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What is the most depressing looking town in Ireland?

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    #62
    syklops
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    anncoates wrote: »
    Limerick albeit a city although I actually like it very much as a place to go out in..

    Limerick has depressing areas, I will admit, but you're never more than a few miles from the city centre via public transport where craic can be had. You can even walk in if necessary. There are some towns in remote, rural parts of Ireland where there really is no hope of anything.


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    #63
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,372 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Deank wrote: »
    On PURPOSE, where are the mods, that's horrific, instant site ban for that shíte.:pac:

    It a funny song about a depressing place in Ireland, I should have maybe narrowed it down to just three, I wish there was a Youtube clip of him singing it, but none around
    :
    Oh in Ireland's fight for her birthright
    we had no glorious share
    For the Black and Tans with their trucks and guns
    never knew that we were there
    Now they've gone away and 'tis sad to say,
    things haven't changed a jot
    For in Leinster House neither Minister nor mouse,
    gives a sugar about Drumsnot.

    Our hedge-master died in eighteen-o-five
    and since then we have had no school
    And for all we see of C.I.E.
    we might as well be in Kabul
    Ah but soon we might get th'oul electric light –
    and then again we might not
    And the Christmas mail arrives without fail –
    around Easter in Drumsnot.

    Oh a telephone kiosk or a Shi'ite mosque
    would be equal novelties there
    So our smoky signals and dopey pigeons
    our urgent messages bear
    And no motor car has yet got that far
    for the Spring Show could justly allot
    For sheer scope and size a major prize
    to each pothole around Drumsnot.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #64
    magentis
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    Deank wrote: »
    For effect, that okay?

    *feels bad*

    Cheeseus christ there are some ****ehawks around tonight.


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    #65
    magentis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭magentis


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    It a funny song about a depressing place in Ireland, I should have maybe narrowed it down to just three, I wish there was a Youtube clip of him singing it, but none around
    :
    Oh in Ireland's fight for her birthright
    we had no glorious share
    For the Black and Tans with their trucks and guns
    never knew that we were there
    Now they've gone away and 'tis sad to say,
    things haven't changed a jot
    For in Leinster House neither Minister nor mouse,
    gives a sugar about Drumsnot.

    Our hedge-master died in eighteen-o-five
    and since then we have had no school
    And for all we see of C.I.E.
    we might as well be in Kabul
    Ah but soon we might get th'oul electric light –
    and then again we might not
    And the Christmas mail arrives without fail –
    around Easter in Drumsnot.

    Oh a telephone kiosk or a Shi'ite mosque
    would be equal novelties there
    So our smoky signals and dopey pigeons
    our urgent messages bear
    And no motor car has yet got that far
    for the Spring Show could justly allot
    For sheer scope and size a major prize
    to each pothole around Drumsnot.

    Fcuk me.Is this what you are reduced to in Galway


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    #66
    CatLou
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭CatLou


    Drogheda is depressing.


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    #67
    evancunny95
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭evancunny95


    Baltinglass in Wicklow.Just an utter ****hole. Have a sign up upon entering the town celebrating winning the All Ireland in 1990...


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    #68
    syklops
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    Perhaps a Thread Retitle could be sought...."Is there a Town in Ireland which is not depressing looking".

    To be fair there is a lot of nice looking villages and towns in Ireland. There is also a lot of depressing ones, also.


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    #69
    nocoverart
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    That long ass post (and the quoted post) took me longer to get through than the bottleneck kip that is Athy in rush hour.


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    #70
    cactuspaw
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    Kilbeggan, co Westmeath . I go through it a lot and it annoys me how a town that has so much going for it ( main Dublin to Galway road/bus route , busy horse racing course outside it, large tourist attraction in Killbeggan Distillary etc) is such a rundown place. I think they only got their first ATM last year.


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    #71
    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    magentis wrote: »
    Cheeseus christ there are some ****ehawks around tonight.

    Lightweights in fairness, next :pac:


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    #72
    ch20
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭ch20


    Newport town in Tipperary. the town has no character, the roads around the town are bad with potholes.


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    #73
    pebbles21
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    Bargaintown ...most depressing display of beds I've ever seen!


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    #74
    Dirty Dingus McGee
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    Edenderry or Clara.


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    #75
    FrKurtFahrt
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    The town of Naas is a terrible place,
    Kilcock is just as bad,
    Newcastle West was never the best
    But fcuk me, Kinnegad?

    I also spent a fortnight in Claremorris one night - wont happen again.


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    #76
    Deank
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    FrKurtFahrt wrote: »
    The town of Naas is a terrible place,
    Kilcock is just as bad,
    Newcastle West was never the best
    But fcuk me, Kinnegad?

    I also spent a fortnight in Claremorris one night - wont happen again.

    Dreadful places alright, that fortnight must have seemed like an eternity.


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    #77
    obezyana
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    Thomastown Kilkenny is a horrible place.


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    #78
    beano345
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    Ballyragget co Kilkenny...I call it ballyregret


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    #79
    Surenotabother
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭Surenotabother


    Hsve to say clara town in offaly is dead like, the best thing is the road out of it


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    #80
    cactuspaw
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭cactuspaw


    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    Edenderry or Clara.

    But it's always Christmas in Clara!

    No seriously the decorations are still up


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    #81
    siblers
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    Castleisland, absolute ****hole.


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    #82
    tastyt
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    Tail Docker wrote: »
    Rosegreen Co Tipp, it is a mighty kip, and Robertstown, Co Kildare, jasus lads, it's rough. Thurles is no tidy town either.

    Rosegreen yes but thurles isn't the worst in fairness


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    #83
    Reindeer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    ... made me think i was in a time warp.

    You say that like it's a bad thing


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    #84
    demakinz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭demakinz


    Rathangan
    Ballyfermot
    Clara


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    #85
    Carry
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    Elphin, Co Roscommon.

    Words fail me.
    Town of the dead, wanted to stop, but accelerated for fear of zombies.


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    #86
    Julius Seizure
    Closed Accounts Posts: 459 ✭✭Julius Seizure


    Grand_Rajnah wrote: »
    Urlingford Co. Kilkenny is an absolute hole of a town

    To call it a town is saying a bit much though ;)

    I vote for Mostrim/Edgeworthstown, oh, or Templetuohy!


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    #87
    catonthewire
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    Coalisland Co Tyrone..


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    #88
    siblers
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    Gort as well, of all the places the Brazilians could have gone to in this Island!


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    #89
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    syklops wrote: »
    To be fair there is a lot of nice looking villages and towns in Ireland. There is also a lot of depressing ones, also.

    Yup,I'm sure there are...but I'm having a mental block right now ....just can't bring any to mind....?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



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    #90
    Miccoli
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭Miccoli


    Macroom or Balbriggan both ****holes.


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    #91
    siblers
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    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Yup,I'm sure there are...but I'm having a mental block right now ....just can't bring any to mind....?

    Killarney, Dingle, Kinsale, Kenmare...


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