New 2024 worst town/County to live in **Mod Warning in Post #77**

laoismanj

Mountrath County laois, like it was bad 20 years ago and its been left to rot and decay, clearly no local pride, also full of knackers.

Athy-See above

Tipp Town-Please put a dome on it, even the bulldogs have cans of cider

Dublin city-Has to be the highest and mighty demonstratable dive in Europe.

Mountrath though needs a special scheme like state sponsored like they did with the flats in ballymun and total regeneration needs to take place. I feel for anyone that may have to live there against their will

frankBurke

Waterford City is the biggest dump in the country. They declared themselves a sanctuary for asylum seekers with no accommodation available. The asylum seekers are taking legal action. Full of welfare blackspots, an empty airport, a derelict-hotel eyesore, an area called Viking Triangle full of non-Europeans. Nothing happened in that town since the '80s. Visit Golden Discs and ask them for a CD of a Waterford band.

gym_imposter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058342493/new-2024-worst-town-county-to-live-in

Mountmellick isn't much better

Few other dives

Athy

Granard

Boyle

Borrisokane

Castleisland

Monasterevin

MickMacca7757

Athy

Portlaoise

Edenderry

North Inner City Dublin

Mister Vain

Who will be the first poster to defend Dublin?

taxAHcruel

Grew up around Clontarf and my own personal experience of Dublin was never bad. But while I have nothing against it I do not particularly want to defend it either or to ever move back there. We have been in Maynooth general area for some time now and really never regretted our decision to come here. For us at least we seem to have all the advantages of being in Dublin without any of the downsides of actually being in Dublin. Hell despite not being in Dublin we are still on Dublin Bus routes. So it's best of both worlds and no need to attack or defend it for us personally.

We find it a nice place generally. I can get into the City when I want quite quickly. I can also get out to run and enjoy nature in places like Donadea forest quite quickly.

Never had much trouble here to be honest. With the minor exceptions of an incredibly religious neighbour who we have learned to just be amused by rather than annoyed by. And my girlfriend was on one occasion subject to an attempted sexual assualt/attack/rape in the side streets of Maynooth late at night some years ago.

Other than those we have had essentially no issues, regrets, complaints or gripes. Very happy with our place and our choice and certainly enjoy our proximity to Dublin while enjoying not having to be in Dublin :)

gym_imposter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121920830#Comment_121920830

Portlaoise is a good town

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121920888#Comment_121920888

We don't need to defend Dublin, everyone with common sense knows 90% of Dublin is nice and safe.

DellyBelly

Athy....as others have said above a real hole of a town.

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924322#Comment_121924322

Exactly.

There is no better place to live in the country than South Dublin, particularly the coastal areas.

Those coastal villages aren't the most expensive areas in the country for no reason.

To associate south coastal Dublin with the North Inner City is ridiculous and is an opinion voiced by people that dont know Dublin.

lmk123

Buttavent and Newmarket Co. Cork, they stand alone, I’d rather be In Beirut

dxhound2005

The Buttevantonians don't like to see that spelling.

pgj2015

Longford is hell.

Patrick Mahomes

Athy is bad but I’d say it’s improved a bit over the last few years compared to how bad it used to be.

Regards,

P.

65535

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924344#Comment_121924344

I've been in all three and see nothing wrong with them.

I think people put down towns and places that they've been to without knowing the full story about the place.

I travel a lot around Ireland and no town strikes me as bad but then I guess you have to live in the place - and maybe that is what it is - we all have a bias against the town or place we grew up in.

Another view is 'Longford is hell' - well it was back in the '60's and '70's - that's for sure because there was little there but now it is an advancing place surely.

A lot of the towns mentioned also (coincidentally or not) have traffic problems with no bypass - I wonder if that is a cause ?

Viscount Aggro

Mountmellick is a place dear to my heart.. because I hate it.

Its known locally as, Mountmisery.

Going there to visit elderly grandparents back in the day. All I remember is dampness, smell of turf smoke, and drunks stumbling from pub to pub.

There was a robbery of the Shaws department store in the town. They robbed everything, even the lino.. not enough? Someone took a dump inside the cash register.

Mister Vain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924322#Comment_121924322

Clearly there is a need when so many bad things are said about it on here.

gym_imposter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924342#Comment_121924342

I'd put coastal Wicklow towns like Greystones in the same tier one category as south east Dublin, almost equally expensive of course

gym_imposter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924608#Comment_121924608

Longford is today in the grip of gangs of travellers

Rathkeale or Carrick-on-Suir

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924947#Comment_121924947

Agreed. But Greystones is basically Dublin Bay. On the DART etc.

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924794#Comment_121924794

Which are generally referring to the north inner city, which is a tiny part of the city and nobody goes there unless they have to.

It may as well be in Northern Ireland as far as most southsiders are concerned.

Its of no interest or impact.

SharkMX

I could name a few dumps but by a million miles Longford and Edgeworthstown stand out as the worst places ive ever had to spend time in.

I used love in Edgeworthstown for about 9 months. Everywhere is heaven now compared to it.

Esel

You think you used love, but really love used you.

blingrhino

Drogheda without a doubt.

Man Vs ManUre

Longford town vs Rathkeale in a slash hook and machete funeral fight to the death. The resulting funeral and rematch will ensure this entertainment goes on and on in both Kip venues. Extra fights over the Xmas period when extended families come home from UK and America.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924344#Comment_121924344

Newmarket people are surprisingly warm. Nothing that much wrong with Buttevant, with a bit of TLC it could be quite pretty.

Charleville and Mallow are unattractive dumps. The latter is full of derelict, boarded up buildings.

Tralee is most definitely is going to the dogs. A hole.

Lewis_Benson

Nenagh

Roscrea

Oughterard

County Mayo

whisky_galore

Large tracts of Mayo, away from the coast are boring, bland spots.

Likewise most if not all inland west cork towns are kips you have to drive through to get to the nice places.

gipi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121925771#Comment_121925771

Yeah, my thoughts exactly, sadly. Lived here almost 20 years, and I saw the boom and the bust and the effect it's had on the town.

Half-empty shopping centres, dirty and derelict main street, poor parking which shoves people to the retail parks outside of town, a one-way system that doesn't really work, and nothing but talk about how "city status" (give me a break) will fix everything. The town has gone downhill rapidly since the borough council was abolished in 2014 - all moneys now controlled by Dundalk, who don't give a fiddler's about Drogheda (and that's on the record!).

All I see now are houses, houses, houses, grocery shops and the bus or train to Dublin - a typical dormitory town. Schools are oversubscribed and only going to get worse, hospital is overcrowded, GPs can't be got.

I'll not even mention the hotel situation.....🤐

Bobson Dugnutt

Ballinasloe is one grim town. The abandoned psychiatric hospital, long streets of boarded up shops and houses, and just the overall unloved air of the place.

Esel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121925907#Comment_121925907

Would you love there though?

Baba Yaga

longford without a doubt its full of culture and ethnic-icity...

brokenbad

From my own experience of travelling through these grim, depressing wastelands - here's my tuppence worth:

1. Edenderry, Clara, Banagher, Ferbane, Daingean (Offaly)
2. Drogheda (Louth)
3. Castlerea, Boyle, Dysart, Frenchpark & Tulsk (Roscommon)
4. Ballinasloe, Tuam, Athenry (Galway)
5. Portarlington, Emo, Mountrath, Mountmellick (Laois)
6. Kilrush, Ennis, Kilkee, Lahinch (Clare)
7. Roscrea, Borrisokane, Tipperary Town (Tipperary)
8. Mullingar, Moate, Ballymore,(Westmeath)
9. Belmullet, Foxford (Mayo)
10. Newbridge (Kildare)
11. Ballyragget (Kilkenny)
12. Fermoy, Churchtown, Midleton (Cork)
13. Tralee (Kerry)
14. Ballymahon, Longford Town, Edgeworthstown, Granard (Longford)
15. Carrick-On-Shannon (Leitrim)

Bobson Dugnutt

Carrick-on-Shannon is a lovely town. Wouldn’t make the top 200 grimmest places in Ireland.

BagofWeed

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924344#Comment_121924344

I shudder when I see the signage for Newtownshandrum on the N20.

BagofWeed

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121925795#Comment_121925795

Can never understand the dislike of Mallow, I don't know much about the happenings in the town but it has a nice riverside park and walkway. The centre isn't bad and it has a rail station so it has more than most Irish towns

lmk123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121925795#Comment_121925795

Ah the people are probably sound, it’s just the town itself is one of the most depressing looking spots you’d ever see, agree 100% on Tralee

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121926114#Comment_121926114

The centre is a sh1thole of dereliction.

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121926273#Comment_121926273

I thought Tralee was supposed to be the highlight of Kerry?

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121926391#Comment_121926391

Killarney is a much nicer town

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121926441#Comment_121926441

Thanks. Sounds like Tralee is on a downward spiral though. I havent been there for years so really cant comment.

EIREHotspur

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121925996#Comment_121925996

So travelling through a town what is the criteria from this extensive expertise you have on culture and architecture that was missing for you?

You were perhaps expecting to see glorious landscaped gardens adorning the entry to these towns or tropical palm trees with fountains or waterfalls in the main street as you toured around extensively on your whistlestop trip through to your final destination?

You are typing this from the side of your pool in your home in Monte Carlo are you??

dxhound2005

Guest: "When I pay for a view, I expect something more interesting than that."

Basil: "But that is Torquay, madam."

Guest: "Well it's not good enough."

Basil: "Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain..."

Guest: "Don't be silly. I expect to be able to see the sea."

Basil: "You can see the sea! It's over there between the land and the sky!"

Guest: "I'd need a telescope to see that."

Basil: "Well might I suggest you move to a hotel closer to the sea. Or preferably in it."

chosen1

There are some great towns and villages mentioned in your list so I'm going to assume that the ones I'm not familiar with are pretty OK.

Out of curiosity, where would you consider to be a nice town?

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121926391#Comment_121926391

God no. Crime ridden hole.

Killarney or better again Kenmare far nicer towns.

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121927366#Comment_121927366

Thanks. I heard Kenmare is struggling now, with the hotels not being available?

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121926932#Comment_121926932

Would be good to see a nice town thread I suppose :)

dxhound2005

Nice Town threads do not suit the temperament of most AH denizens.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057809660/irelands-nicest-towns?utm_source=community-search&utm_medium=organic-search&utm_term=nicest+towns+in+ireland

My name is URL

As a neutral Louth resident, I will say Ardee

hey, etc

BlueSkyDreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121927452#Comment_121927452

Thanks.

I would agree with the southside Dublin villages.

Best part of the country by a mile.