the worst town in ireland?

klong · 29-03-2002 3:20pm #1

well, which is it?

have to say methinks drogheda is a hole- and i live there

azezil · 29-03-2002 3:21pm

I've had many many many unpleasent experiences in Athlone

klong · 29-03-2002 3:28pm

my dislike of my native town has probably got to do with the fact that nobody can speak english- imagine a higher pitched dub accent; its full of litter; theres quite a few scumbags. Theres too much traffic- but wer'e getting a bypass.

apart from that its a great place.

D-Generate · 29-03-2002 6:47pm

Cork, no doubt at all

dahamsta · 29-03-2002 6:51pm

Cork is a city, not a town. And it's the berries!

adam

Meh · 29-03-2002 7:02pm

Bray sucks -- all the disadvantages of Dublin, with none of the redeeming features.

phobos · 29-03-2002 7:12pm

I don't think this thread is a good idea, because all it takes is someone to say that they don't like a certain place. Then all of a sudden war breaks out between them and all the other people that live in that place. Ja know what I mean.

Probably safer swithing it to places you do like.

On that note, I love where I'm from. I can completely understand why house prices are through the roof, and try to spend as much time here as I can. I live in Galway City by the way. More specifically Salthill/Knocknacarra.

During the summer there is a buzz in Galway, with tourists all over the place (spending money, boosting the local economy). Salthill used to be real commercial with delapidated touristy buildings (the word is KIP) dating about 50 years. But now it's getting it's act together. Take for example nice pubs like Davey's Locker, and Kitty O'Shea's on the promenade. But having said that I generally don't socialise in Salthill. That's more of a day time place.

Galway has everything I need. Computer stores, book shops, and a (fairly) regular boards drinkies session. Galway is big enough to have everything you want, yet small enough not to get you stressed. It's also big enough for you to go out, get hammered, shift/shag whatever, and know that you will probably not bump in to that person again (or for at least a long time).

I'm in college in Castlebar (for the past few years), and eventhough I like the town (it's grown on me), the same cannot be said. In that town if you do anything wrong/right, everybody knows in a matter of mins. I know I could not live in a small community. I need a sense of privacy in my life (to an extent). I also highly recommend not going out with anybody in that town, because it's more hassle than it's worth (just broke up with my gf last Saturday evening, of nearly a year). But I'm happy where I'm back in Galway, and I can assure you that there are plenty more women in places like 110 St. on a Sat night, than I could handle.

;-phobos-)

mike65 · 29-03-2002 7:19pm

I'm always glad not to be in Thurles.

or indeed any midlands town, I think its becasue they have no character.

Mike.

azezil · 29-03-2002 7:31pm

ah thurles is grand, ok the road system around the square is totally fuped up and its pritty quite but its grand to go out in... don't have to worry about being mugged or what have you

mike65 · 29-03-2002 7:38pm

The Square is a standing joke! I was there today and being Good Friday was the quietest I've seen it in years. You realy do take you life in your hands in that place though and the way the locals park- they just abandon thier cars and walk off!!.

Mike

azezil · 29-03-2002 7:40pm

yeah it can get pritty bad between the AIB and Hayes's lol

SheroN · 29-03-2002 9:25pm

Carrick on Suir.

sceptre · 29-03-2002 9:52pm

Mallow. Can't get much worse.

Typedef · 30-03-2002 8:47pm

The best town or urban settlement in Ireland and probably the world is Dublin, which is the worst? Probably those detractors in the 'real capital'
muhahaha.

Terran · 30-03-2002 10:11pm

Roscrea. I had mto spend a whole day there and there is NOTHING to do. I think I died of boredom... Oh wait, I didn't, sorry.

jd · 30-03-2002 10:27pm

Arklow use to be an awful dump-with the new bypass it may have improved..
betcha mayhem# says ferns!!

Kairo · 30-03-2002 11:41pm

Tralee and its 56k internet café

Only €6 an hour!

wow.

conZ · 31-03-2002 12:02am

have to say ennis...
although i live their and its a pretty cool town and all, its full off knackers...when i say full, i mean every second person asks u 4 moeny and ****. ask scrappy, he'll tall ya!

king of fifa · 31-03-2002 3:01am

you lot have never been to new ross then.

ykt0di9url7bc3 · 31-03-2002 12:15pm

Athy, Carrick, Clonmel....
a lot of bad memories

Culchie Boy · 31-03-2002 7:46pm

I agree with kyro, Tralee makes me depressed. There is hardly know place to park or if you do get a space you will Have to pay lots of Euros.......

Culchie Boy.

mike65 · 31-03-2002 11:15pm

True, if you're in a hurry Tralee is proberly the last town in the country was want to be in and now the tourist season is officially started its only going to get worse (if they turned off the lights by
the SuperValu front entrance everyhting would be grand).

Mike.

Jaden · 03-04-2002 12:25pm

TUAM

I need say no more. If you've been there, you'll know, if not, avoid at all costs.

suppafly · 03-04-2002 12:44pm

yeah i'd have to say that clonmel is a bit of a hole. Really small, shag all to do. Yeah its a pretty boring town!

Scruff · 03-04-2002 12:46pm

Originally posted by conZ
have to say ennis...
although i live their and its a pretty cool town and all, its full off knackers...when i say full, i mean every second person asks u 4 moeny and ****. ask scrappy, he'll tall ya!

Ye should try not sitting on "de height" for so long

Have to agree with ye though, theres nearly as many knackers there as in tralee. its all those bloody immigrants, from Limerick!

DMC · 03-04-2002 5:20pm

Dunshaughlin

It, and Navan, should be bombed into oblivion. It takes me 2 to 2.5 hours every Friday to get home, whereas, if I had the power and the right chemicals, I would be true to that magical phrase "Only an hour from Dublin!"

And who lives in these dormant hellholes?

Everyone who gets out of Dublin every weekend has their own town they want to drop explosives onto.

Kinnegad, Enfield, most of north Kildare.... bomb it all!

The Gopher · 03-04-2002 5:41pm

Athlone is a real ****hole IMO.We went on a schoo tour there once and we were bored the whole day.

TacT · 03-04-2002 6:17pm

Nenagh of Co. Tip/cork I forget but there's nowt but a pub every two doors and they have 2/3 customer's and that's it, all the youth hang around, shag each other, get pregnant/start fights, oh the charm of it all, isn't it so lovely and cute!

flyz · 03-04-2002 6:32pm

Originally posted by D-Generate
Cork, no doubt at all

Why Cork? it's a damn sight better than other towns/cities in Ireland anyway

klong · 04-04-2002 10:39am

READ the topic: the worst TOWN in Ireland.
The following are excluded:
Cork
Dublin
Waterford
Limerick
Galway
Belfast
Armagh
Derry
Please continue

Ruaidhri · 05-04-2002 3:39pm

without a doubt it's Loughrea.got one of the highest pubs to ppl ratio in ireland and it is dead.really boring

tHE vAGGABOND · 05-04-2002 5:21pm

Yea I have a mate who is from Tuam..

What a total ****hole! A bunch of us were in the nightclub once, jasus it was like being at a casting session for Deliverance :ninja:

GreenHell · 06-04-2002 10:11am

Originally posted by Ruaidhri
without a doubt it's Loughrea.got one of the highest pubs to ppl ratio in ireland and it is dead.really boring

I know someone from there, I can't say anymore, but she would agree.

Clonakilty! I can't say anymore either because dragging up memories of it would cause to me to go insane, and I'll just verying near the edge of insanity.

sceptre · 06-04-2002 10:54am

Genuinely interested in what's wrong with Clonakilty (seeing as it's my desired living space when I go house-buying) - just based on one or two visits.

ButcherOfNog · 07-04-2002 11:53pm

Roscrea, stayed in it a number of times while crossing the country, never found a single thing about it i liked

GreenHell · 08-04-2002 1:20am

Originally posted by sceptre
Genuinely interested in what's wrong with Clonakilty (seeing as it's my desired living space when I go house-buying) - just based on one or two visits.

Well if your going house buying in Clon, please don't let my post have an effect, I just don't like the place, sick to death of the small place week in week out, and then the same thing when I come back from college. Its a nice town, safe town, quiet town. Theres nothing to do there entertainment wise other than play GAA or rugby or drink. Only thing about the place that interests me is my locals other than that living in limerick is a nice change.

flyz · 08-04-2002 9:01am

Originally posted by GreenHell

Well if your going house buying in Clon, please don't let my post have an effect, I just don't like the place, sick to death of the small place week in week out, and then the same thing when I come back from college. Its a nice town, safe town, quiet town. Theres nothing to do there entertainment wise other than play GAA or rugby or drink. Only thing about the place that interests me is my locals other than that living in limerick is a nice change.

Good Pubs, Good people, beautiful part of the country but ****ty nightclubs

smiles · 08-04-2002 7:13pm

Drogheda ranks highly up there.

Thankfully I do live a little bit (5 mile) outside of it.

Funny, i saw the thread and wondered how soon would someone post up drogheda... and then it was in the first post!

<< Fio >>

Kalina · 09-04-2002 12:13pm

Kildare has got to be the worst town in Ireland.
I was stuck in it for over 2 hours once waiting for a train. For starters the train station is the worst one in the country, at least the worst one that I've ever been in. For a major junction station you'd think they'd at least have a shop. It's always freezing and if you take my advice don't sit on the seats in the waiting room!!!
The town itself smells awful. Is there a sewrage plant right in the centre of the town or maybe just a landfill. There is nowhere to do any shopping either. Somebody with a pile of cash should go in, buy up a load of land and build a kick-ass shopping centre and a new train station... and maybe move the sewrage plant!!

Stephen · 09-04-2002 12:29pm

I must agree with Ruaidhrí and the others about Loughrea. My parents are both from Loughrea, so I end up visiting the desolate hell hole more than I would like.

Its got nothing besides pubs (quite possibly more pubs than people), a bank or two and a few houses. And plenty of knackers.

GreenHell · 09-04-2002 5:04pm

Clonakilty, sick of the place, you'll never change my mind.

neuro-praxis · 12-04-2002 2:42pm

Dromore West.

I bet you haven't even heard of it. Avoid.

mayhem# · 14-04-2002 5:57pm

Originally posted by jd
Arklow use to be an awful dump-with the new bypass it may have improved..
betcha mayhem# says ferns!!

Oi, do I know you?!

Illkillya · 14-04-2002 6:24pm

definitely Dunmanway

jd · 14-04-2002 8:46pm

Originally posted by mayhem#

Oi, do I know you?!

SCI and ie.general!

mayhem# · 14-04-2002 9:08pm

My god!
My Ferns phobia is cross-pollinating across the Internet!
What are you know as on ie.general & SCI?

jd · 15-04-2002 2:22pm

Originally posted by mayhem#
My god!
My Ferns phobia is cross-pollinating across the Internet!
What are you know as on ie.general & SCI?

What bad experience did you have in Ferns??

ToxicPaddy · 16-04-2002 1:44pm

Lismore....

Lovely picturesque town, fabulous castle and gardens, nice river running through it and lovely green rolling hills around it... just that its full of knackers and scumbags from the hinterland around it..

if they got rid of them, it would be a town to dream about..

Beef · 16-04-2002 1:48pm

No doubt! Any of ye been to fethard? They have a mart on Saturdays!

Enygma · 16-04-2002 2:12pm

I'm really surprised no one has said Tramore. I mean, come on, it's like a delapidated(sp?) micro version of a run down Las vegas casino.
Nothing but holiday homes and caravans as far as the eye can see.
And the water's full of ****e.

Westport comes a close second, nothing really wrong with the place, I just didn't really like it. Oh it's feckin freezing there.

Clon's nice I think, you've got two of the best beaches in the country practically on your doorstep. Not too far from the city but just far enough.

mike65 · 16-04-2002 6:02pm

Hey!

I used to live in Tramore (in the 70s') and it was just fine back then!
Now it 100% commuterville though, until summer then its
99.94% Dublin scum!

Mike.

the worst town in ireland?

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