Most grim places in Ireland

NoCrackHaving

Portarlington.....

OrgasmicBaz

Darndale

ElKavo

The Swan, Co Laois.

AgileMyth

Riamfada wrote: »

Sligo ... Was there once in the winter for a conference in the IT. It was so Soviet. Cold and desolate. A bit like 1984 meets Eraserhead. The locals were not anything better . Parked at lights and some unassuming old man waiting to cross the road shakes his fists and yells "**** off back to Dublin ya *****".

Someone had to tell you.

We should put signs up for you thick dubs on the way in warning that it might be cold in winter.

harry Bailey esq

Balbriggan.It was a lovely town to live in once,but greedy developers,shoddy houses and apartments,and planning that's baffling have led to many social problems in the town.The area worst hit by this is generally referred to as 'new balbriggan' or 'legoland' plenty of houses boarded up around there which is odd to see because most of the developments are less than a decade old.The town is notable because it has about 40chippers/Indians/Chineses/pizza places,there are towns 4 times the size of balbriggan that have less fast food outlets,great for choice but fast food outlets give the place a shabby look.Somebody also mentioned travellers in an earlier post (somebody always does) but I won't give my opinion on them here,except to say that the travellers in balbriggan give other travellers a bad name.There are some nice areas of balbriggan of course,but the place is no longer the fine town it once was.

Ch1me

Screen in Co Wexford

the evasion_kid

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Balbriggan.It was a lovely town to live in once,but greedy developers,shoddy houses and apartments,and planning that's baffling have led to many social problems in the town.The area worst hit by this is generally referred to as 'new balbriggan' or 'legoland' plenty of houses boarded up around there which is odd to see because most of the developments are less than a decade old.The town is notable because it has about 40chippers/Indians/Chineses/pizza places,there are towns 4 times the size of balbriggan that have less fast food outlets,great for choice but fast food outlets give the place a shabby look.Somebody also mentioned travellers in an earlier post (somebody always does) but I won't give my opinion on them here,except to say that the travellers in balbriggan give other travellers a bad name.There are some nice areas of balbriggan of course,but the place is no longer the fine town it once was.

Utter kip....I felt safer in east st.louis

brinty

the whole county of kilkenny

J Mysterio

JupiterKid wrote: »

Portadown
Athy
Tipperary Town
Ballymena
Longford town
Tuam

Tipp town? Jasus. It's not exactly modern but I always thought it had a certain charm to it. It remains for me a kind of old Irish town. I like all the independent businesses and quirks of it.

leinsterdude

Citywest shopping centre, my god the people you see there, everyone parks right in front of the KFC and off licence, poor security guards afraid to say anything, always feels like trouble about to begin.

J Mysterio

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Decided to take a detour into Rathkeale yesterday for a gawk on my way back from Kerry. A right kip. All boarded up buildings and closed shops. Every building had a protected by CCTV sign on it. Utterly grim.

Really is an absolute shìthole.

I always think the area from Bunclody to Wexford or Carlow, bascily parts of rural Wicklow, Wexford and Carlow look very bleak and economically deprived although around mount Leinster is very scenic.

Cantona's Collars

Ch1me wrote: »

Screen in Co Wexford

There's nothing in Screen to make it grim,it's just a tiny village everyone passes through on the way to the beach.

Bridgetown - now that is grim.

harry Bailey esq

J Mysterio wrote: »

Tipp town? Jasus. It's not exactly modern but I always thought it had a certain charm to it. It remains for me a kind of old Irish town. I like all the independent businesses and quirks of it.

That may be true,but ill tell you something for nothing,tipp town is a dangerous place if your a Dublin fella out on the pull on a Saturday night! If I had the choice again id sooner take my chances and go on the beer in a city like Kingston,
cape town or juarez

bodhrandude

Mullingar with its Joe Dolan statue.

leinsterdude

Longford town .... Very mixed folk

Joe Doe

Duggy747 wrote: »

My toilet.
And yes, I have told tourists not to go near it.

Busáras's toilets, and most of the tourists/business travelers have no choice but to avail of it at some stage, usually on way to airport etc.

Compare it to Belfast Europa or Ldn Victoria and the latter two are like the Ritz.

Tourism Ireland should investigate. Heard x3 visitors complain separately within 15 seconds the shocking state state. No soap, no driers, no doors etc...

the evasion_kid

Joe Doe wrote: »

Busáras's toilets, and most of the tourists/business travelers have no choice but to avail of it at some stage, usually on way to airport etc.

Compare it to Belfast Europa or Ldn Victoria and the latter two are like the Ritz.

Tourism Ireland should investigate. Heard x3 visitors complain separately within 15 seconds the shocking state state. No soap, no driers, no doors etc...

Blue fluorescent lights....never a good sign!

IrishCule

Definitely Portarlington. Having to get the train from there leaves me with nightmares.

Joe Doe

Think even the blue lights were busted....
Not sure but thought I glimpsed a sign on the wall apologising for the state of them, maybe it's an 'industrial dispute' matter...

BUBBLES1978

o connell street, monasterevin, kildare town, bundoran,

AudreyHepburn

Tuam....full of 'settled' itinerants and their grotty, unkept houses! Woeful!

leinsterdude

BUBBLES1978 wrote: »

o connell street, monasterevin, kildare town, bundoran,

Monasterevin is not as bad as it was, improved a good bit.

DoYouEvenLift

Pretty much most parts of Laois and Offaly, there's a shopping centre in Laois that can send you into depression

Pumpkinseeds

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Decided to take a detour into Rathkeale yesterday for a gawk on my way back from Kerry. A right kip. All boarded up buildings and closed shops. Every building had a protected by CCTV sign on it. Utterly grim.

It'll be very busy next month, probably the only month of the year that it is busy.:D

RDM_83 again

Ballymena, secterain sh^thole with the added attraction of being the location where the drug dealers ran out of Belfast ended up so used to have a serious heroin problem.
Also Antrim town.

Nidgeweasel

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

there's a shopping centre in Laois that can send you into depression

Shuttle bus is it?

fleet_admiral

Arklow and Dolphins Barn, South Dublin. Both absolute hell holes.

FixdePitchmark

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Arklow and Dolphins Barn, South Dublin. Both absolute hell holes.

Parts of Arklow are nice.

By the sea always adds something. Is a bit run down but.

Oops69

The BLanchardstown centre and IKEA , hoardes of vacant lost people , I'd prefer to be on the boardwalk in Dublin city centre

Honey Monster

Has Tipperary town been mentioned yet?

If not,

Tipperary town.

iDave

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Ballymena, secterain sh^thole with the added attraction of being the location where the drug dealers ran out of Belfast ended up so used to have a serious heroin problem.
Also Antrim town.

In fairness I'd say a lot of places mentioned here in the Republic are nowhere near as bad as some of the sectarian dumps in the north.

the dark phantom

Honey Monster wrote: »

Has Tipperary town been mentioned yet?

If not,

Tipperary town.

Awful awful place. Lack of by-pass a serious problem..

arybvtcw0eolkf

GTDolanator wrote: »

I would agree but only the people in the northwest region...bloody foreland gweedore that kneck,inbred scum.And my grandfther is from donegal town and ive met some of the nicest people there

To be fair I'd know Ballyshannon & Bundoran best, the locals seem to take an exception to Dublin accents and military haircuts :cool:

Always ready to row, sometimes its just not worth the hassle.. But damn the female accents must be the sexiest in the country.

The Backwards Man

Tyson Mysterious Backhoe wrote: »

To be fair I'd know Ballyshannon & Bundoran best, the locals seem to take an exception to Dublin accents and military haircuts :cool:

Always ready to row, sometimes its just not worth the hassle.. But damn the female accents must be the sexiest in the country.

Bundoran isn't Donegal, it's a suburb of Belfast.

Laura Palmer

Limerick Junction. The sun never shines there.

eisenberg1

Courtown, and Borris-in-Ossory

valoren

Trabolgan Holiday camp in Cork.

So grim you could chew on it.

joe stodge

Baillebouragh Co. Cavan, idiotic tribal population who only interests are "the thesco" and fighting outside the kebab shop on a Saturday night after "the dhisco".

Thargor

Whenever I have to take a Citylink commuter through all the little towns instead of the Express I get a real sinking depressive feeling, Kinnegad, Athlone etc, basically anything not beside the sea, by the time I get to Galway Im often pretty miserable after it.

JupiterKid

I stand over having Tipperary town on my grim list. The place is indeed grim and rough as hell. It's begging to be bypassed.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Ballaghaderreen, whichever county you happen to believe it's in. Absolute dump.

Tuam is a thoroughly unpleasant place.

Joe Doe

RDM_83 again wrote: »

...Also Antrim town.

Yep it's on the offical published craptown list:

Recently Gibraltar made it on the uk's crap10, it must really be bad, as it's not even in the uk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crap_Towns

RollieFingers

Bray is a dump!

daveyeh

North Inner City Dublin has the worst grim looking ****-hole dumps I've ever seen.

Other notable dumps include...

Neilstown
Jobstown
Finglas
Ballymun
Balbriggan
Athlone
Ballyfermot

For Forks Sake

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Parts of Arklow are nice.

By the sea always adds something. Is a bit run down but.

Once a prosperous and busy port, it was subjected to secret nuclear testing by the US military in the early sixties, resulting in the town looking like Coventry after the Blitz.

The radiation had the unforseen side effect of turning the towns inhabitants into a breed of mega-vagrant, with insatiable appetites for their favoured pastimes of drinking, fighting, drug consumption and riding their own cousins.

This is the only plausible explanation for Arklow. Because no-one would actually plan a town like that, would they?

whisky_galore

Mallow - it's got flooded so often that businesses just don't give a crap about making an effort anymore, down towards the Clock House natural light doesn't seem to penetrate the gloom. If the A bomb was dropped there, all two families would be wiped out.

Special shout out for Tralee, Killarney's ugly sister.

Larbre34

In fairness, and especially after the last few years, there are more towns than not that are grim, grey, soulless, semi-derelict, sketchy kips populated by bored drinkers and local yokels in Ireland.

And for the person who suggested by-passing a town because of what a kip it is, the irony is that bypasses killed off many of the towns being suggested.

Oh, and Longford.

there was a thread very similar to this a while ago i think...

anyway my opinion has not changed since then...Mullingar,Athlone,Castlepollard,Delvin

For Forks Sake

I've said this before but....

Tipp town could be levelled in the morning and no-one would notice, or care.

Portarlington looks like something from Communist-era Yugoslavia. It's natural gene pool of feral rednecks has been exacerbated by stupid Dubs who thought they were buying 'cheap houses' during the boom.

Ballyhaunis, techincally in Mayo, though neither they nor Roscommon want to claim ownership of it, looks like someone pressed pause sometime in 1976. Not just on the look of the place, but also on the surfacing of roads, and general mindset of everyone in the place. See also Castlerea.

New Ross cannot be bypassed quickly enough. Any town where the main pastime of its populace is hitting each other over the head with rocks and endeavouring to invent fire is not for me. Also, does anyone have any statistics to back up my theory that New Ross has more redheads than anywhere else in the country?

Balbriggan. No explanation required.