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Is Tuam the most depressing kip you have ever seen?

  • 23-05-2007 11:51pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭


    If I have to spend another year in this toilet of a town I will cut myself up in bits and post myself to China. It has nothing to redeem it, the nightlife is pure dangerous, the shops are overpriced junk and there is nowhere to park or get a nice meal. A half megaton bomb could be put to good use if anyone had a mind to drop it on the Square.

    Tuam - dump or kip? 4 votes

    Is Tuam the biggest kip you have ever seen?
    0% 0 votes
    I've never been to Tuam but I hear it is dire and should be burned
    100% 4 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Where is "Tuam rocks" option?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    I couldn't bring myself to include one - it would be like putting a poll about the ebola virus and asking people to vote on why they thought it would be nice to have your internal organs turn to mush and leak out through your eyes. I also noted how little traffic this corner of the forum had and didn't expect much in the line of feedback.

    For people who have never been to Tuam, it smells like a mixture of burned tyres, rotting fish and cowdung.

    'cptr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,041 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Castlerea. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭padi89


    I dont think its that bad at all, Ballinasloe on the otherhand..........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 955 ✭✭✭sickpuppy


    Padi im born and bred in ballinasloe and i agree with you.The town has gone to the dogs.I am 30 an in my late teens the town was booming load sof employment 3 nightclubs busy 4 nights aweek now its like aghost town.The rest of teh country has gone forward while bsloe is in reverse.OP if its that bad get the hell out move town move country stop whinging and get the flock out of there.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭singloud


    Johnny Rotten has roots here. Might explain things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭AMHRASACH


    . . the best thing about TOMB is Tony & Dara O'Neill's cycle shop. . & worrabow Frank Parsons & the new Lidl ain't half bad . .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    AMHRASACH wrote:
    . . the best thing about TOMB is Tony & Dara O'Neill's cycle shop. . & worrabow Frank Parsons & the new Lidl ain't half bad . .
    The bike shop, LIDL, English Steves car tuning shop, MG tool hire, Marios chipper. Thats about it really. Chume sux.

    'cptr


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    Ballinasloe is worse than tuam. Both are sh1te


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭dodgyme


    Lads Longford is the worse, even worse than tuam or ballinasloe.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭kevmy


    Yes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    sickpuppy wrote:
    Padi im born and bred in ballinasloe and i agree with you.The town has gone to the dogs.I am 30 an in my late teens the town was booming load sof employment 3 nightclubs busy 4 nights aweek now its like aghost town.The rest of teh country has gone forward while bsloe is in reverse.OP if its that bad get the hell out move town move country stop whinging and get the flock out of there.
    Until I saw this post I was going to argue that Ballinaslow seems like a nice, bustling little town but the last time I was there was about 20 years ago and you've explained nicely how things seem to have gone downhill there. :(

    As for Tuam, I haven't been there recently enough to know but it is my experience that as we all grow older we begin to wonder what else is out there and feel that there must be more to life than where we are and what we are doing. Maybe it is time you flew the nest 'cptr and looked into going somewhere else for a while. :) If you're away long enough you may actually enjoy returning home, I know I do!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 389 ✭✭Jamey


    Tuam is nice when you go a way for a while and then come back for a weekend or so. I also like:

    Monday Night sessions in the Brogue
    The Guinness in Junies
    The amateur drama's in the Mall
    the Music
    Tom Murphy
    Goin' down to the stadium on a Sunday to watch the Stars get beaten.
    Standing outside the town hall watching all the people go by, and you know every single one of them.

    Not a bad oul' place in fairness.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Amimad


    We just moved to the countryside 5 miles from Tuam. I have to say so far I haven't been disappointed.
    It seems like the type of town that's going places, It reminds me of where i grew up (Tallaght) before it got The Square, if anyone's been there lately (20 years on) it's developed so much.
    I hope Tuam starts to go that direction, but as every one knows being in the west maybe it'll take 50 years.

    Let us know a few decent spots for a pint!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Family is from Tuam, most of my roots come from there, and in recent years my parents have built their home there. That was 3 years ago, yet I have only ever lived there for a total of, uhm, 4 months.

    Tuam is a nice place to go back to every once in a while, the parks nice to walk through. The old swimming pool was terrible though.. haven't gone into the new one yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Jaden


    Nothing wrong with Tuam per se - the people on the other hand.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 389 ✭✭Jamey


    ya have to agree that if there was a 'strange characters of Tuam' thread, it would be a lot longer than the Galway one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭bagels


    interceptor et all,
    why not get involved in your community?
    theres plenty of organisations out there that badly need the help of volunteers!
    as the old saying goes 'you only get out what you put in'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Fey!


    I had the misfortune of going to school in Tuam, and have done my best to avoid setting foot in that town for the last 14 years.

    It should have been nuked years ago.

    My biggest problem there was the mindset; and the morons from the Belclare region.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 389 ✭✭Jamey


    Yeah, much of Tuams problems lie with the dirty buffers who come in from a few miles outside the town. They shouldn't be let in on weekends or bank holidays. They cause traffic problems, smell, are unintelligent, and drink all our tome Tuam beer. Buffs, skirt!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Fey!


    Jamey wrote:
    Yeah, much of Tuams problems lie with the dirty buffers who come in from a few miles outside the town. They shouldn't be let in on weekends or bank holidays. They cause traffic problems, smell, are unintelligent, and drink all our tome Tuam beer. Buffs, skirt!

    Stall the breeze! It's not as if the shams don't stink to high heaven; thinking that they're the greatest thing since the sliced pan. When I said that the place should be nuked, I didn't say that the population should be evacuated first.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    There was a great wine shop in Tuam called Bodega. That was the only reason I stop in Tuam, now I have no reason.

    I have never met ruder people in a pub than the people I came accross in a Tuam pub, I forget what pub it was, but talk about filthy looks, people blocking the bar on purpose, sneering, laughing and whispering.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Fey!


    lightening wrote:
    I have never met ruder people in a pub than the people I came accross in a Tuam pub, I forget what pub it was, but talk about filthy looks, people blocking the bar on purpose, sneering, laughing and whispering.

    That'll be the inbreeding. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Fey! wrote:
    That'll be the inbreeding. :p
    lmfao.:D
    My experience of Tuam.
    A few years ago i was doing a job there and i met 4 tradesmen from Tuam on the job. afterwards we were chatting , then one of the 4 said goodbye and left, the other 3 proceeded to tell me what a wan*** he was, not to be trusted etc. then one of the 3 remaining left, the other 2 started to tell me that he was only a wan*** / boll***s as well, or words to that effect. then another one left, and the last guy told me that the guy that just left was the worst wan*** of them all.
    Lovely People.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    galwayrush wrote:
    lmfao.:D
    My experience of Tuam.
    A few years ago i was doing a job there and i met 4 tradesmen from Tuam on the job. afterwards we were chatting , then one of the 4 said goodbye and left, the other 3 proceeded to tell me what a wan*** he was, not to be trusted etc. then one of the 3 remaining left, the other 2 started to tell me that he was only a wan*** / boll***s as well, or words to that effect. then another one left, and the last guy told me that the guy that just left was the worst wan*** of them all.
    Lovely People.:D
    You should have heard what he said about you when you left.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A quote from a colleague: "don't stop at the lights!, keep the car rolling as the knackers will nick the wheels".

    He hates the place, "full of knackers".

    I've driven through a few time but have never stopped! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Proxy


    Tuam's alright in small doses, like any town. I'd agree its going places, but theres a lot of loose ends to tie up. Needs proper leadership (no offence to Sally-Anne). Think local government in Ireland in general needs a hell of a kick in the ass. Ireland could be a great country, a sustainable power.

    But anyway, I spend most days in Galway, and I live outside Tuam, so I can take it or leave it. Most people in Tuam are nice (I work in a shop in the centre of the town) but theres a lot of "characters" too. Same as any other town.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 389 ✭✭Jamey


    Proxy wrote:
    Needs proper leadership (no offence to Sally-Anne).

    We've got it now, Martin Ward is the new mayor (again).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Proxy


    I'm wide. Nobody better at strategy than a traveller (seriously).


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 179 ✭✭david1two3


    I used to deliver milk there in the 70s and I never noticed but as I was drinking about 7-8 pints a day maybe that explains it. I love milk. I think what you need is someone to write a grating monotonous unsingable song about your village people like what had bin dunn in Fatten rye(Oh aye). They have great gossip in that town, so much so that the man about town can have two life stories, the one he lives and the one they talk about behind his crack.

    Oh aye a feel in Athenry is worth two in Tuam and three in Ballinasloe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    Declan Tierney should bite me. The Connaught Tribute is only good for lining budgie cages.

    Tuam IS a kip and its not going to get any better with the recent introduction of the Energise Tuam initiative, the Source nightclub selling cheaper drink or the widespread installation of CCTV. I recommend offering Tuam to North Korea as a nuclear warhead testing site. 20 megatonnes should just about do it...

    (Mods please feel free to merge with other Tuam = kip threads in 'Galway County' section)

    'cptr


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly



    Tuam IS a kip

    Couldn't agree less. Tuam is a great town. In fact, I would go as far as to say it is the best town in Ireland. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,380 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    The only good thing about Tuam is the Bypass:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 993 ✭✭✭offaly1


    Haven't been to tuam in years...since i was a childer! but if brilliant band like the saw doctors come from there it has to be a savage good town!:D:P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭rco2000


    Tuam IS a kip and its not going to get any better with the recent introduction of the Energise Tuam initiative,
    :mad::mad::confused::confused:
    I believe you are wrong... why are you so negative/narrow minded?:confused:.... word on the street is that The Energise Tuam Groups "Love Your Town"/"Tuam Reward Card" has been a resounding success- over 50 particpating stores offering discounts & free draws etc, plus the initiative has already being on the Mooney Show on RTE radio & the Keith Finnegan Show on GBFM. Both presenters & people ringing in were singing their praises & admired the initiative & positive approach taken by the business people of Tuam.

    Well done Tuam :) never mind the begrudgers...keep up the good work:)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    The only good thing about Tuam is the Bypass:pac:

    :pac:
    Just wish there was a bypass though, as it would really help solve the awful traffic problem on the Galway/Miltown Rd. It is becoming a daily nightmare at this stage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 CaptainWinters


    just moved to tuam from down south.. and tuam got left behind when the celtic tiger was around.
    polacks driving like ****ing madmen around town
    The main road into tuam from galway is ****ing dire
    It needs a zebra crossing on that side of the town.
    No Pennys Or Dunnes as the town needs choices
    i could go on and on and on and on......
    ...and what is the town councillor doing about... lazy s.o.b.'s
    We voted them in and then they get lost for another 5 years... dead beats..
    I will stop now..
    Capt winters out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    I will stop now..

    A top class rant - you get it all off your chest and you'll feel better.

    I spent two hours trying to buy a pair of runners in Tuam - its Elverys or nothing. Energise Tuam? Annihilate Tuam more like...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 contraceptor


    I quiet like tuam!

    'cptr


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 doggie1313


    what i love about this thread is that a dub from tallagh is the only one that likes tuam,says it all really:Dit is a f**king kip full of inbreed sheepshagging boggers that f**k there sisters!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 pauliewallie200


    doggie1313 wrote: »
    what i love about this thread is that a dub from tallagh is the only one that likes tuam,says it all really:Dit is a f**king kip full of inbreed sheepshagging boggers that f**k there sisters!


    Hey doggie, go back to the kennel & chew on your sister...plenty of them up in Tallaght:D
    There are a lot of good people in Tuam.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 johnmercer


    its just not this town

    the whole of ireland is crap

    the shops sell over priced crap

    the food is over priced

    the roads are the worse in the world

    the car tax is a rip off

    shall i go on?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 pauliewallie200


    johnmercer wrote: »
    its just not this town

    the whole of ireland is crap

    the shops sell over priced crap

    the food is over priced

    the roads are the worse in the world

    the car tax is a rip off

    shall i go on?


    Absolutely, why stop at that??:confused::D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 johnmercer


    the towns are dirty and no where to park

    nobody wants to work,when they do they do a crap job

    plus its rains everyday

    ireland used to be nice place:mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭blogga


    Tuam is bad alrite. Ballinasloe too. Too many...ahem...generationally disadvantaged. Did I say something wrong? Did I say something wrong? OMG please don't tell me I said something wrong!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 terribletim


    Sure it's a grade A shthole, but just one of the gazillion flat out fcked up good for nothing bogger reeking piece of goddam sh1tola towns that blight this blighted county.

    1. Please shower once a day. Make sure to wash your arse and balls, shampoo your hair, clean the wax out of your ears, and brush and floss your teeth. Your current hygiene regimen of sitting in a tub of soapy water twice a month is not working. I can smell you. You stink.

    2. Speak English. Slow it down by at least 50 percent, don't use burps as commas and "b'hey" as a period. Individual words are supposed to sound different - that is why they are spelled differently. Farts are only so funny. Stop eating cheese and onion crisps.

    3. Please stop using the train. Just stay put. The "higher learning" that you are engaging in in Galway is not going to improve your life in any way. The Galway>Dublin train sucks balls until you pass Tullamore and all of the sht have gotten off. If anybody gets on in Ballinasloe or Athenry, then you're ****ed all the way to Dublin (which aint too fcking great either).

    4. Please pull your heads out of your arses. You are making the planet Earth suck.

    :)

    P.S. Having a goddam Lidl open up in your town is not something to be happy about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Mr Velo


    Sure it's a grade A shthole, but just one of the gazillion flat out fcked up good for nothing bogger reeking piece of goddam sh1tola towns that blight this blighted county.

    1. Please shower once a day. Make sure to wash your arse and balls, shampoo your hair, clean the wax out of your ears, and brush and floss your teeth. Your current hygiene regimen of sitting in a tub of soapy water twice a month is not working. I can smell you. You stink.

    2. Speak English. Slow it down by at least 50 percent, don't use burps as commas and "b'hey" as a period. Individual words are supposed to sound different - that is why they are spelled differently. Farts are only so funny. Stop eating cheese and onion crisps.

    3. Please stop using the train. Just stay put. The "higher learning" that you are engaging in in Galway is not going to improve your life in any way. The Galway>Dublin train sucks balls until you pass Tullamore and all of the sht have gotten off. If anybody gets on in Ballinasloe or Athenry, then you're ****ed all the way to Dublin (which aint too fcking great either).

    4. Please pull your heads out of your arses. You are making the planet Earth suck.

    :)

    P.S. Having a goddam Lidl open up in your town is not something to be happy about.

    Think you need to pull your head out of your arse and stop being such a farkin snob.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 terribletim


    Gotta call it like I see it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 johnmercer


    i think your spot on mate

    good man for speaking your mind


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 956 ✭✭✭Mike...


    Castlerea. ;)

    dam someone got in there first


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