The Crapness of your Hometown

Eggy Baby! · 02-05-2012 1:00am #1

Navan, my hometown, is admittedly very crap.

Sometimes I walk through it and I believe Navan is a post-Soviet town. Grey buildings, it's raining all the time, overgrown gardens, roads filled with potholes, dilapidated apartments, rusting Celtic Tiger monuments, semi-complete building sites everywhere, rubbish scattered all over the place....

What about you guys? Feel free to speak of the crapness of your hometowns (I'm not exaggerating about mine

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Washington Irving · 02-05-2012 1:02am

Navan can't be that bad, it's a palindrome

IM0 · 02-05-2012 1:05am

mine isnt crap

AnonoBoy · 02-05-2012 1:05am

Nobody can top Navan.

Sorry OP.

Out of all the hometowns and childhoods on boards.ie you had the worst.

Hard to take I'd imagine but it's time someone told you the truth. Out of all the places in Ireland that you could be from your parents picked the crappest to rear you in.

Tough break.

Soz. LOL.

Crann na Beatha · 02-05-2012 1:06am

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stovelid · 02-05-2012 1:06am

Leave.

brummytom · 02-05-2012 1:08am

Yeah, Birmingham is.

Our tourist information centres just have a sign saying 'leave while you can'.

Eggy Baby! · 02-05-2012 1:08am

Navan can't be that bad, it's a palindrome

But so is "A Dog! A panic in a pagoda!"

And a panic in a pagoda is pretty bad.

P.S why is this making me type everything underlined? wtf

rossie1977 · 02-05-2012 1:12am

navan and portlaoise are like f**king new york compared to ballyhaunis, castlerea, ballaghaderreen or dunmore

McChubbin · 02-05-2012 1:13am

Swords. There be no drag queens.

MickySticks · 02-05-2012 1:14am

Aquila wrote: »

Portlaoise
/thread.

You win. What a horrible kip of a place.

Crann na Beatha · 02-05-2012 1:14am

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RichieC · 02-05-2012 1:15am

I like Navan, It's a decent town for a few pints, we usually have the craic. Admittedly I don't live there but I'd be down fairly often.

Eggy Baby! · 02-05-2012 1:15am

navan and portlaoise are like f**king new york compared to ballyhaunis, castlerea, ballaghaderreen or dunmore

New York is a kip though.

Dudess · 02-05-2012 1:15am

Navan even has its own micro-climate?

sheesh · 02-05-2012 1:17am

Tralee is rapid!

HazDanz · 02-05-2012 1:19am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CSFSX-Qh54

MaxSteele · 02-05-2012 1:19am

I doubt the towns mentioned have a patch on Dundalk or Drogheda.

Eggy Baby! · 02-05-2012 1:26am

Drogheda.

I was born there -_-

And it was a darker day ever since...

Naval even has its own micro-climate?

It always seems to be raining, interrupted by bouts of cold sunshine perhaps. Not a micro-climate, just generic Irish weather.

JupiterKid · 02-05-2012 1:44am

Navan is not that bad. It has a lot of problems that towns that grew too fast during the celtic tiger/property bubble era have, but the Boyne and Blackwater river valleys are quite scenic, it's now bypassed and the town centre has a bit of character.

Tipperary town, on the other hand...

Formation · 02-05-2012 1:47am

Ye clearly have not been to Longford

emigrate2012 · 02-05-2012 2:13am

Have read a few posts,god bless yis,thank fcuk I'm from from inside the Dublin city limits.
And to the poster from swords,lack of trannys is the least of it's problems,that place is a bona-fide hole.very clannish,thank god yis got a cinema out there,keeps the dcikheads out where they belong.Strangely a lot of hot chicks out there,that and the road to Dublin are the only good things to come out of it.

And before anyone gets on their high horse and comes galloping up to Dublin to give out,I won't apologize for anything said,it's a kip.

OneArt · 02-05-2012 2:22am

Pfft, at least your hometown has pubs.

In Swaziland all we had was a clump of six houses and the threat of bush fires.

Lionel Messy · 02-05-2012 2:25am

For a navan man, you speak english well. I did a course up there and the whole place is full of dickheads, travellers and/or drug taking scum. Serious scumbag problem there, you'll know some of the people i'd be on about. It's a kip.

humbert · 02-05-2012 2:32am

MaxSteele wrote: »

I doubt the towns mentioned have a patch on Dundalk.

Raises hand.

On the plus side, I've seldom ever been anywhere else I haven't wanted to be more. (I'm not even sure if that sentence makes sense).

blowitupref · 02-05-2012 2:37am

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

Sindri · 02-05-2012 2:46am

Drumree in Louth and Mountmellick in Laois are pretty dire. So is Monasterevin and Castledermot.

All are very isolated culturally and genetically.

TwoBirds · 02-05-2012 2:51am

rossie1977 wrote: »

navan and portlaoise are like f**king new york compared to ballyhaunis, castlerea, ballaghaderreen or dunmore

No offence to any natives, but I went to Dunmore with friends once for a party. The following morning, the four of us got up at the crack of dawn (literally), walked to the bus stop and stood there in the hailstones for over an hour, such was our desire to get out of the place.

Eggy Baby! · 02-05-2012 2:28pm

Lionel Messy wrote: »

For a navan man, you speak english well. I did a course up there and the whole place is full of dickheads, travellers and/or drug taking scum. Serious scumbag problem there, you'll know some of the people i'd be on about. It's a kip.

rofl

Most people in Navan can't speak English anyway, never mind speak it well

IdidIt · 02-05-2012 3:37pm

TwoBirds wrote: »

No offence to any natives, but I went to Dunmore with friends once for a party. The following morning, the four of us got up at the crack of dawn (literally), walked to the bus stop and stood there in the hailstones for over an hour, such was our desire to get out of the place.

Poor Dawn, she didn't walk right for a week.

herisson · 02-05-2012 3:40pm

Sindri wrote: »

Drumree in Louth and Mountmellick in Laois are pretty dire. So is Monasterevin and Castledermot.

All are very isolated culturally and genetically.

Castledermot is a kip! I used to hate driving through it on my way home from college the traffic would be awful!

Carlow is also a bit of a kip.... in the past few years it has been over run with scumbags and knackers :mad:

phasers · 02-05-2012 3:40pm

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

giant_midget · 02-05-2012 3:41pm

I do be up in Dubdalk quite a lot, what a massive dump that whole place is..The only nice part is the M1 exit so you can drive to a proper town. It reminds me of Drogheda in 1982, crappy rip off shops selling junk, Quite hard to find an ATM up the college end of the place....blow it up.. it's a kip

OldGoat · 02-05-2012 3:44pm

Town is feckin' awesome.

02-05-2012 3:45pm

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

Honest opinion · 02-05-2012 3:48pm

I'm suprised Gorey has'nt been mentioned if ever there was a more grim place with a bunch of grim people sequestered in a grim cliamate its Gorey (Wexford)

CK75 · 02-05-2012 3:50pm

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!

jester77 · 02-05-2012 3:57pm

Saul-Goode9 wrote: »

Navan can't be that bad, it's a palindrome

So you're saying it's crap no matter which way you look at it!!

castletownman · 02-05-2012 3:59pm

Honest opinion wrote: »

I'm suprised Gorey has'nt been mentioned if ever there was a more grim place with a bunch of grim people sequestered in a grim cliamate its Gorey (Wexford)

Hey now!

It has it's perks. Like the odd ghost estate. A scourge of young knackers. A ridiculous system of traffic lights at the top of the town. The annual influx of travellers for the patron. No decent nightclubs. An annual influx of Dublin **** every summer. The road to Courtown.

No place like home!

Sir Gallagher · 02-05-2012 4:07pm

phasers wrote: »

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

Depends on which side of the hump-backed bridge you live on. An aptly named bridge when it comes to Clondalkin now that i think of it.

2ndcoming · 02-05-2012 4:11pm

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!

Anywhere that views Waterford as a mecca must be woeful...

HalloweenJack · 02-05-2012 4:16pm

I think Bray's a dump.

A big problem is it being so close to Dublin so there's relatively few shops (considering the population) or other stuff to do. The attitude is if you want to do something, go to Dublin. The main street is dying in recent years. There's a disproportionate amount of scumbags/junkies and other general undesirables

If it weren't for the seaside and Bray Head, it'd be a billion times worse.

Though, FWIW, I imagine everyone who posts on this thread will say their hometown is the biggest dump. A better question would who's hometown is the best?

PeterB11 · 02-05-2012 4:28pm

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!

Was waiting for this one to pop up.

New Ross is definitely Ireland's answer to Auschwitz.

Most. Depressing. Town. EVER!!!

retalivity · 02-05-2012 4:50pm

HalloweenJack wrote: »

A better question would who's hometown is the best?

I grew up in a small village in donegal. It was great

02-05-2012 5:00pm

I started my life in Whitby in North Yorkshire. Fantastic place to be as a child. Shame the parents moved to the back of beyonds near Tuam.

O-Deazy · 02-05-2012 5:02pm

Eggy Baby! wrote: »

Navan, my hometown, is admittedly very crap.

retalivity wrote: »

I grew up in a small village in donegal. It was great

I grew up in Navan and then moved to a small village in Donegal when I was still a youngen. That was a bit of a culture shock to the system..

Navan is shíte but great at the same time because at least there's a bit of life about it. I think Tommy Tiernan summed it up calling it the halting site of all palindromes.

blatantrereg · 02-05-2012 5:07pm

Dundrum. Was a lovely place. Now it is a bit of a Mecca for pretentious kinds. Summed up by the cool second hand book shop specialising in sci fi and comics having to close - and it being replaced by a reiki parlour or some **** like that... Still a nice place though.

Corvo · 02-05-2012 5:09pm

New Ross. The butthole of Ireland.

Oscars Well. · 02-05-2012 5:10pm

I live in Drogheda, where do I even start?

Pilotdude5 · 02-05-2012 5:20pm

Its not my hometown but my favourite view of Macroom is in the rearview mirror.

stripysocks85 · 02-05-2012 5:55pm

I'm not mentioning mine by name [too embarrassed! And also afraid of being stalked.......] but I live ~30 miles from a cinema or bowling alley.

Case closed.

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