The Crapness of your Hometown

kissthesky · 03-05-2012 2:20am

have never lived/worked in Clonmel. Did the odd bit of shopping there and passed thru. seems a nice enough place on the surface but i have heard my younger sister ( 22yrs ) saying that its far from pleasant in the night time. very easy to get dragged into 'ur not from around here ' type rows. Thank God I'm past all that now!

IrishAm · 03-05-2012 2:25am

kissthesky wrote: »

Tipp town - insular,inward looking,parochial,suspicous,passive aggressive,gossipy,materialistic,greedy,grubby,inverted snobbery,violent,oppressive
I cant help these adjectives comin to mind when I think of the town

Good post, succinctly put.

I was there for 48 hours, at a family friends funeral. I was challenged to a scrap on the first night. The local hardman decided upon himself he needed to prove his toughness by starting a fight with a Dublin lad who was consoling his mother. :rolleyes:

On the day of the funeral I was getting the drinks in for me and me family. Every time I went to the bar the locals exchanged a few words. It went from brief pleasantries, to what am I doing in the town, to Dublin Gaa and how bad we are and how the fans are all scum, to asking me if I had any coke.

It got weirder and weirder everytime I went to the bar.

Drunkenly brought a girl back to my bed and breakfast a couple of miles away and after we done the bold thing, she told me was waiting on the results of a HIV test. :eek: The next morning her ex/current boyfriend was calling and texting her non stop and making threats against me.

Weird, weird fucking place.

kissthesky · 03-05-2012 2:26am

JupiterKid wrote: »

I hate to put places down but let's be honest here. Tipperary town makes the hillbilly cast of the film Deliverance look like chic and intelligent sophisticates.:cool:

It's not just the run down look of the town - quite a few Irish towns are shabby and insular. There's something else about it that is sinister and menacing. A place best driven through with the car buttons down and as quickly as possible. I'm amazed that it hasn't been bypassed yet by a road because it seems like it's been bypassed by the last 30 years of this country's history.

Have to agree with you there. I drove thru the main street today on my way to Dunnes. All I could think of was the background music to The Hills Have Eyes. What makes it even worse is that opposite Dunnes is an area known locally as, u guessed it The Tipperary Hills. DAH DA DAH DAH DA

IrishAm · 03-05-2012 2:34am

Wompa1 wrote: »

Spent my very early childhood in beautiful Westport Co Mayo and then moved to Headford, Co Galway

Thats a form a child abuse!

Taking a young child from picturesque Westport and uprooting him to the land that time forgot!

kissthesky · 03-05-2012 2:38am

The town was to have been bypassed about 10 years ago connecting the Limerick Rd to the Waterford Rd but it never happened and now probably never will. Apparently the reason the bypass was rejected at a time when it could have been built was that the local councillors etc maintained that the centre of the town, stop laughing now, would be diminished. In the meantime Dunnes, Tesco and Lidl have all been built on the outskirts of the town keeping the vested property owners happy that their (empty shops ) were at the heart of a thriving community located at the gateway to the South. I'd laugh if it wasnt so sad.

charlemont · 03-05-2012 2:40am

kissthesky wrote: »

Have to agree with you there. I drove thru the main street today on my way to Dunnes. All I could think of was the background music to The Hills Have Eyes. What makes it even worse is that opposite Dunnes is an area known locally as, u guessed it The Tipperary Hills. DAH DA DAH DAH DA

I had many a great time up there, drinking, smoking and riding, The Hills are the only decent thing there..I brought my son up there back in 2005 and the Travellers had set up shop, It was hilarious, Like a Travellers holiday camp and a bloody Samantha Mumba cd on repeat all day.

IrishAm · 03-05-2012 2:48am

Clondalkin is another mad kip. I once seen a lad in a Cork jersey fast asleep by the side of the StatOil petrol station beside Bewleys hotel. This was about 4am. Some scumbags had pissed all over him. He was drenched in it. He was staying next door and was only about 19. Poor bastard.

Thefirestarter · 03-05-2012 2:52am

Jammy Donut wrote: »

Not from there but Castletownbare....

Don't mean to offend locals, but this is an awful place.

Ever been to Castletownbare Island? I think it has an Island not to far from the coast. Truly shocking. It had a massive rusty oul' boat there and a load of burned out cars and tractors. It had 1 pub on it, that truly felt like stepping into the 60's.

Bizarre place.

IrishAm · 03-05-2012 2:52am

charlemont wrote: »

I had many a great time up there, drinking, smoking and riding, The Hills are the only decent thing there..I brought my son up there back in 2005 and the Travellers had set up shop, It was hilarious, Like a Travellers holiday camp and a bloody Samantha Mumba cd on repeat all day.

The elderly people I met down there were absolute gems.

It was only the relatively younger generation that were acting the bollix.

The welfare generation.

FanadMan · 03-05-2012 2:53am

I don't live in a town, just the middle of nowhere.....

charlemont · 03-05-2012 2:54am

IrishAm wrote: »

The elderly people I met down there were absolute gems.

It was only the relatively younger generation that were acting the bollix.

The welfare generation.

That's very true, Some nice people there, My son's grandparents are lovely people.

Jesus Wept · 03-05-2012 2:54am

I was in secondary school for 2 years in Navan and confirm that it is a grim hole.
It does have a shopping centre thought but it's **** since they got rid of the maze.

FinnLizzy · 03-05-2012 2:56am

Eight pages and not a mention of Boyle, Co. Roscommon!

It's like walking through the 80s! And they have virgin Mary statues galore, and one of them has a neon halo!

Luckily, I'm not from there, but have too luck at it on the bus.

charlemont · 03-05-2012 2:57am

IrishAm wrote: »

Clondalkin is another mad kip. I once seen a lad in a Cork jersey fast asleep by the side of the StatOil petrol station beside Bewleys hotel. This was about 4am. Some scumbags had pissed all over him. He was drenched in it. He was staying next door and was only about 19. Poor bastard.

My only memories of it were when my sister was nearby at Peamount back in the late 80's doing nursing, I can just about remember the Quinnworth and being on the bus. At least in these areas you can get around, Rural towns are too isolated so your stuck there all day.

kissthesky · 03-05-2012 2:58am

have to admit I lost my virginity in The Hills

but the soundtrack of the summer was The Joshua Tree. Never forget cycling home as happy as larry and then trying to explain the lovebite on my neck to my mother when I got home. Told her I got hit by a branch on the way home and then asked since when did trees have teeth. :P

charlemont · 03-05-2012 3:00am

IrishAm wrote: »

The elderly people I met down there were absolute gems.

It was only the relatively younger generation that were acting the bollix.

The welfare generation.

Half of them think they are the shít but their really only boggers that wouldn't last a day in Dublin. Fair amount of Limerick heads around there too, The locals show off in front of them.

Wompa1 · 03-05-2012 3:04am

charlemont wrote: »

Half of them think they are the shít but their really only boggers that wouldn't last a day in Dublin. Fair amount of Limerick heads around there too, The locals show off in front of them.

Wouldn't last a day in Dublin? As in Dublin is some sort of tough area to live? Imagine Ireland didn't have unemployment and single mothers allowance etc. Claiming Dublin is some way tough is laughable. Just because there's a lot of c*nts there, it doesn't make it tough. That kind of label makes people think they can act like thugs and be some how justified because their from the tough city pfffftttt

IrishAm · 03-05-2012 3:05am

Andy Carroll wrote: »

I was in secondary school for 2 years in Navan and confirm that it is a grim hole.
It does have a shopping centre thought but it's **** since they got rid of the maze.

You didnt pick up the accent, did you?

Please tell me you didnt pick up the accent.

99% of accents dont bother nor excite me. But the Navan accent is like someone running their fingernails down the blackboard.

charlemont · 03-05-2012 3:06am

kissthesky wrote: »

have to admit I lost my virginity in The Hills but the soundtrack of the summer was The Joshua Tree. Never forget cycling home as happy as larry and then trying to explain the lovebite on my neck to my mother when I got home. Told her I got hit by a branch on the way home and then asked since when did trees have teeth. :P

Do you ever remember all those guys with shaved heads back in the middle/late 90's ? Some pack of scumbags, They were always around the Main Street on the evenings, I was in a few fights with some of them, Jealous because I was with an ex of one of them.

JupiterKid · 03-05-2012 3:07am

Andy Carroll wrote: »

I was in secondary school for 2 years in Navan and confirm that it is a grim hole.
It does have a shopping centre thought but it's **** since they got rid of the maze.

I remember when the Navan Shopping Centre was being built back in the early 1980s. Its design at the time - like the glass space frame roof - was groundbreaking for the Ireland of 1981. My dad was involved in the financing of the centre and I saw the blueprints for the place as well as the maze. When the centre opened I was about 6 going on 7 and the maze was fantastic!:D:o:)

Sad to hear the maze is gone but they've extended the shopping centre hugely since it was first built as Navan has quadrupled in size since 1981. It is also very well located - right beside trhe heart of the town instead of at its edge.

charlemont · 03-05-2012 3:10am

Wompa1 wrote: »

Wouldn't last a day in Dublin? As in Dublin is some sort of tough area to live? Imagine Ireland didn't have unemployment and single mothers allowance etc. Claiming Dublin is some way tough is laughable. Just because there's a lot of c*nts there, it doesn't make it tough. That kind of label makes people think they can act like thugs and be some how justified because their from the tough city pfffftttt

The point I'm making is that in Dublin they would only be small fry, Its easy to be tough in a gang in a small town but a large city is different, I'v seen plenty of people leave their little towns with their attitudes and come back with their tail between their legs.

IrishAm · 03-05-2012 3:10am

Wompa1 wrote: »

Wouldn't last a day in Dublin? As in Dublin is some sort of tough area to live? Imagine Ireland didn't have unemployment and single mothers allowance etc. Claiming Dublin is some way tough is laughable. Just because there's a lot of c*nts there, it doesn't make it tough. That kind of label makes people think they can act like thugs and be some how justified because their from the tough city pfffftttt

Well said.

The toughest lads Ive ever met in Dublin are quiet and unassuming.

Mess with them and they would knock you out with a punch.

Dublin has some serious boxers. The gyms in Dublin teach working class lads how to live a decent life and not just how to fight.

The scrawny Dub who mouths off about who he knows and what he will do would shit his pants if you step up to him.

Agent Smith · 03-05-2012 3:10am

ricero wrote: »

i honestly believe i live in the best place in Ireland. the dun laoghaire area. beside the sea so can go to the beach, can get boat to england no bother,loads of recreational areas and of course easy access to dublin city and airport

Are you for real?

Dundrum killed Dun laoghaire. Now its just a depressing pile of **** of a town.

kissthesky · 03-05-2012 3:20am

charlemont wrote: »

Do you ever remember all those guys with shaved heads back in the middle/late 90's ? Some pack of scumbags, They were always around the Main Street on the evenings, I was in a few fights with some of them, Jealous because I was with an ex of one of them.

No. Moved to London in 91 and then thru the 90's just the odd few days home each year. Know what you mean though. I think I remember one lad in particular though, walking around town giving it the big one from Taxi Driver, as in u lookin at me?

Jesus Wept · 03-05-2012 3:25am

FAO OP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWjLBC_SUVI

flyswatter · 03-05-2012 3:44am

Drogheda is nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be here.

There are some good restaurants, scenery (Millmount) nice surrounding areas (Newgrange), decent shopping, 3/4 nightclubs. The cinema is poor and outdated but you wouldn't run out of things to do quickly.

I remember New Ross from my youth, such an average dull place. Gorey is just a bottleneck town.

Waterford seems alright.

Azhrei · 03-05-2012 4:33am

Not from there, but Youghal. How can a town with such a beautiful beach be so dreary and dull? Stand on the beach, turn around towards the town and take in all the grey. Goddammit.

Truley · 03-05-2012 8:00am

Tipperary Town sounds like something else, I'm intrigued! I actually want to visit it now just to see if the stories are true and it really is that bad

Thankfully I actually like my home town (Sligo,) and I kind of resent when people berate a place because it doesn't have the obligatory number of shopping centres, night clubs or 'things to do.' But I would look at things like aesthetics, social problems or just a vibe a place gives off. With that in mind I would definitely class Longford as a category A kip. It's drab and overrun with knackers.

Ellis Dee · 03-05-2012 8:09am

Aquila wrote: »

Portlaoise
/thread.

Portlaoise was never much cop as a place, but it's gone to the dogs altogether since so many Dubs moved in. :eek::eek::eek:

cournioni · 03-05-2012 8:28am

I love my home town and I love where I live now.

toexpress · 03-05-2012 8:31am

Nobody can top Navan? Seriously?

I live in Monasterevin. When you go down Main street it is a depressing line of closed down shops one after the other broken by the odd brave soul still working away at it. The Dublin Road, the old M7 in other words is a road that is basically a few derelict buildings again broken by a few brave souls (pubs take aways a hairdresser)

We all got excited because the Hazel was re-opening and if you are 60+ I hear it's great!

Then there is the infamous St. Evins Park ... a bomb couldn't sort it.

Best of all is a trip to the post office just about any morning, full of tracker knack*rs out to get their scratcher and not a looker among the bunch.

There is not one thing to do in this place, not a decent restaurant and if you are not into pubs then in order to have a night out you have to leave

Captain Graphite · 03-05-2012 8:44am

I'd say Mallow is pretty average on the crapness scale. Has a reputation in Cork for being a bit rough but really it's not any worse than other towns it's size. There are a few decent restaurants and pubs there. Only problem I find with is that it still has a pretty small town mentality, despite growing in size in the past few years.

If, God love you, you absolutely have to be based in north Cork than Mallow is probably the best place to be. Best thing about it is still the train station though; 25 minutes to Cork and all the Cork-to-Dublin trains stop there.

Funnily enough, I remember being in Tipp town about 10 years ago and thinking it seemed like quite a nice place. I was only about 11 or so though.

03-05-2012 9:29am

Newcastle West

statina · 03-05-2012 9:43am

Granard, Co Longford has to be the most depressing town in Ireland!

working fool · 03-05-2012 9:56am

flyswatter wrote: »

Drogheda is nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be here.

There are some good restaurants, scenery (Millmount) nice surrounding areas (Newgrange), decent shopping, 3/4 nightclubs. The cinema is poor and outdated but you wouldn't run out of things to do quickly.

I remember New Ross from my youth, such an average dull place. Gorey is just a bottleneck town.

Waterford seems alright.

Ever been to rathmullen in Drogheda ????
Makes Beirut look like Disneyland

cocoshovel · 03-05-2012 12:59pm

Speaking of Tipperary. Carrick on Suir is a kip, just saying.

mikemac1 · 03-05-2012 1:07pm

Nenagh, sure even the name in Irish means market town

Used to be a busy bustling place, now it's depressing

Dead and dying these days, looks like a dreary town from Dev's Ireland

The dole office is about the size of a chipper so people have to queue outside.
And the CBS is up the road so you queue for your dole and six hundred students walk past at lunch looking at you.
That's not good at all

There is development and investment but it's all big shops on the outside. Meanwhile the centre dies.
And not much good if you don't drive

Still, it's pretty quiet and just would not compare to the hellhole that is Tipp town

IrishAm · 03-05-2012 2:28pm

Ellis Dee wrote: »

Portlaoise was never much cop as a place, but it's gone to the dogs altogether since so many Dubs moved in. :eek::eek::eek:

Hurry up and die you old oxygen thief.

flyswatter · 03-05-2012 2:34pm

working fool wrote: »

flyswatter wrote: »

Drogheda is nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be here.

There are some good restaurants, scenery (Millmount) nice surrounding areas (Newgrange), decent shopping, 3/4 nightclubs. The cinema is poor and outdated but you wouldn't run out of things to do quickly.

I remember New Ross from my youth, such an average dull place. Gorey is just a bottleneck town.

Waterford seems alright.

Ever been to rathmullen in Drogheda ????
Makes Beirut look like Disneyland

Yeah, it has the towns best swimming pool.

noddyone2 · 03-05-2012 2:46pm

CK75 wrote: »

New Ross - the most depressing town in Ireland. Full of closed/boarded up shops, so grey and grim! Only good thing in it is the bridge to Waterford!

Wexford town isn't much better, shops closed everywhere, litter, dire parking.

wfdrun · 03-05-2012 3:03pm

as a visitor

Tipp town positives

25m swimming pool deep enough for/allows diving
running track
glen of aherlow, dundrum woods nearby
2 of three chippers serve a decent chip

maximoose · 03-05-2012 3:10pm

Carrickfergus.

Not a bad place at all. Would be a great wee town if it wasn't for the scum factor.

CavanCrew · 03-05-2012 3:28pm

<< :rolleyes:

ricero · 03-05-2012 3:43pm

Agent Smith wrote: »

Are you for real?

Dundrum killed Dun laoghaire. Now its just a depressing pile of **** of a town.

its took the shopping away from the town i admit that but its still better than over half the towns in ireland.

all dun laoghaire needs is a complete revamp of the worst shopping centre in dublin and it be grand

Eggy Baby! · 03-05-2012 7:44pm

Dublin is like Bangkok with smaller buildings and more shemales..

PseudoFamous · 03-05-2012 7:49pm

ricero wrote: »

its took the shopping away from the town i admit that but its still better than over half the towns in ireland.

all dun laoghaire needs is a complete revamp of the worst shopping centre in dublin and it be grand

I believe that the worst shopping centre in Dublin is the Irish Life Mall on Talbot St.

donegal_road · 03-05-2012 8:01pm

statina wrote: »

Granard, Co Longford has to be the most depressing town in Ireland!

I have never heard of it.. and I thought I knew the country

flanders1979 · 03-05-2012 8:07pm

I'm living in Tralee for the past few years. There was an incident in a local landfill earlier this week and a huge swarm of flies has descended on the town.
Beat that for crappiness

Mars Bar · 03-05-2012 8:30pm

blowitupref wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMr2QRsW0HU

I like the fact I can picture EXACTLY what they are singing about.

phasers wrote: »

clondalkin is a modern day Eden, a cultural and social paradise.

:pac:

At least it has regular buses to get out of it.

Deleted User wrote: »

None of ye obviously grew up in Tuam, the dogs on the streets go around in pairs. Its a traveller paradise though.

It's not the bad. Maybe I'm brainwashed?

the keen edge · 03-05-2012 10:13pm

kissthesky wrote: »

Tipp town - insular,inward looking,parochial,suspicous,passive aggressive,gossipy,materialistic,greedy,grubby,inverted snobbery,violent,oppressive
I cant help these adjectives comin to mind when I think of the town

Excellent post. I really got a great laugh out of it.

I just pictured some auld fella sitting on a bar stool in some dump of a pub in Tipperary displaying all of those emotions and characteristics one after the other.

The Crapness of your Hometown

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