Irelands toughest town

D-A-V-E

what do you think the toughest town in Ireland is? one of those places wher you just try avoiding at all times..ie loud tunes blaring out of the 'locals' cars etc..crime through the roof..anti social behaviour etc...i think rathkeale is atrocious! highest percentace of itinerents in the country..most intimidating place iv been to..crazy drivers..crazy looking ppl, place looks abandoned and delapitated..scary out!

Kess73

Rathkeale, Tipp Town, and maybe Newcastle West in time.


Rathkeale I would not stroll around on foot at anytime of the day.

Jumpy

Just to note, Billy is swift and harsh with the bans on traveller discussions. So keep it town focused, not people focused.

knightmare

Would say Clonmel or Ballinasloe --- Both rough as F***!

bullets

Believe it or not Kenmare after dark can get quite rough!!!

~B

soldering iron

Carrick on suir

TestTransmission

id have to second tipp town,ive relatives from there.spent a lot of my childhood there but i still hate going there...there's something in the water

Ninja_scrotum

Clonmell i'd say. Someone gets stabbed every saturday night.

Carrick on suir isn't too tough at all, it's just an absolute shit-hole.

The tipperary council has Carrick on Shite in the "shit town" section. My friend worked for the council, you can ask him.

rliston

Kess73 wrote: »

Rathkeale, Tipp Town, and maybe Newcastle West in time.


Rathkeale I would not stroll around on foot at anytime of the day.

i'd walk through Rathkeale at night before i'd go near Newcastle West

Kess73

rliston wrote: »

i'd walk through Rathkeale at night before i'd go near Newcastle West

After you.


I shall avoid both.

Poxyshamrock

Rathkeale or NCW

actionman85

Try rathmullen in drogheda, kids getting high all day, i do alot of community work and have to say the goverment should hand its head in shame with the drugs problem, im from dublin and finglas ballymun and blanch have nothing on rathmullen

1huge1

Rathkeale and NCW may be limericks toughest towns but their deffinetely not Ireland's

Tuam, Tullamore.

And if you include northern ireland (dont know why you would but what the hell) id say derry

utick

rough towns in ireland? ha is this some sort of joke?

Harpy

Dundalk.
Been there 3 times in the last few years and felt intimidated walkin through during the day.. one of the times some young one shouldered me and then started roarin abuse at me i didn't know what was goin on and this was in the middle of the day on the main street(well i think it was the main street)..
scary place

krudler

utick wrote: »

rough towns in ireland? ha is this some sort of joke?

this from the person who lives where disneyworld is, although downtown orlando is a complete no go area at times too, crack whore central

limerick_man

Tralee

1huge1

Oh ya forgot about tralee, good nightlife but very rough

utick

krudler wrote: »

this from the person who lives where disneyworld is, although downtown orlando is a complete no go area at times too, crack whore central

lol i go down town orlando every weekend at night nothing ever happens a few homeless people politely asking for money is about as bad as it gets downtown

Bighound

D-A-V-E wrote: »

what do you think the toughest town in Ireland is? one of those places wher you just try avoiding at all times..ie loud tunes blaring out of the 'locals' cars etc..crime through the roof..anti social behaviour etc...i think rathkeale is atrocious! highest percentace of itinerents in the country..most intimidating place iv been to..crazy drivers..crazy looking ppl, place looks abandoned and delapitated..scary out!

Sorry to correct ya there scan, but Tuam has the highest percentage of itinerents in the country followed by longford. Check it on the cso, 77 per 1000.

TestTransmission

1huge1 wrote: »

Rathkeale and NCW may be limericks toughest towns but their deffinetely not Ireland's

Tuam, Tullamore.

And if you include northern ireland (dont know why you would but what the hell) id say derry

Tullamore?ur having a laugh

Killiwee

I live between Rathkeale and NCW and would have to disagree with you about them being the roughest places.My husband worked the nightclub doors in Limerick city for 10 years and is now doing it in NCW and he even says that he 'd never do the city again. NCW has one or two bad as we call them rats going around but it s not as rough as th city.And Rathkeale might look rough but nothing mush ever happens. They tend to keep disagreements to themselves!

Tinytony

Killiwee wrote: »

.And Rathkeale might look rough but nothing mush ever happens. They tend to keep disagreements to themselves!

Ha, an intentional slip????

topper75

Most hassle I ever got was Ennis. Lots of lovely people of course but some right specimens amongst them. Queens disco is not a place you are allowed to 'mind your own business'. Ennis = tough town.

spankrocket

the roughest town in ireland is definitly castleisland Co.Kerry ( no1 unlawful town rated by the star newspaper back in 2007!!) its a ****hole full of scumbag/chavs, 'little' whores and junkies as young as 11 getting high, stabbings were rife 4 years ago, but cud happen again in two years wen the towns most dangerous resisdent comes out of prison, another guy stuck a pike through a dublin transfer shade(gardi) nose, he was so traumitised by it, he left the gards and hasnt been seen since, there just two examples how how bad the town is, another gard had to be transfered to another station after one notorius fella chased after hm up the town with a hachet , mad like . brawls are very common, like that incident 4 years ago wen a gang of travellers from limrick came in and started actin hard, they got the heads pucked of them from c.islands travellers and scumbag/chavs , no other town cud beat c.island in a brawl, some of our guys have gone into tralee , beat up a few fellas , and there wud be no reprisils !!! tralee are no saints either , that place cud take castleislands place for roughest and toughestbut i dought it . castlisland has 4 estates st stephans,cois lan mor, st johns and cahereen west,all = TROUBLE, st stephans being the roughest . castlisland has no jobs,no amnities,bad weather, alchos,drugs and scum and certinly in my view no future !

Azphyxi8

WTF is this? You bump an old thread as your 1st post?

Y2J_MUFC

Azphyxi8 wrote: »

WTF is this? You bump an old thread as your 1st post?

He, like you and me, is free to post on whatever thread he wishes that's not locked, with whatever number post he wants. At least he added something to the discussion!!

On topic: I've heard bad things about NCW and Rathkeale. They'd both get my vote.

puntosporting

So you hear something and it must be true?
Unless you have lived in every town in ireland then you cant realy judge can you?

Azphyxi8

Y2J_MUFC wrote: »

He, like you and me, is free to post on whatever thread he wishes that's not locked, with whatever number post he wants. At least he added something to the discussion!!

On topic: I've heard bad things about NCW and Rathkeale. They'd both get my vote.

Sheesh! Hows the view up there on your high horse?

Dunder Mifflin

I'd have to say Dundalk as well. Not actually from experience now, but just from the two guys I work with.

Jumpy

Y2J_MUFC wrote: »

He, like you and me, is free to post on whatever thread he wishes that's not locked, with whatever number post he wants. At least he added something to the discussion!!

On topic: I've heard bad things about NCW and Rathkeale. They'd both get my vote.

Actually, you might find that necro-threads are actually frowned upon and generally locked.

Insect Overlord

Jumpy wrote: »

Actually, you might find that necro-threads are actually frowned upon and generally locked.

+1

Old thread is old.

As for his (barely coherent) point, one of my best buddies in college is from Castleisland. He's one of the nicest gents I've ever met. Something tells me the poster in question is over-reacting a little bit.

mud

Jumpy wrote: »

Actually, you might find that necro-threads are actually frowned upon and generally locked.

That's hilarious, i've seen people start threads that are locked because 'it's been done before' then when someone replies to an old thread it gets locked, unnecessarily complicated

On topic I think the smaller towns and villages are worse than the bigger ones as there's very sporadic garda presence in these places

Insect Overlord

mud wrote: »

That's hilarious, i've seen people start threads that are locked because 'it's been done before' then when someone replies to an old thread it gets locked, unnecessarily complicated

Surely, if he wanted to make such a fierce assessment of Castleisland, he should have posted it in the Kerry forum? It's not as if he even wanted to discuss the general issue of tough towns, he just launched into a barely legible rant.

mud wrote:

On topic I think the smaller towns and villages are worse than the bigger ones as there's very sporadic garda presence in these places

That's a very general statement. When you compare the amount of attention urban attacks get in the media to the minute news-worthiness of small villages, it seems to negate your argument.

WaldenByThoreua

Spent a few days in Carrick-On Suir that weren't too pleasant..

Mars Bar

1huge1 wrote: »

Rathkeale and NCW may be limericks toughest towns but their deffinetely not Ireland's

Tuam, Tullamore.

And if you include northern ireland (dont know why you would but what the hell) id say derry

Pfft, Tuam isn't tough! You just don't get on the wrong side of the Travellers or the Foreigners, same as any town!

From what I hear, Shannon is pretty tough and dangerous...

zuroph

castleisland is well hard be-jaysus. to be sure.

:rolleyes: get urself up the country kid. and stop watchin them gangsta films.

Aidric

Any town with a knacker population is to be avoided IMO.

zuroph

ireland in total then.

TheLoc

Drogheda, dundalk and tipp town are the worst i've seen. I know Newcastle west can be but not as bad as everyone making out. just stay away from whispers night club haha. Tipp town and newport are awful scum holes

TheLoc

zuroph wrote: »

ireland in total then.

Yes basically ireland is a big lump of ****e. move to menorca and work in a quiet cocktail bar getting hammered and riding every female around. thats the dream

Mc Love

Tullamore is fair bad!

Dude can you not quote??!?

orlyice

sparkysrovers wrote: »

Tullamore is fair bad!

Oh please, Tullamore is about as rough a quilted toilet paper, grew up not very far away from there (but far enough away that i dont know every native of the town) spent my youth in the harriers, and then the Bridge, ALWAYS feel safe in Tullamore, know a few people from the "roughest" areas of the town and its harmless, if you want to mention somewhere from Offaly, how about Edenderry, Clara or even Kilcormac??? They not on the same scale of some places i have lived like Tipp town!!!! such a high concentration of scum!!! at least in Limerick is it somehow diluted by the "normal" people!!!!

villager

have only been to kilrush a couple of times but found it rough as ~@&*. full of skangers, scumbags and of course our ethnic minority friends. mate of mine worked there for 3 years and could not wait to get out

grenache

D-A-V-E wrote: »

what do you think the toughest town in Ireland is? one of those places wher you just try avoiding at all times..ie loud tunes blaring out of the 'locals' cars etc..crime through the roof..anti social behaviour etc...i think rathkeale is atrocious! highest percentace of itinerents in the country..most intimidating place iv been to..crazy drivers..crazy looking ppl, place looks abandoned and delapitated..scary out!

I not from Rathkeale but i did go to school there. I can't believe you actually think its a rough town! People who've never even been in the town have this idea in their head as Rathkeale being dog rough, in the same way that some folk think everyone in Limerick carries a knife around with them! :rolleyes: If you'd spent any sustained period of time in
Rathkeale you'd know thats it not at all rough. Run down, yes, but not rough. Sure half the town is travellers, but that does not automatically make it rough. The travellers keep to themselves, there is little or no trouble between them and the settled community living there. There are no large housing estates in Rathkeale, so there's never been any great scumbag element, in fact Rathkeale per capita has one of the lowest crime levels in the country. I'd happily walk through it any time of the day or night.

Contrast this to Newcastle West which is gone to the dogs and is ten times rougher than Rathkeale. In my 24 years, i've never experienced any hassle or trouble in Rathkeale, yet i've nearly been assaulted twice in Newcastle, and have seen numerous fights.

Mc Love

Nenagh on a saturday night can be rough with all the farmers looking for fights

TheLoc

Yea I agree with greenache. I've been to rathkeale to this little restaurant/pub place. one of the nicest restaurants I have ever been in and food was unbelievably nice. Travellers were eating with other locals in there and getting on fine. The place might be a bit run down but fairly friendly. I think the bad things that have happened in rathkeale are people from Limerick city and patrickswell robbing the place. Although I heard of a guy that went to school with me going to rathkeale to get a shot gun. wether or not thats true I don't know. But rathkeale seems fine to me.

TheLoc

everywhere on a saturday night is like that. even the energisers out in raheen haha

mikemac

Tipp town is the worst town I know

tantipie

TheLoc wrote: »

Drogheda, dundalk and tipp town are the worst i've seen. I know Newcastle west can be but not as bad as everyone making out. just stay away from whispers night club haha. Tipp town and newport are awful scum holes

i duno what tipp town is like,,but i go out in newport every 3 or 4 weeks for 2 yrs now and have yet to see any fights,,it's by no means a scum hole,,

mud

:An Fhile"That's a very general statement. When you compare the amount of attention urban attacks get in the media to the minute news-worthiness of small villages, it seems to negate your argument.[/QUOTE]

I'm afraid you're gonna have to clarify your argument for me? I made an observation stating that in my opinion smaller towns are worse sh1tholes than cities, probably because there isn't a garda presence, what's your point?