The Worst Of Irish Towns

js35

Rathangan co Kildare and portarlington co laois both towns are full of inbreds!!

razorblunt

Frog Song wrote: »

Buttevant, Edenderry, Drogheda, Youghal, Tralee, Dundalk.

Agreed, its not the worst of towns and there's some nice restaurants and pubs down there but man, the young fellas with no ambition to leave the town have a serious chip on their shoulder.

DragonKhan

Moate

cactuspaw wrote: »

Edgwartstown also, like time forgot it but not in a quant way

To be fair it's basically one long street with a couple of housing estates either side. It has been bypassed by the main road and is only the size it is due to the train station being there. Not a place a I would personally want to live but not that bad really

super_furry

Athy

Cong in Mayo. Actually a nice enough spot but how they hell do they have no bank machines?

padd b1975

Mullingar

Loughrea in Galway, everything that's bad about small town Ireland wrapped up in a handful of crumbling streets.

In fact, you could say the same about any of those "hurling towns" in the south of the county.

Even the pikeys seem to give that area a wide berth, although you still see the odd new age traveller mooching around.

Reputable Rog

New Ross

lost_boy wrote: »

clare is a poor county and by far the least wealthy in munster , take away the nearby tourist attractions and it has nothing , the lack of prosperity might explain the limited shopping experience

Not true, quite a wealthy county with a lot of industry and fairly good farming land in the South East down towards The Shannon.
The limited shopping presence is due its close proximity to both Limerick and Galway, most areas of the county are within a short drive of either Limerick or Galway.
Ennis is largely a dormitory town albeit a very pleasant one and is not that different to towns like Naas in terms of its retail offering.

messrs

Hans Bricks wrote: »

Actually theres a town in Roscommon which promotes suicide to outsiders. It has a wine colored industrial factory with 'Paul & Vincent' as the name and this dreary estate and what looks like a watchtower outside it just on the outskirts.

It looks like a scene from post soviet Siberia. Except in Roscommon.

Paul & Vincent is a factory in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford

Santa Cruz

Red Kev wrote: »

Edgeworthstown, Co Longford

Elphin, Co Roscommon

Kinnegad also has feck all going for it since the motorway went by it.

The town of Naas is an awful place
Portlaoise is just as bad
Longford town would get you down
But Fxxxxx me, Kinnegad
(By unknown local poet)

Aongus Von Bismarck

I have a deep dislike for the town of Athenry and its citizens. I may be biased as I was once viciously assaulted by a talentless thug while playing against Athenry in a minor hurling match (we won and Aongus got a couple of crucial points from play that helped that to happen ).

It's a town of toothless simpletons huddled in the doorways of decrepit pubs pulling on rollies and spitting on the ground. A town of Wrangler jeans, slip-on shoes and Harley Davidson belt buckles. Both male and female.

A town where people go to the canteen in the mart for a slap-up meal. The finest well done sirloin steak in Galway by all accounts.

A town where some bull-thick ignorant farmer will think nothing about pulling up in the middle of the street in his tractor, getting down out of it, and heading into a shop for a box of smokes, a bottle of Lucozade and a 15 minute chat about the state of Galway hurling. The problem here is that the streets in Athenry are about the width of a Massey Ferguson.

A wretched hell hole. I used to have to get the train to there the odd time when I was a student. The only place where I genuinely saw the ticket seller in the station fast asleep as people queued for tickets.

Ush1

Kells, Co. Killkenny. My grandmother lived there and I was forced to visit as a kid, always had a grey, impending doom quality.

Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary. Similar qualities to Kells.

Newtwopothouse, Co. Cork. See above.

Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork. Despite being on the coast it still manages to be sh*tty. Ah, it's not the worst I suppose.

Tarzana2

cournioni wrote: »

Also included in this area, parts of Meath, Kildare, Wicklow, Louth... Hardly the one city. By that reckoning Cavan town stretches from Longford and Meath in the South to Monaghan and Fermanagh in the north.

Indeed.

But the Dublin area itself is 1.2 million.

Though your Cavan example is a bit silly, I'm sure you realise.

Tarzana2

flas wrote: »

Amsterdam city region has a population of 813,000 with its greater urban region hitting 2,332,000..
Dublin city region has a population of 527,000 with its greater urban area hitting is 1,800,000..
Bit of a difference

Very little, actually. 500,000 or so people? Cork city basically.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I have a deep dislike for the town of Athenry and its citizens.

I stopped for a burger in Athenry on the way down from Dublin to Galway a few months ago when what looked like a ginger bearded vagrant in a grotty navy gilet started roaring at me from the door of a pub.

I tried to understand what he was saying but he was too drunk so I simply flicked him the "vickies" and told him to eff off. Hopefully he's sorted his life out since.

Sunny Dayz

Kilbeggan. I used to get the bus to Dublin for college back in the boom times and the Celtic Tiger on set down its paw long enough for one apartment block. The town looks like it stopped in time about 50 years ago. There is nothing and none in the place! It was the one town (pre motorway times) along the Athlone to Dublin route I used to hate the sight of.


Also Mullingar. Worked there for 4 years and think I have maybe set foot in it 4 times since I left it 5 years ago, hated the place. Only good thing was the pub Danny Byrnes.


Agreed about Nenagh, a decent sized town but for some reason there doesn't seem to be anything actually in it. We would often visit Limerick and would stop in Nenagh for food with the young sprog, stopped doing that cos we couldn't actually find anywhere to eat bar O'Briens sandwiches. Thank god there's a motorway from Nenagh to Limerick now.

bodhrandude

Shannon

padd b1975 wrote: »

Loughrea in Galway, everything that's bad about small town Ireland wrapped up in a handful of crumbling streets.

In fact, you could say the same about any of those "hurling towns" in the south of the county.

Even the pikeys seem to give that area a wide berth, although you still see the odd new age traveller mooching around.

Was at the Connaught Fleadh there a few years ago, one bloody pub had a session, for the size of the town that is ridiculous.

super_furry

Athy

Oh god Youghal, what a horrible little kip of a place. It's like a hill-billy stereotype and the only place I've ever seen someone get physically attacked because 'you're not from here'.

Rakish Paddy

Ballina

bodhrandude wrote: »

Was at the Connaught Fleadh there a few years ago, one bloody pub had a session, for the size of the town that is ridiculous.

That's surprising - I always thought Loughrea and Gort and their surrounding areas had loads of trad music but I may be mistaken.

RomanKnows

Spideal, or An Spidéal as the locals call it isn't up to much. I suppose it might be seen as picturesque if your idea of picturesque is half-starved donkeys, rocks, abandoned cars in the gardens of unkempt houses and more rocks.

I was out there canvassing for FG during the last election. I have a reasonable standard of conversational Irish. You might as well be talking to one of the donkeys as trying to reason with the locals on the doorstep. FF zealots to the core. O'Cuiv got us this and Bertie wasn't bad sort of stuff.

One lad started slagging me in front of his wife in slang Irish about me being some arsehole from English Galway out looking for 'léine gorm' votes, little realising I understood the majority of what he was saying. He then proclaimed that he didn't understand English and would 'rather shît in a barrel than vote for FG'. He understood English perfectly well when my colleague muttered to me about hoping Enda cut the majority of grants to this shower of workshy self-entitled bastards.

Connies are as odd as the day is long.

harry Bailey esq

Mullingar

the dark phantom wrote: »

Bandon.
Bandon actually gives me shivers at the thoughts of living there.

I forgot about bandon.Complete kip.I've been through countless times and I'm convinced the place has a rain cloud permanently fixed above it.The sun could be splitting the trees in dunmanway and cork city,but once you approach bandon from either direction it starts pissin rain.
Dunmanway is another kip,possibly even worse than bandon,but at least it gets a bit of sunshine

flas

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Very little, actually. 500,000 or so people? Cork city basically.

Or the population of Dublin city again, which stands at just over 500,000...

Crooked Jack

Portrush and coleraine. Bland, empty, soulless, Godless holes.

Flippyfloppy

Ennis

I really dislike drogheda

Laois_Man

Granard

Given my username, I'm stayin out of this






















but if I wasn't, I'd have to mention.....

Castledermot
Baltinglass
Tullow
Athy
Arklow
Kilcock
Kells (Meath)

padd b1975

Mullingar

bodhrandude wrote: »

Was at the Connaught Fleadh there a few years ago, one bloody pub had a session, for the size of the town that is ridiculous.

I would well believe that.

I'm fairly certain too that the pub was owned by the local FF politician.

It's sad to see such examples of unashamed gombeenery still going on in these modern times, but that's what happens when generation after generation cannot bring themselves to look past a seven mile radius of their own noses.

Of course you'll find the odd chancer who'll head "out foreign" at someone else's expense, this wanderlust seldom lasts and fairly soon they find themselves yearning for a diet of boiled turnips, hairy bacon and Smithwicks.

Tarzana2

flas wrote: »

Or the population of Dublin city again, which stands at just over 500,000...

Most cities will have a small "city proper" population, which we all know isn't really indicative of the actual size of the city.

Dublin isn't an alpha city but it stands up pretty well, population-wise.

jjbrien

Just had to vote for knock the place is the pits. Some of my relations go there every year im sure if it didnt have the shrine the place would be a ghost town im sure.

Longford and Granard id vote for if i was allowed more votes

Did Kilbeggan get a mention surely it would win hands down.

banquo

Portlaoise

Kill. I was there once waiting for a train and asked an old lady was there anything to do while I waited.

Her: Well, there's PaddyPowers, or the Spar.
Me: ...
Her: I know, we're like New York!

jjbrien

banquo wrote: »

Kill. I was there once waiting for a train and asked an old lady was there anything to do while I waited.

Her: Well, there's PaddyPowers, or the Spar.
Me: ...
Her: I know, we're like New York!

Is that Kildare town?

God i remember once waiting there too for a train went for a walk up the town and found nothing to do not even a pub open in it. Now I remember the worst town in Ireland. Longford and Grandard at least have hotels a few shops and pubs to kill time in. Kildare just has nothing going for it.

Mars Bar

Tuam

I've lived in gort and am from Tuam. Gort is ****e apart from coole park.

RomanKnows

Mars Bar wrote: »

I've lived in gort and am from Tuam. Gort is ****e apart from coole park.

Were you Stalin in a previous life?

WesternZulu

Navan

Griever931 wrote: »

Ballinrobe in Mayo is pretty bad. Loads of derelict and run down shops and houses there.

Not as bad as its Co. Galway neighbours Headford and Tuam though!

Hans Bricks

New Ross

I just google mapped Shannon town there and good lord .... how many workers at Shannon airport suffer from substance abuse does anyone know ?

harry Bailey esq

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Dunmanway is another kip,possibly even worse than bandon,but at least it gets a bit of sunshine

Mundaneway.

The worst thing about Bandon and Mundaneway is that, being in West Cork, you expect them to be great. They ain't.

padd b1975

padd b1975 wrote: »

I would well believe that.

I'm fairly certain too that the pub was owned by the local FF politician.

It's sad to see such examples of unashamed gombeenery still going on in these modern times, but that's what happens when generation after generation cannot bring themselves to look past a seven mile radius of their own noses.

Of course you'll find the odd chancer who'll head "out foreign" at someone else's expense, this wanderlust seldom lasts and fairly soon they find themselves yearning for a diet of boiled turnips, hairy bacon and Smithwicks.

Person gives out about FF influence in Galway town.

You wouldn't be a FG supporter from a Mayo town?

John_Rambo

TommyOM wrote: »

Its a town pal you cannot call that jokeshop a 'city'

Dublin's a city pal, a town and a city. A proper big boys city with a financial district, ethnic districts, big companies, home grown and international businesses. I see you're taking cheap pot shots at Cork too. Well, let me tell you that Cork city and Dublin city have their sleeves rolled up, they're up early every morning and working hard sustaining and subsidising the rest of the country.

These provincial hate threads are the jokeshops of boards.ie where people say what they wouldn't dare say to peoples faces. And you're one of the cheap shot jokers.

stehyl15

Ennis

Howth ok it has some nice walks and scenery but other then that there isint very much apart from a horrible smell of chips. The South Coast towns such as Dun Laoghaire, Blackrock, Dalkey and Bray are far better. In Howth there seems to be a good selection of fish restaurants but a severe lack of decent places for a decent coffee and snack feel sorry for the tourists that flock there.

R0ot

No Dublin on the list?

stehyl15

Ennis

R0ot wrote: »

No Dublin on the list?

Ah come off its Dublin is lovely decent shops, restaurants and nightlife its all pretty good apart from temple bar of course

John_Rambo

stehyl15 wrote: »

severe lack of decent places for a decent coffee and snack feel sorry for the tourists that flock there.

Octapussy for snacks, the market is snack central and there's good coffee there too, a lot of the fish shops sell super fresh fish salads, Wrights, House and Beshoffs do great coffees. Most of the restaurants do good take away coffee.

Were you actually there?

lost_boy

RomanKnows wrote: »

Spideal, or An Spidéal as the locals call it isn't up to much. I suppose it might be seen as picturesque if your idea of picturesque is half-starved donkeys, rocks, abandoned cars in the gardens of unkempt houses and more rocks.

I was out there canvassing for FG during the last election. I have a reasonable standard of conversational Irish. You might as well be talking to one of the donkeys as trying to reason with the locals on the doorstep. FF zealots to the core. O'Cuiv got us this and Bertie wasn't bad sort of stuff.

One lad started slagging me in front of his wife in slang Irish about me being some arsehole from English Galway out looking for 'léine gorm' votes, little realising I understood the majority of what he was saying. He then proclaimed that he didn't understand English and would 'rather shît in a barrel than vote for FG'. He understood English perfectly well when my colleague muttered to me about hoping Enda cut the majority of grants to this shower of workshy self-entitled bastards.

Connies are as odd as the day is long.

galway folk are pretty clannish but connemara folk are in a different league

stehyl15

Ennis

John_Rambo wrote: »

Octapussy for snacks, the market is snack central and there's good coffee there too, a lot of the fish shops sell super fresh fish salads, Wrights, House and Beshoffs do great coffees. Most of the restaurants do good take away coffee.

Were you actually there?

Yea but i meant places where you actually sit down. The main street is a digrace loads of closed down shops and abandoned buildings. What I kinda meant was that theres only really fish places.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

New Ross

Shannon has to be the worst. absolutely depressing mass of concrete and filled with dodgy characters. i'm biased but i think Ennis is actually a nice little town aesthetically with its old churches and georgian buildings down Bindon street looking out on the river. unfortunately it's got its fair share of dodgy characters as well.

i've never left Clare so no opinions on anywhere else

somefeen

Tuam

Poll needs a Kilrush option like I need water to live.

JCX BXC

Longford

somefeen wrote: »

Poll needs a Kilrush option like I need water to live.

I reluctantly agree.
The town is lovely and colourful, but it ends there. For a town with less than 3000 people there's more drugs sold at the local tesco than groceries.

Shemale

Granard

Athy, it's like they got every spare bit of grey from every other town in the world and made Athy out of it, the brightest thing about the place is Shaws and that is very dreary. No atmosphere at all around the place either.

We should have a three strike system in Ireland, first two strikes you go to Mountjoy, third strike off to Athy. There would be no crime!!

Rational Male

Mullingar

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Shannon, Co Clare. Where concrete goes to die.

The bleakest sump-pit of human life in all of Ireland.

I worked there for 6 years..strange place and soulless..the accent is very odd too.

Bobby Baccala

Ennis

stehyl15 wrote: »

Howth ok it has some nice walks and scenery but other then that there isint very much apart from a horrible smell of chips. The South Coast towns such as Dun Laoghaire, Blackrock, Dalkey and Bray are far better. In Howth there seems to be a good selection of fish restaurants but a severe lack of decent places for a decent coffee and snack feel sorry for the tourists that flock there.

Howth people are oddballs but it's a nice place in the summer

Dalkey, bray and dun laoghaire are a load of bollocks to be fair. Dun laoghaire in particular, nothing but a harbour and burger king

madmaggie

Shemale wrote: »

Athy, it's like they got every spare bit of grey from every other town in the world and made Athy out of it, the brightest thing about the place is Shaws and that is very dreary. No atmosphere at all around the place either.

We should have a three strike system in Ireland, first two strikes you go to Mountjoy, third strike off to Athy. There would be no crime!!

Even the railway station is grey, grey, and more grey!:p

Shemale

Granard

madmaggie wrote: »

Even the railway station is grey, grey, and more grey!:p

Handy for transporting the three strikers too.

Bobby Baccala

Ennis

I also wanna give lusk an honourable mention, they built a bypass road around it that only shortens your journey by about 1 minute, I think it's only there to save people the bother of having to look at the boring kip. Everybody that lives there seems to hate eachother too :pac: