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The worst place in Ireland......

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    Illkillya wrote:
    Clearly you've never been to Dunmanway.

    Dunmanway! Couldn't have said it better my self. it's a hellish place trapped in the 1950's also Carna in Conemara


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Yeah Dunmanway's a dump. I find that side of West Cork (Crookstown, Newcestown, Crossbarry, Enniskeane etc) really depressing.
    But I've a good few friends from round there and they tell me Gatsbys was good - scary but good!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,688 ✭✭✭Nailz


    Northern Ireland, I went on a weekend there a few weeks ago. I thought it was an awful shíthole altogether, the nicest places we're still falling apart. And I felt like kicking the shít out of every single person in the towns were they hang out the UJ's, Scottys and Norn Iron flags! And they have St.Patricks grave in a protestant grave-yard! No offence but he was catholic, and that extreamly pissed me off!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    ALL of Northern Ireland - isn't that a bit of generalisation? I've been in Derry, Tyrone, Down and Antrim. I found that - like most places - there were some nice parts, some not-so-nice parts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭the-furbo


    I love Derry...its savage..been a few times and loved it!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Anywhere is better than Furbo ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Slow coach wrote:
    You don't know the first thing about me. So STFU.

    I served 26 years in this (Free) state's defence forces, so I am, by definition, a free stater.

    The "Free State" is 26 counties, of which Derry is not one. So Derry is not in Ireland.

    You still haven't said what France has to do with anything.

    I know enough that you're trying to push buttons with the nationalists on here by making jibes at the importance of Michael Collins' and Éamon De Valera's lives and their accomplishments. And then to say Derry isn't in Ireland, which it 100% is. I don't care where you have served, I despise your kind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    derry is on the island of ireland but it is not part of the republic of ireland so therefore the debate is over. They have a different government up there, a different flag, a different currency etc so it might as well be Manchester we are talking about.

    This sh**e about nationalist/catholic majority doesn't mean anything. There are more poles living in New York than there are in Warsaw; so i suppose based on that type of thinking New York should be part of Poland.

    Listen i like Derry as much as the next person, my aunt (a catholic) lives across from a very rough protestant estate near Altnagelvin. She and her husband are the only catholics in the area and she has seen riots and car burnings on the road near her house. But until Derry or Armagh or Tyrone or Fermanagh or Down or Antrim officially become part of the Republic and are governed by boyz and girlies there in Leinster House, you will just have to accept that Derry and rest are part of the UK


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    Leixlip is a bit of a dive tbh


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    rossie1977 wrote:
    This sh**e about nationalist/catholic majority doesn't mean anything. There are more poles living in New York than there are in Warsaw; so i suppose based on that type of thinking New York should be part of Poland.

    Not when there's more americans living in New York.

    The difference is the people from Derry are Irish, I think they can decide as a majoritive what they want from their city. it's a democracy, something that was taken from us by force.

    Derry is apart of Ireland, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a pawn to the imperialist world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    dlofnep wrote:
    I know enough that you're trying to push buttons with the nationalists on here by making jibes at the importance of Michael Collins' and Éamon De Valera's lives and their accomplishments. And then to say Derry isn't in Ireland, which it 100% is. I don't care where you have served, I despise your kind.


    I haven't made any jibes at Collins or Dev. Read the thread again, without personal hate filling your eyes. People have called Dev a "spineless fcuker" and Collins a "sell-out", but I simply proposed some others.

    You on the other hand, conceitedly said you achieved more before breakfast than Roche or Kelly did in their lives.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭lawhec


    Had this debate a while back on another forum (yes, there are others!) Granard ran out the clear winner.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    it's a democracy, something that was taken from us by force

    Oh no another "FTA 69/Free West Waterford" type.

    we are in a democracy (after a fashion!) and Ireland before 'teh Brits' was never a democracy - it was a series of warring kingdoms lead by tin-pot local dictators.

    Mike.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    biko wrote:
    Anywhere is better than Furbo ;)

    :eek: but Slemons garage does the best Jambons this side of the Shannon!

    I'm gonna nominate Borris In Ossory.

    Or Dublin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭flo8s967qjh0nd


    Nailz wrote:
    And they have St.Patricks grave in a protestant grave-yard! No offence but he was catholic, and that extreamly pissed me off!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:

    I hope you're trying to be funny!!


    And finally, getting to the question at hand:

    Waterford, by a long shot!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    mike65 wrote:
    Oh no another "FTA 69/Free West Waterford" type.

    we are in a democracy (after a fashion!) and Ireland before 'teh Brits' was never a democracy - it was a series of warring kingdoms lead by tin-pot local dictators.

    Mike.

    easy on the usage of the "we" there fella :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭¬_¬


    tough compo but id say waterford because of the mismarketing! IT IS NOT A CITY.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭scruff321


    derry is part of ireland FACT! just because there are 6 counties that dont go under the same govt doesnt mean its not part of ireland and anyone who believe otherwise is a muppet fullstop!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Officially, Waterford is a city.

    It may be miniscule, but it still meets the criteria.
    dlofnep wrote:
    Not when there's more americans living in New York.
    Americans in New York: African, Hispanic, Jewish, Italian, Irish, Scottish, English, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Korean, German and many, many more...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Derry is part of geographical Ireland, but not political Ireland. CAn people just leave it at that, or just f*ck off?

    Anyway, I'm tempted to say Dublin, but everytime I leave it, I miss it. So I have to nominate Naas. Had to go through it when I was going to college in Carlow, and everytime I went through it added an extra 30-60 minutes to my journey, depending on the amount of window lickers that got off.

    Sadly, I have friends from Naas, but I just can't bring myself to like the place.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Dudess I throw my Gauntlet down to you! we're about 50,000 including the bits of south Kilkenny that are in fact Waterford in all but name.

    Mike.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dudess wrote:


    Americans in New York: African, Hispanic, Jewish, Italian, Irish, Scottish, English, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Korean, German and many, many more...

    That is what being American is all about, unless you are a "Native American" then you really ARE American.

    Anyway, anyone on the Island of Ireland is Irish, just some are in the UK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭tallus


    dlofnep wrote:
    Not when there's more americans living in New York.

    The difference is the people from Derry are Irish, I think they can decide as a majoritive what they want from their city. it's a democracy, something that was taken from us by force.

    Derry is apart of Ireland, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a pawn to the imperialist world.
    They might be "Irish" but they are british subjects, something you seem to be unwilling to grasp. The six counties are part of the U.K. as has already been said by SlowCoach but you have ignored that.
    Sounds like you're just flaming to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    cornbb wrote:
    I'm gonna nominate Borris In Ossory.

    +1
    Borris in Misery as it's also known.


    Cloughjordan, North Tipp also.
    Known as "mini Belfast" as a huge percentage of the town is Protestant. Nothing wrong with that of course.
    Big enough town but absolutly nothing to do.
    It's best days were 100 years ago


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    That is what being American is all about, unless you are a "Native American" then you really ARE American.

    not according to the teachings of joseph smith ;) but then again he was a fruitcake :p

    We are all just passing through this life, we don't REALLY own any land on this planet, it will be here long after the human race is but a distant memory in time; the sooner people realise this the better imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    ¬_&#172 wrote:
    tough compo but id say waterford because of the mismarketing! IT IS NOT A CITY.

    What is city, please define.... Any place can call itself a city if they want to. Look at St David in Wales population 1,900

    The german word for town and city is the same STADT


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    Dublin 15.....


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    rossie1977 wrote:
    What is city, please define.... Any place can call itself a city if they want to. Look at St David in Wales population 1,900

    This topic has already been done to death!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Cork. Its totally Cork. Because of the people. And their ridiculous attitude. And the ****in peoples republic tee shirts. They wouldnt spend christmas, and the accent they have on them. Sounds like a small dog having its balls trod on. And jesus the towns around that ****ing city. I ask you. Just horrible ****ty horrible ****hole. Lived there like 7 years. Nightmare. New Ross in Wexford is pretty ****ing bad. And Dublin. I mean Dublin just ****ing sucks. Junkies, morons, Dubs, traffic, a dirty smelly ****hole of a city. Oh and westmeath. Jesus. Those people have about two braincells to put together. And Tipperary. Its just a series of scumbags that decided to put some towns together so it would be easier to beat each other up and get sky digital. And anywhere in Connaught, except Galway, also totally totally sucks. And also Tralee, Kilkenny and Ennis.
    Actually hang on. Maybe I should list the places that I like. That would probably save some time.
    ...
    ...
    Any ideas?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Orange69


    Page 3, over 40 posts and nobody has said Limerick yet.

    I'm not saying it's the worst by any means (in fact it's one of the best) but still, it usually gets picked on

    I would say it wasn't mentioned because its far from the worst... I was visiting Limerick a couple of weeks back and was just blown away.. They have high rise buildings on the river now and i love the the new henry street area.. the place is booming! Although with all the construction it was very dusty everywhere.. They seem to be building a tunnel under the Shannon river also?

    Its crazy saying dublin is the worst place in Ireland too, Some of the suburbs are soul less alright and transport can be a pain but on the whole the city is great!

    The most depressing places in Ireland imo are gort (planning hell) and belfast...


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Cootehill - poultry factory down one end of the main street, cheese factory at the other end. I was only there once about 10 years ago, but I'll never forget how I nearly threw up just getting out of the car and crossing the street the smell was so bad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,981 ✭✭✭Big Ears


    Derry is in Ireland, it is not in the Republic of Ireland but it is in Ireland. There is no political entity known as Ireland. Ireland is the island, not just the 26 counties. Hell not too long ago I heard Ian Paisley admit that he was Irish.

    The worst place in Ireland is Portarlington, depressing place.

    Actually the name of the country we live in is Ireland not the Republic of Ireland .The Republic of Ireland is a name used to describe the country but it's not actually the name of it .

    So as people say Derry is geographically in Ireland(the island) but not in Ireland(the political entity) .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭¬_¬


    Didn't we give it up? wot with da good friday agreement and stuff?
    "The abolition of the Republic's territorial claim to Northern Ireland via the modification Articles 2 and 3 of its constitution."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977



    Reading that didn't help at all. Just random people talking sh**e, offering no true solutions to the age old question :D


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    My name is Michael Cody, im from Dublin, ive just spent a few years in derry it has to be the worst place in ireland because:
    1. The people have the most annoying whinging accent ive ever heard.
    2. The place is looks like its falling down.
    3 There are no decent single women in the place, they are all pregnant by the age of 18 and drawing dole.
    3. The place is extremely zenophobic and narrow minded.
    4. There are no decent bar/clubs.
    5. The place has to be the most divided and sectarian city in Ireland.
    6. The place is full of scumbags.


    Don't hold back,tell us what you really think....?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Leixlip is a bit of a dive tbh
    This coming from a stab city person.
    Hey, we gave the world Guinness.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Cork. Its totally Cork. Because of the people. And their ridiculous attitude. And the ****in peoples republic tee shirts. They wouldnt spend christmas, and the accent they have on them. Sounds like a small dog having its balls trod on.
    Thing is, when I moved to Dublin, I didn't think of myself as a Cork person - it just didn't register with me as an issue. However, I became exceptionally aware of it after a while - because the Dubs I encountered wouldn't bloody shut up about it. *crap attempt at Cork accent*: "Oh you're from CARK are YAA??!! Up da rebels!! De People's Republic" etc.
    So I think this obsession with Cork identity is more a characteristic of non-Cork people than Cork people. And the whole People's Republic thing is only a bit of a laugh. Seriously. Sure, there is the odd idiot who is sad enough to think that Cork is the centre of the universe, but these people generally aren't worth knowing anyway.
    And jesus the towns around that ****ing city. I ask you. Just horrible ****ty horrible ****hole.
    Well that IS true. Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, the aforementioned Mitchelstown (I know, I don't get the "M" thing), Bandon - these should, nay MUST, be nuked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    Worst place in Ireland has to be anywhere in rural Co Kilkenny. The city is very nice, but anywhere outside is just sh1te. I've heard of visitors passing through places with harsh, guttural-sounding names like Kilmaganny and Mullinavat and going "how pretty!", but what they don't hear is the sound of banjos being plucked and tractors being revved in the night.

    You could be beaten with a hurl to within an inch of your life for walking into pubs in these places wearing a Tipp or Waterford jersey, so imagine what it would be like if you were black or gay or otherwise standing out!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Yeah, the Dublin-Cork bus stops in Urlingford for about 15 minutes and one time I, being an idiot, took my time about getting my coffee, going to the loo etc, resulting in the bus going off without me. I was stranded in Urlingford for over two hours (the bus is every two hours but it was a Friday evening so traffic ensured there was another 40 minutes added to that :eek:).

    Not fun.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭Taters


    West Kerry. :) !


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    Cork. Its totally Cork. Because of the people. And their ridiculous attitude. And the ****in peoples republic tee shirts. They wouldnt spend christmas, and the accent they have on them. Sounds like a small dog having its balls trod on. And jesus the towns around that ****ing city. I ask you. Just horrible ****ty horrible ****hole. Lived there like 7 years. Nightmare. New Ross in Wexford is pretty ****ing bad. And Dublin. I mean Dublin just ****ing sucks. Junkies, morons, Dubs, traffic, a dirty smelly ****hole of a city. Oh and westmeath. Jesus. Those people have about two braincells to put together. And Tipperary. Its just a series of scumbags that decided to put some towns together so it would be easier to beat each other up and get sky digital. And anywhere in Connaught, except Galway, also totally totally sucks. And also Tralee, Kilkenny and Ennis.
    Actually hang on. Maybe I should list the places that I like. That would probably save some time.
    ...
    ...
    Any ideas?

    Where are you from, doc?
    dudess wrote:
    Yeah, the Dublin-Cork bus stops in Urlingford for about 15 minutes and one time I, being an idiot, took my time about getting my coffee, going to the loo etc, resulting in the bus going off without me. I was stranded in Urlingford for over two hours (the bus is every two hours but it was a Friday evening so traffic ensured there was another 40 minutes added to that ).

    Not fun.

    Haha, was that the aircoach you were on? I know the pain well. Urlingford is frightening. Imagine missing the last bus and having to spend the night there - some of the locals look like they turn into werewolves after dark.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭Anto McC


    I agree with the OP, Londonderry City is in my opinion the worst place in Ireland.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭philstar


    worst place in ireland??.............its gotta be ...the.....morbid midlands:(

    when ever i drive through the place i have to have a prozac sandwich to cheer myself up

    Monasterevin > oh no!!
    Portlaoise> oh god!!
    Mountrath > jayus!!
    Borris in Ossry > **** no!!
    Roscrea > the gloom is setting in
    Moneygall > time to slit my wrists

    btw u could also include carlow town, shannon, tallaght and leitrim


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    agamemnon wrote:
    Haha, was that the aircoach you were on? I know the pain well. Urlingford is frightening. Imagine missing the last bus and having to spend the night there - some of the locals look like they turn into werewolves after dark.
    Bus Eireann - hadn't discovered the Aircoach, which is a far more professional service. Yeah, that thought kept popping into my head to remind me of how lucky I was. The horror if it was the last bus!!! :eek: I wonder whether there's even a guesthouse there.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 848 ✭✭✭MayMay


    Limerick city....knacker hole....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    It can't be worse than Maynooth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭eoin5


    Terry wrote:
    It can't be worse than Maynooth.

    I live in Maynooth and it aint pretty but Celbridge seems to have gone that extra step towards oblivion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,174 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Orange69 wrote:
    I would say it wasn't mentioned because its far from the worst... I was visiting Limerick a couple of weeks back and was just blown away.. They have high rise buildings on the river now and i love the the new henry street area.. the place is booming! Although with all the construction it was very dusty everywhere.. They seem to be building a tunnel under the Shannon river also?

    Its crazy saying dublin is the worst place in Ireland too, Some of the suburbs are soul less alright and transport can be a pain but on the whole the city is great!

    The most depressing places in Ireland imo are gort (planning hell) and belfast...
    Ya limerick is booming alright, we have left behind the days of being looked down upon by the rest of the country, it is now my joint favourite city in the country along side cork. ya there building a tunnel under the shannon very much like the jack lynch tunnel in cork.

    Personally I've never been much of a fan of galway city but I suppose the worst on the whole island would have to be derry


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 -umbrella-ella-


    I'm not from Derry City, I'm from South Derry.

    I don't understand how you can call yourself Irish and call it L.....Derry.

    Anyways looks like i've got to get a new passport :rolleyes: .....as i'm not Irish.

    Better tell Derry minors not to turn up in Navan, how can they play in an All Ireland Minor Semi-Final Replay.

    I guess Derry City will have to stop playing in the League of Ireland.

    I don't like Derry City either, some rough places about it!

    But the worst place has to be Clones, Co. Monaghan.


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