Is Dundalk the most dangerous town in Ireland?

trodsky · 23-10-2012 2:13pm #1

Was up in Dundalk for a night out last weekend. I seen 2 fights in a bar before the nightclub. Another 2 in a nightclub on main street.

After that walking to taxi rank the amount of scumbags just standing round waiting for trouble. Seen one guy defacating outside a chipper across from the nightclub on main street. Disgusting stuff.

Pretty grim place in my experience. Would anyone agree or was it just a bad night?

Ghandee · 23-10-2012 2:15pm

oh that's nasty.

Lapin · 23-10-2012 2:16pm

So you didn't get the ride in Dundalk ?

And the best thing you can think of - Create a revenge thread on Boards.

PizzamanIRL · 23-10-2012 2:16pm

A few fights on a weekend with drink involved more than likely and it's now the most dangerous town in Ireland?

FatherLen · 23-10-2012 2:16pm

according to this, it's not

Anyone · 23-10-2012 2:17pm

trodsky wrote: »

Was up in Dundalk for a night out last weekend. I seen 2 fights in a bar before the nightclub. Another 2 in a nightclub on main street.

After that walking to taxi rank the amount of scumbags just standing round waiting for trouble. Seen one guy defacating outside a chipper across from the nightclub on main street. Disgusting stuff.

Pretty grim place in my experience. Would anyone agree or was it just a bad night?

Seems the common thing with all incidents is you!

Anyway, I lived in Dundalk for a few years, its got its fair share of scumbags, but nothing more than any other major town or city.

humbert · 23-10-2012 2:18pm

As a yocal, which bar and which niteclub? It's a kip but I have to assume you don't frequent temple bar.

PizzamanIRL · 23-10-2012 2:19pm

trodsky wrote: »

That was my question wasn't it? Smart ass ****er

There was 5 fights in carlow and a lad got sick on a postbox. Dundalk loses.

syklops · 23-10-2012 2:20pm

So you saw 2 fights and you saw a load of scum bags standing around.

Was this your first time in a town?

23-10-2012 2:21pm

FatherLen wrote: »

according to this, it's not

Only Waterford, Galway and the Dub stations rank higher in total crimes which suggests it may be.

23-10-2012 2:23pm

trodsky wrote: »

Was up in Dundalk for a night out last weekend. I seen 2 fights in a bar before the nightclub. Another 2 in a nightclub on main street.

After that walking to taxi rank the amount of scumbags just standing round waiting for trouble. Seen one guy defacating outside a chipper across from the nightclub on main street. Disgusting stuff.

Pretty grim place in my experience. Would anyone agree or was it just a bad night?

No, that was a good night.

trodsky · 23-10-2012 2:24pm

Its certainly the worst town I've been in Ireland. Absolute kip.

Duff · 23-10-2012 2:24pm

It's graaand hey! It must've been Silence you were in, in which case, doesn't surprise me about the fights.

giant_midget · 23-10-2012 2:26pm

Dundalk is a dark dreary kip. I do be down there a lot a good friend of mine lives there, I do make a point of saying that to him on a regular basis :pac:

trodsky · 23-10-2012 2:28pm

How about asking the question like this.

How many towns have you seen people sh1tting on the main street?

Duff · 23-10-2012 2:30pm

trodsky wrote: »

How about asking the question like this.

How many towns have you seen people sh1tting on the main street?

Not a town but twice on Abbey st. in Dublin, once in Tralee and once outside Shenanigans in Sligo.

humbert · 23-10-2012 2:32pm

Lack of specifics, controversial conclusion, the OP is a troll.

Leftist · 23-10-2012 2:32pm

you can see a lot worse than that in most irish towns.

it all depends on the type of bars and nightclubs you go to.

Dundalk always had an edge to it though.

trodsky · 23-10-2012 2:32pm

Duff wrote: »

Not a town but twice on Abbey st. in Dublin, once in Tralee and once outside Shenanigans in Sligo.

OK then. Nothing unusual about that then so. Must be an Irish thing.

GavRedKing · 23-10-2012 2:33pm

trodsky wrote: »

Was up in Dundalk for a night out last weekend. I seen 2 fights in a bar before the nightclub. Another 2 in a nightclub on main street.

After that walking to taxi rank the amount of scumbags just standing round waiting for trouble. Seen one guy defacating outside a chipper across from the nightclub on main street. Disgusting stuff.

Pretty grim place in my experience. Would anyone agree or was it just a bad night?

You could replace Dundalk with any town/city in Ireland during a weekend and the result would be the same.

trodsky · 23-10-2012 2:35pm

humbert wrote: »

Lack of specifics, controversial conclusion, the OP is a troll.

No troll wise ass.

Specifics: Bar 1 COurtneys, Bar 2 The Brubaker. Niteclub called Ridleys. Guy sh1tting outside a chip shop directly across from Ridleys

Scram · 23-10-2012 2:37pm

trodsky wrote: »

Was up in Dundalk for a night out last weekend. I seen 2 fights in a bar before the nightclub. Another 2 in a nightclub on main street.

After that walking to taxi rank the amount of scumbags just standing round waiting for trouble. Seen one guy defacating outside a chipper across from the nightclub on main street. Disgusting stuff.

Pretty grim place in my experience. Would anyone agree or was it just a bad night?

Wait your lableing a town "most dangerous in ireland" because you seen 2 fights and one guy making a turd??????

Thats a common night night out in ireland these days. Lucky nobody was stabbed.

Leftist · 23-10-2012 2:40pm

FatherLen wrote: »

according to this, it's not

interesting to see Galway and Waterford so high on the figures for Attempted Murder and Assault. More than anywhere outside Dublin city centre.

latenia · 23-10-2012 2:40pm

Border towns anywhere in the world, along with ports, tend to be dodgy.

Anyone · 23-10-2012 2:41pm

Leftist wrote: »

interesting to see Galway and Waterford so high on the figures for Attempted Murder and Assault. More than anywhere outside Dublin city centre.

Aye "attempted", useless shower of..........

super_furry · 23-10-2012 2:42pm

Worst accent in the country, but not the worst place.

humbert · 23-10-2012 2:42pm

trodsky wrote: »

No troll wise ass.

Specifics: Bar 1 COurtneys, Bar 2 The Brubaker. Niteclub called Ridleys. Guy sh1tting outside a chip shop directly across from Ridleys

No chip shop across from Ridleys? Did you get very very drunk maybe?

Anyone · 23-10-2012 2:44pm

super_furry wrote: »

Worst accent in the country, but not the worst place.

Drogheda is worse imo, but yeah Dundalk isn't far off.

Leftist · 23-10-2012 2:47pm

humbert wrote: »

No chip shop across from Ridleys? Did you get very very drunk maybe?

story is full of holes, which is ironic because it's his hole were the turds came from probably. He was that drunk he didnt' even recognise his reflection.

PizzamanIRL · 23-10-2012 2:47pm

If sh!tting and fighting is dangerous then every household is dangerous.

kowloon · 23-10-2012 2:49pm

I heard they're renaming it to Baile Fallujahstan to better reflect the peril.

Xavi6 · 23-10-2012 2:50pm

Tis a rough oul part of the world alright, sure there's ex-RA heads all over the shop being a stone's throw from the division line.

Good for a night out though, and the Fairways does a decent pint.

homerjay2005 · 23-10-2012 2:52pm

Yep it is...its the most popular town in ireland for trouble.

unfortunately, i dont have any stats to back this up.

ShiverinEskimo · 23-10-2012 2:55pm

Living in and going out in Dundalk all my life.

Number of fights I've been in: 0

No better or worse than any town or city in Ireland. There's plenty of trouble if you go looking for it, but trouble rarely comes to you.

If you don't like it, stay away. The Town will survive without you like it has always done.

Tho I reckon you've never actually been judging by you thinking there's a chipper directly across from Ridleys when in fact there's a great big casino. Unless you mean poker chips maybe?

mark renton · 23-10-2012 2:55pm

Anyone wrote: »

Anyway, I lived in Dundalk for a few years, its got its fair share of scumbags, but nothing more than any other major town or city.

Since when is dundalk considered to be a major town or city??

ShiverinEskimo · 23-10-2012 2:56pm

john47832 wrote: »

Since when is dundalk considered to be a major town or city??

Since it's the largest town in Ireland apart from Drogheda.

I don't know what else could define a major town apart from being one of the biggest two.

DyldeBrill · 23-10-2012 2:58pm

Wouldn't say the most dangerous by any means.....

Up there with the smelliest tho!

gimmick · 23-10-2012 3:00pm

Roughest accent by some distance. Whether than constitutes danger I am not sure.

Flaker · 23-10-2012 3:01pm

I've been going out in that town for more than half my life and have seen about 1 fight in all that time. And I've NEVER seen anyone having a cr#p on the street. A few having a pee but that's all.

I'm usually drunk in fairness but I don't think that would make any difference as my eyes still work despite the beer goggles.

So either I've been really lucky or you were really unlucky but it's not a bad wee town in fairness.

ShiverinEskimo · 23-10-2012 3:01pm

gimmick wrote: »

Roughest accent by some distance. Whether than constitutes danger I am not sure.

I'm biased but I agree the Dundalk accent is rough as fook but the Drogheda one trumps all IMO when you take the worst examples of both.

mark renton · 23-10-2012 3:02pm

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

Since it's the largest town in Ireland apart from Drogheda.

I don't know what else could define a major town apart from being one of the biggest two.

When you say "largest" do you mean size, population, or other?

ShiverinEskimo · 23-10-2012 3:04pm

john47832 wrote: »

When you say "largest" do you mean size, population, or other?

Yea population but could well be both - people gotta live somewhere and we don't have high-rise, high-density tower blocks. Good few sprawling housing estates so it would be quite large in terms of geographical area too I reckon.

35,000 approx in Dundalk, 40,000 approx in Drogheda. Two largest towns by some distance iirc.

Edit - some linkage to back up my claims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland_by_population

The Master. · 23-10-2012 3:04pm

I found it to be quite an unwelcoming place.
its just close enough to the border to have that Northy suspiciousness you get.
It has a nice cacti display in the town hall though.

Funglegunk · 23-10-2012 3:09pm

It's a grand place for pints and the violence thing is massively exaggerated. Let's stop into the Pheonix for a pint and I'll tell ya all about it.

23-10-2012 3:13pm

GavRedKing wrote: »

You could replace Dundalk with any town/city in Ireland during a weekend and the result would be the same.

Towns and cities sure, but not the picturesque village of Kilmuckridge?

DyldeBrill · 23-10-2012 3:17pm

9959 wrote: »

Towns and cities sure, but not the picturesque village of Kilmuckridge?

ahhh i remember summers there by the beach, in that smelly caravan site!

stmol32 · 23-10-2012 3:18pm

trodsky wrote: »

After that walking to taxi rank the amount of scumbags just standing round waiting for trouble. Seen one guy defacating outside a chipper across from the nightclub on main street. Disgusting stuff.

How is this dangerous?

pom pom snaz peeler · 23-10-2012 3:19pm

Dundalk is alright IMO, its not a patch on Juarez!

DyldeBrill · 23-10-2012 3:20pm

stmol32 wrote: »

How is this dangerous?

well one might mistake this as curry sauce! one mightn't like to see it go to waste and dip a chip in.One might feel quite sick after

freddiek · 23-10-2012 3:24pm

great place to live, work, study, socialise etc. Dundalk ROCKS

Super-Rush · 23-10-2012 3:28pm

I've no idea why you thought After Hours was the right forum to complain about your experiences of a town in Louth.

Is Dundalk the most dangerous town in Ireland?

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