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Most grim places in Ireland

  • 17-11-2014 10:23AM
    #1
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭


    What are the areas, towns, cities, estates which you can't get out of quick enough?

    Places which assault your senses with their architecture, aroma and ambiance. Places that would benefit more from a bulldozer than a lick of paint. Places that you would never send a tourist under any circumstances.

    For me it would be large swathes of Dublin's Citywest. Particularly the estates near the business park. Featureless. Bands of feral children. Depressing.


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  • #2
    Egginacup
    Site Banned Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Egginacup


    Moate


    FCUKING KIP


  • #3
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    Every city has estates with a lot of homes boarded up etc.


  • #4
    Sclosages
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 489 ✭✭Sclosages


    Edgeworthstown


  • #5
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    My toilet.

    And yes, I have told tourists not to go near it.


  • #6
    nelly17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭nelly17


    Ballymount - Industrial Greyness & Guys in Hiaces scouring skips with the constant roar of the M50 and Naas road in the background


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  • #7
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Tallaght


  • #8
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Going from recent experience (ie the last 45 minutes), it would have to be the M50 for me. Especially the bit from the airport to the M4.


  • #9
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    Anywhere in Laois is a kip


  • #10
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    Inside the M50.


  • #11
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    jobstown in tallaght

    joan burton can vouch for that


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  • #12
    The_Pretender
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭The_Pretender


    I've said it before and I'll say it again - Athy!


  • #13
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    Sligo ... Was there once in the winter for a conference in the IT. It was so Soviet. Cold and desolate. A bit like 1984 meets Eraserhead. The locals were not anything better . Parked at lights and some unassuming old man waiting to cross the road shakes his fists and yells "**** off back to Dublin ya *****".

    Won't be going back to Sligo town again.


  • #14
    Leilak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭Leilak


    donaghmede


  • #15
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Stunning scenary ~ Donegal, but horrible people. Whenever I go there with work I look forward to seeing it again, but when I'm there I can't wait to gtfo again.


  • #16
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Any predictions on how quickly this will escalate into this weeks Dublin v Rest of the country flare up.


  • #17
    chasmcb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭chasmcb


    Reminds me of this old gem (I think Rocky DeValera penned it):

    Ballinasloe is no place to go
    Strokestown is rather bad
    Naas they say is quite a place
    But f*ck me, Kinnegad!


  • #18
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,994 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    What are the areas, towns, cities, estates which you can't get out of quick enough?

    Places which assault your senses with their architecture, aroma and ambiance. Places that would benefit more from a bulldozer than a lick of paint. Places that you would never send a tourist under any circumstances.

    For me it would be large swathes of Dublin's Citywest. Particularly the estates near the business park. Featureless. Bands of feral children. Depressing.

    Citywest is a pleasant place, the Estates on fortunestown lane next to it aren't the nicest places in the world, usually reported in the media along with descriptions of violent crime. Citywest itself has a shopping centre a Luas line and a new Park that's currently under construction. All of which will be/have been vandalized by the feral youths you mentioned.

    Glazers Out!



  • #19
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    Tyson Mysterious Backhoe wrote: »
    Stunning scenary ~ Donegal, but horrible people. Whenever I go there with work I look forward to seeing it again, but when I'm there I can't wait to gtfo again.

    :D Out of curiousity, whats wrong with the people?


  • #20
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,994 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Lapin wrote: »
    Any predictions on how quickly this will escalate into this weeks Dublin v Rest of the country flare up.

    No but I can recommend a cream to deal with the flare up.

    Glazers Out!



  • #21
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Charleville, North Cork.
    Should just hand it over to Limerick and be done with it!


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  • #22
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Red Pepper wrote: »
    :D Out of curiousity, whats wrong with the people?

    We have no time for bullsh1tters :p


  • #23
    auldgranny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 909 ✭✭✭auldgranny


    New Ross


  • #24
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    Any town in the midlands/the midlands in general.


  • #25
    BunkMoreland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 820 ✭✭✭BunkMoreland


    Any town with lots of travellers.


  • #26
    Nidgeweasel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Nidgeweasel


    Tyson Mysterious Backhoe wrote: »
    Stunning scenary ~ Donegal, but horrible people. Whenever I go there with work I look forward to seeing it again, but when I'm there I can't wait to gtfo again.

    I'd take a look in the mirror if I was you. Horrible people my arse.

    My two penneth- granard. Dump.


  • #27
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    chasmcb wrote: »
    Reminds me of this old gem (I think Rocky DeValera penned it):

    Ballinasloe is no place to go
    Strokestown is rather bad
    Naas they say is quite a place
    But f*ck me, Kinnegad!

    whats the name of that song??


  • #28
    Iranoutofideas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Iranoutofideas


    Bortis in Ossary - its like something from beyyond the thunderdome crossed with Outbreak


  • #29
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    chasmcb wrote: »
    Reminds me of this old gem (I think Rocky DeValera penned it):

    Ballinasloe is no place to go
    Strokestown is rather bad
    Naas they say is quite a place
    But f*ck me, Kinnegad!

    Brilliant, I'll be singing it loudly the next time I'm there.


  • #30
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I'm not sure of the names of the estates, but anywhere from Hyde road in Limerick on the way to the Regional Hospital is like some kind of zoo or alien planet. Of course there are decent normal human beings living in those areas too, it's just that the types that I often encounter on the bus to and from the hospital is scarily scummy. I was on the bus to the hospital a few weeks ago and 2 of the scummiest druggie types I'd ever seen sat behind me. I spent the whole journey thinking 'please don't hurt me'.


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  • #31
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    Portadown, bitter hell hole.


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