The Crapness of your Hometown

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.

mikemac1 · 02-05-2012 5:59pm

Be thankful none of you are from Tipp Town

Even the county of Tipperary is ashamed of that town
We'd transfer it to Limerick if we could

Tipp forum ran a thread of worst town in the county and Tipp Town won by a mile.
So bad Primetime Investigates sent a film crew down to use it as an example of people living in fear in housing estates

cocoshovel · 02-05-2012 6:27pm

I think Waterford is 100 times nicer than most other cities/large towns in this country. Sure we have a high unemployment rate at the moment but the city centre itself is nice and has a great buzz around times like christmass. Looks a lot nicer than other places in this country and it seems like we have a much lower crime rate. I think it must be the abandoned docks that gives everyone a bad impression of them place, because everyone seems to despise the place for some reason. Yet when I visit Dublin/Limerick/Cork/Tipperary/other counties they come across as worse. Maybe a lot of people view their home town like I do, but I for one am very critical of bad things in this country and for me to say good about somewhere is odd.

Kamjana · 02-05-2012 6:30pm

Not my town but Carlow is a shithole, followed closely by Tramore.

mikemac1 · 02-05-2012 6:36pm

Was in Waterford City only once

That big hotel up on the cliffs.
Actually that might be Kilkenny I don't realy know
But do something with it, either knock it or develop it as it's rotting away up there

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I see the locals have declared it is a five star

Agricola · 02-05-2012 6:37pm

mikemac1 wrote: »

Was in Waterford City only once

That big hotel up on the cliffs.
Actually that might be Kilkenny I don't realy know
But do something with it, either knock it or develop it as it's rotting away up there

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Yeah the old Jury's Hotel on the way into Waterford.

cocoshovel · 02-05-2012 6:50pm

mikemac1 wrote: »

Was in Waterford City only once

That big hotel up on the cliffs.
Actually that might be Kilkenny I don't realy know
But do something with it, either knock it or develop it as it's rotting away up there

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I see the locals have declared it is a five star

We want it gone, but no such luck in getting that to happen. Was a nice place back when it was open. However, we have covered it with a big white sheet thing. So at least its now just a big white block. :pac: