.

+1

I also have reservations about the info centre's historical accuracy. Their little model people from the Stone Age looked like something straight out of the Flintstones

gobnaitolunacy

Davidth88 wrote: »

You know my heart sinks when I see the words

Interpretative centre

Usually an ugly building attached to an area of historic significance , that charges you stupid money to tell you what you already knew , and house the shop that sells the usual tat , and an overpriced coffee shop

I know. If the Cliffs of Moher were in Australia, all they'd have is a large display board with a description on how it was formed etc etc, couple of litter bins and a lookout point where you'd take pics FOR NO CHARGE. You'd swear people were complete imbeciles that they'd want a whole centre to explain it for them!

Having said that, the better (and free!) Museums in Dublin are quite good, world class attractions. I don't want to set out as a 'knock everything Irish' thread.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

eth0 wrote: »

The Cliffs of Moher visitor centre. A thing that looks like the teletubby house and cost 30 million to build. All the arsin about they done at that site was completely unnecessary.

The worst is now they want, or have installed (i don't know) a paywall around the whole Cliffs of moher area just to force people to pay an entry fee so they can reclaim the money they should never have spent on the visitor centre that nobody wants to go into.

Here's a tip for anyone wanting to go to the Cliffs of Moher.. Get the Cliffs of Moher cruise from Doolin. You'll still be paying to look at the cliffs, but only because you're getting a great view of them from boat out at sea. Plus, there are loads of dolphins that follow the boats.

Lyaiera

Owen_S wrote: »

The Spire is a useful navigation tool for culchies visiting the city, I'd be lost without it.

They should have made it with Waven pipes.

coolbeans

Master of Nothing wrote: »

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Think he means the Wellington Monument.

The Wellington Memorial There's the answer to a tricky pub quiz question btw, no need to thank me
.

It's the wrong answer to a tricky pub quiz. It's actually called the Wellington Testimonial just like in football as it was built when he was still alive. It would have only been a memorial if it was built after his death. But it wasn't, so it's a testimonial. I like it. The depictions of the various campaigns are quite cool.

If that awful casino is ever built in Tipp I'll encourage somebody to suicide bomb it. Included in the app was a life size version of the White House. Yes, the one in Washington. Crass vandalism.

eth0

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Here's a tip for anyone wanting to go to the Cliffs of Moher.. Get the Cliffs of Moher cruise from Doolin. You'll still be paying to look at the cliffs, but only because you're getting a great view of them from boat out at sea. Plus, there are loads of dolphins that follow the boats.

Is it still possible to go in for free late in the evening or have they the whole place sealed off with barbed wire and electric fences installed by the most expensive lad they could find?

annascott

Dublin

eth0

coolbeans wrote: »

It's the wrong answer to a tricky pub quiz. It's actually called the Wellington Testimonial just like in football as it was built when he was still alive. It would have only been a memorial if it was built after his death. But it wasn't, so it's a testimonial. I like it. The depictions of the various campaigns are quite cool.

If that awful casino is ever built in Tipp I'll encourage somebody to suicide bomb it. Included in the app was a life size version of the White House. Yes, the one in Washington. Crass vandalism.

If they also built that massive outsourcing to China centre then you should spare the casino because thats the only way you'll get a few bob back out of the Chinese

Gee Bag

coolbeans wrote: »

If that awful casino is ever built in Tipp I'll encourage somebody to suicide bomb it.

I nominate Dana for the job. We could all do with a good news story.

bluecode

annascott wrote: »

Dublin

You're a bit late, all the culchie Dub haters got their dig in much earlier in this thread.

Fry Model Railway in Malahide - tiny!

There is a clue in it's name:p

As for the cliffs of Moher they hardly qualify as pointless or worst. They are seriously impressive even if you get ripped off now in order to see them.

iguana

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

dear god i thought you were joking

You should see the Richard Harris statue.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o259/limerickblogger/limerickblogger-2/P9070022.jpg

Riddle101

iguana wrote: »

You should see the Richard Harris statue.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o259/limerickblogger/limerickblogger-2/P9070022.jpg

Is that Pat Mustard behind the statue?:D

gobnaitolunacy

Quote:
Fry Model Railway in Malahide - tiny!

There is a clue in it's name

Run by a couple of oul' fellas who hated the sight of kids.

Marcusm

criticalcritic wrote: »

Nelsons Monument in Phoenix Park

An ugly big lump to commemorate the pompus Brits victory over the pompus French, named after an Irishman who hated Ireland
Well the Brits areant in charge anymore so lets blow it up

Oh yea and the Spire, I can only imagineits a tribute to Inner City Dublins youth fondness for sharp things

Don't think Nelson had much of an Irish connection nor a monument in the Phoenix Park; do you mean Wellington?

Marcusm

the groutch wrote: »

that's what the GPO is for

Clerys Clock!

Precious flower

Hate what they've done to the cliffs! That visitor center!:mad: Makes it so tacky not to mention the fact that they charge people for parking and almost everything else! I heard though that because I'm from Clare I could register myself to see the cliffs for free. The joy! :rolleyes:

nbar12

Howth

JustAThought

Em.
At the moment apart from the dire spire; Malahide castle which has been locked & for some odd reason the front few acres barricaded off so that even the few tourists who battle tbrough the no signposts, rain & mud can't even get a photo of them in front of it.
Latest update; tourist case will reopenen after over year... In October.

The same fingal county council also evicted the Frys Model Railway over a year & a half ago & fecked a lot of their collections posters, signage & poster boards & collections of books into a skip. To make way for a cafe or shop...still not opened.

Biggest wasters ever at a tourist site.

lisa_celtic

The National Museum of Country Life

In Mayo never been but they have loads of signs for it!

nbar12

lisa_celtic wrote: »

The National Museum of Country Life

In Mayo never been but they have loads of signs for it!

sounds fairly ****e tbh

gobnaitolunacy

lisa_celtic wrote: »

The National Museum of Country Life

In Mayo never been but they have loads of signs for it!

Been, nice staff but 'meh'.

Also, no offence to Mayo...it is a 'bit out of the way' and that's being charitable.

All the tourist "pound shops" with the proprietor sounding like Ronnie Drew.

Jester252

Farms

gozunda

I think the Cliffs of Moher should be twinned with the Giants Causeway....both overhyped view with a loo and pee with a tea joints....:rolleyes:

Chuchoter

The Leprechaun Museum.

Dafuq?

chughes

Temple Bar.

Logical Fallacy

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

That leprachaun thing on jervis st, total cringe when i walked past it each time

Did you ever go into it?

Some pretty cool **** in there tbh.

Acacia

The atrocious Leprechaun Museum, hands down. I went with a friend, just to give it a chance. Complete waste of time and money. It's hard to pick out the worst feature. The 'Big Room' with large versions of everyday stuff- what is the fcuking point? So I can feel like Leprachaun? That's just laziness. Or the 'rainbow' that was literally coloured strings hanging from a doorway. Maybe the unbelievebly lame story-telling at the end. Even the kids that were there that day were bored out of their minds. I knew it would be tacky, but to be that downright half-arsed was unforgiveable. The whole experience reminded me of the funfair episode of 'Father Ted'.

The worst part is, the mythology around fairies/ folklore is really, really interesting and there really should be a dedicated museum based around it as it's such a large part of our culture.Not this pathetic pile of crap on Jervis St.

Rant over.

gobnaitolunacy

Acacia wrote: »

The worst part is, the mythology around fairies/ folklore is really, really interesting and there really should be a dedicated museum based around it as it's such a large part of our culture.Not this pathetic pile of crap on Jervis St.

Rant over.

They had well, not quite a museum, remember Celtworld?
Whatever happened to that?

robp

Red Hand wrote: »

Cork Butter Museum.

(Google it, it is a genuine museum)

I haven't been there but by every description its seems alot my significant than its name gives credit for.