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Worst city in Ireland

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  • #152
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Maybe you all could look through a few pages before calling my beloved home a kip.

    Unless of course you are referring to a certain group of people that may or may not have wheels on their houses.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056041926


  • #153
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Dudess wrote: »
    Oh come on! This stems from you saying Ennis is a dangerous place in an overall sense. We both know Ennis is not a dangerous place overall.

    Did I say that?
    grindle wrote: »
    At night, very. The rest of the time it's grand. Sub-Tipp.

    Looks like I said it's grand, apart from at night, when all the feral gowls come out.
    Dudess wrote: »
    People in Cork say stuff like "Oh Douglas has gotten really rough" because of a few skangers hanging around Spar. A few groups do not sum up an area in its entirety. If a list of the hardest places in Ireland was compiled, Ennis would not be there! I'm not disputing Ennis could have a share of little sh1tbags who intimidate people, especially those they perceive as "weird" but to say that makes Ennis a dangerous, scary place is disingenuous and does a disservice to those who actually have to live in areas with a lot of intimidation and crime.

    Well then, saying anywhere in Ireland is dangerous, even the worst parts of Dublin or Limerick, is disingenuous, if you want to compare them to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, or hey, Syria!

    Yippee, the thread has been solved, Ireland CAN'T have a worst city, or any bad area at all, because other areas of the world "beat" them.

    Eh, no.

    Any intimidation or danger whatsoever, or lack of facilities, are the criteria.
    I don't think Ennis'd be on any list of hardest places either, but being intimidated (not feeling, but being) there counts against it.
    How can anybody say it shouldn't?
    Anyway, Shannon's WAAAAAAAAAAY shiittier than Ennis, and outside of Clare to the rest of Munster, Tralee, Tipp Town and Youghal are full to the brim with ignorant, violent scobes.
    Outside of Munster, Carlow, Mullingar and Portlaoise are diiiiiiiiives.

    Anybody can argue against me saying that, but the fact that all I'd have to do is walk down the main streets of any of those towns for a couple of hours to be called a queer (I'm straight, but, lyk, pyoor weak-lookin' lyk, n I tawk all posh. Y em I tawkin posh 4?) means it's a shiit-hole (this has happened in a few of those mentioned), unless it presents something worth the abuse (which those, and most towns, don't).


  • #154
    Jorcky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Jorcky


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Limerick is like a large halting site

    Hey! I grew up in Limerick, and sure it's not the most metropolitan of cities, but it's got some seriously beautiful aspects. King John's Castle? Swans on the Shannon? And I personally never feel unsafe there. Plus, nobody barks at you like they do in Caark.


  • #155
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Jorcky wrote: »
    Plus, nobody barks at you like they do in Caark.

    "C'mere, a-millAAAH?"

    "C'mere'n'I'll tell you a QUEStion!"

    "WAAAAH!"

    You've never, ever heard those in the city?


  • #156
    Melted
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Melted


    I love it when people "defend" their city and get all up tight about it! every City has more or less the same amenities/ attractions, if anything id say Dublin's stands out as being a more diverse city, i cant stand Dublin though, personal choice....


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  • #157
    Jorcky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Jorcky


    grindle wrote: »
    "C'mere, a-millAAAH?"

    "C'mere'n'I'll tell you a QUEStion!"

    "WAAAAH!"

    You've never, ever heard those in the city?

    No. From travellers, yes I've heard that, but not in Limerick.

    But having said that, I live in Drogheda, study in Dublin, and was born in Limerick, so maybe I'm just used to knackery accents.

    The barking is so much worse IMO.


  • #158
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Weird.
    Jorcky wrote: »
    The barking is so much worse IMO.

    It's pretty bad, but is it a bark? More of a yelp, I thought.

    A long, undulating yelp.


  • #159
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    grindle wrote: »
    all I'd have to do is walk down the main streets of any of those towns for a couple of hours to be called a queer

    you'd probably be called a wierdo and get odd looks for walking up and down the damn street for hours on end. :confused:


  • #160
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Mal-Adjusted wrote: »
    you'd probably be called a wierdo and get odd looks for walking up and down the damn street for hours on end. :confused:

    OhHolyFuck! So THAT was my problem!?
    Thanks maaaaaaaaaan. Now scumbags don't exist anymore!

    But wait, do they exist when I'm shopping, or doing a pub-crawl?
    I'm not sure about the rules and roles of scobification. Which actions of mine will maximise the knackerage?


  • #161
    NakedNNettles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭NakedNNettles


    Worst city in Ireland is Belfast.


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  • #162
    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    Dublin is a kip.
    Limerick is a kip.
    Haven't been to Cork recently so I cannot judge.
    Galway is a grand spot.


  • #163
    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    NakedNNettles wrote: »
    Worst city in Ireland is Belfast.
    Belfast City centre is probably the nicest in Ireland. Outside of that is a mixed bag of good and **** areas though.


  • #164
    Jay D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Jay D


    Rathcoole up north.

    Finglas down here.


  • #165
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,288 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Did anyone suggest Sligo?


  • #166
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭SeanW


    Des Bishop explained it years ago, when he was doing a comedy retelling of his "Joy in the Hood" work. He went to disadvantaged areas of all the main cities, Ballymun in Dublin, Knocknaheeny in Cork, Tuam in (County) Galway, and ... O'Malley Park, Southill, Limerick, where, even at the height of the Celtic Tiger property bubble, you could buy a house for €30,000.

    He put it this way:
    Des Bishop wrote:
    You get out of Ballymun, and you in Santry. You get out of Knocknaheeny, and you in Sundays Well. But when you leave Southill, you're still in Limerick.

    From what I understand, it was bad enough in the old days when the scumbags were confined to Moyross and Southill, but since those regeneration projects the scumbags were kicked out of those areas, and have been rehoused with rent allowance all over the city. Like spreading a cancer. :mad: ****ed up the whole place altogether.

    Well at least there's the N18 section of the Southern Bypass, the Shannon toll there is one of the few I do not recommend dodging ...


  • #167
    grenache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    Limerick and Waterford are number 1 & 2 on this poll by some distance.

    Limerick City is a special case. It's summed up by it's bus station and surrounding environ - like something out of Baghdad. I am particularly glad i moved to Cork.


  • #168
    PrincessLola
    Registered Users Posts: 851 ✭✭✭PrincessLola


    Galway seems to be really popular.

    They do have a mega Supermacs I suppose.



    (Is it bad that I've never been to Cork? I'm sure its very nice I've just never had a reason to go..)


  • #169
    BIG BAD JOHN
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭BIG BAD JOHN


    DoesNotCompute wrote: »

    I'm a Leixliplian

    I never knew till this morning that was the term for a citizen of your North Kildare town.
    You learn something every day.
    As it happens, we have family in Lucan and call them the Lucanites. I'm not sure what we should call people from Knocklyon though.:confused:


  • #170
    Fussy Eater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Fussy Eater


    If I was on the Irish tourist board I'd be pushing the lush green countryside and the coastline rather than the country's towns and cites. That and the friendliness of the people. That's my opinion as a foreigner...


  • #171
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    cournioni wrote: »
    Belfast City centre is probably the nicest in Ireland. Outside of that is a mixed bag of good and **** areas though.

    would agree with that, belfast city centre blows dublin city centre away in terms of aesthetics


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  • #172
    Fussy Eater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Fussy Eater


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    would agree with that, belfast city centre blows dublin city centre away in terms of aesthetics

    Not sure that's the wisest expression to use... ;)


  • #173
    EddyC15
    Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭EddyC15


    I went to college in Limerick and really enjoyed it.

    I wouldn't be into clubbing really and there was always plenty to do on a night out. Very friendly people in the more 'alternative' bars. Plenty of buzz from all the students. Some great gigs in Dolans.

    Good food was not hard to find, although it was mainly Chinese.

    There are a few art galleries there. The LCGA by the park is lovely for a stroll around. The other one is completely off the wall to the extent where we wondered for a good while whether or not a fire extinguisher was art.

    The park too is great when it's sunny. You can watch all the Muslims play football and chill out with a guitar or play frisbee.

    Yeah, you have to be careful around some parts but I never got into any trouble or anything. I've seen more fights on Grand Parade in Cork than in Limerick.

    All in all, I cannot say that Limerick is the worst city. I don't know what is.


  • #174
    Mountainlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭Mountainlad


    Was gonna say sligo til I read this http://www.sligotown.net/issligoatownoracity.shtml

    ...ah sure, I'll still go with Sligo!


  • #175
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Mountainlad wrote: »
    Was gonna say sligo til I read this http://www.sligotown.net/issligoatownoracity.shtml

    ...ah sure, I'll still go with Sligo!

    Like Kilkenny its a Borough..


  • #176
    7upfree
    Registered Users Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭7upfree


    FishBowel wrote: »
    Waterford - sh-t factory town (er city) where you're a nobody unless someone's spreading rumours about you!

    OMG the usual ignorant quote about my home City - the oldest in Ireland - ahead of even Dublin. Kilkenny is not a City.It doesn't even have a City Council- it has a borough Council.And there are bigger hosing estates in the other five that are the size of Kilkenny.

    The generalistations on here are amazing. I've been to Dublin, Cork,Limerick and Galway.

    * Limerick's depressing in parts, but no different to the other four.

    * Dublin's sheer size introduces its own problems.

    * Galway's beautiful.

    * Cork is a great spot.

    * Waterford is fantastic. A great City with an even greater, welcoming populace.

    The negative comments on here are just representative of the doomsday knockers in our midst. Bunch of morons the lot of them.

    The OP can't even get the number of cities right.


  • #177
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    These polls never achieve anything;
    Galway always comes out the best, Dublin generally around the worst. I've never been to Limerick and don't know enough about Cork to vote for it, but between Galway and Dublin, the former will always win for me.


  • #178
    FishBowel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 363 ✭✭FishBowel


    7upfree wrote: »

    * Waterford is fantastic. A great City with an even greater, welcoming populace.
    The only 'fantastic' thing about Waterford are the roads to Cork/Dublin where the brighter people can go to university and never return!


  • #179
    cartell_best
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    FishBowel wrote: »
    The only 'fantastic' thing about Waterford are the roads to Cork/Dublin where the brighter people can go to university and never return!

    Waterford is a brilliant city! are you a "brighter" person? if you are and you make a comment such as that...one of these "brighter people"... then thank God the roads out of Waterford do serve a reason!


  • #180
    FishBowel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 363 ✭✭FishBowel


    Waterford City has the biggest brain drain in Ireland. It's a place for factory workers with a strong union mentality. Eveyone else is either in the public sector or on the dole. The best and brightest are gone by 18!


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  • #181
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    I reckon the people who put down Waterford havent spent more than a day there.


  • #182
    Mouth of the South
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭Mouth of the South


    Cork and Galway- nice
    Waterford and Limerick - nice people, but kips
    Dublin- kip.


  • #183
    Executive Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,373 ✭✭✭Executive Steve


    Randy Anders wrote: »
    For gigs and general stuff to do, Limerick is probably the worst

    Dublin being the best in that regard


    Strongly disagree about Limerick being bad for gigs, there's a surprising amount of really really good stuff goes on down in Limerick. There's two really cool weekends lined up over the next month or two (i'm not involved in either)


    http://www.facebook.com/events/313791878704710/

    Bump! Music, Media and Electronic Arts Conference
    Bump!, native to Limerick city, is currently entering its third year of operation. Through bringing the most cutting edge and influential artists from both Ireland and abroad to the city, Bump! has garnered the reputation as “Irelands best left-field electronic music festival”

    After engaging with people over the past two years in a venue outside of the city itself, now, by incorporating numerous artistic forms into the event programme and spreading it across the many venues that Limerick has to offer it is our goal to re-engage and reinvigorate people towards that which the city has to offer.


    This new format brings with it an array of new possibilities and exciting event concepts. As opposed to taking place in one venue over 3 days, Bump! 2012 will feature in up to ten venues throughout the city centre. Singular events over the weekend will feature workshops, lectures, exclusive movie screenings and gigs featuring local, national and international artists. In keeping with the idea of regeneration there will be a special visual arts showcase involving the mapping of an iconic city centre building in which 3D visuals will be projected on to it, transforming the building like Limerick city has never seen before.

    The ethos of BUMP! is of community involvement, self-enablement and broader exposure for the music, arts and culture of the city both nationally and internationally. In order to further develop a comprehensive and integrated cultural offering and increase the profile of the city as a visitor destination. Bump! wishes to stage an event that will support tourism, culture, heritage and the arts in a bold and innovative way and by doing so will place Limerick in the positive light with which it deserves and is long overdue.


    Then in July there's the Make A Move festival showcasing Irish Hip Hop and street culture.

    http://www.facebook.com/makeamovelimerick


    Metal heads have the regular "Walls of Limerick" events, for clubs the Macronite collective do amazing work as well.


    I've DJ'ed in Limerick a few times now and I can honestly say it's always a pleasure and a privilege to get down there, lovely crowd of people altogether. I'd say it's my second favourite place after Dublin where I live.


  • #184
    bridget84
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭bridget84


    Jesus Juice wrote: »
    Limerick by far. Everyone is aggro, the women, the men, the kids! I like Cork and Galway.

    That's some generalisation.


  • #185
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Have only been in Linerick briefly so can't comment. Cork is grand. Love Dublin but Galway is by far my favourite place. Went for the first time last August to the AH beers and have been back a few times since. Going back in two weeks for another boards beers!


  • #186
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Every city in Ireland has its downsides

    People will vote Dublin because is has scumbags and junkies everywhere.

    People vote Limerick because it has a large gang problem, bad neighborhoods gets a lot of bad press in the media.

    I dont know much about Galway but it seems more popular than everywhere else, but to be honest it doesnt sound too great with all its travellers. Or at least thats what I hear.

    Cork - Don't know really. stupid accent? :pac:

    Waterford - High unemployment rate & people see the old factory and hotel on the north quay and immediately judge it on that.

    Kilkenny (dont care what it is) - Disliked because its small...or something

    Pretty much everyone from Dublin is going to vote another city as the worst. Everyone outside Dublin is probably going to vote for Dublin.


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