If you had to nuke an Irish town ...

IvaBigWun

.... which would you pick? Off the map, raised to the ground, surplus to any requirement, gone, nothing to see here folks.

Id have to go with Navan. Horrible to look at and the women all look like Shrek,

TeletextPear

athlone - worst few hours of my life when i was there

mental07

IvaBigWun wrote: »

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Id have to go with Navan.

Ha, I was thinking the same thing as i was opening the thread. I know a couple of decent people from there though, so I'd ensure that they were far away before committing the act :P

Sherifu

Drogheda.

Baggly

Muff in Donegal. It (the comedy) writes itself....

Beau x1

*waits for someone to mention Bray*

Baggly

Bray is more of a hole than a town

mike65

Newcastle West in with a shout for me.

Mike.

Jemmy

Enniskerry or greystones! :pac:

Kiera

Balbriggan.

Mossy Monk

Youghal

qz

Dundalk :pac:

Epic Tissue

Dublin ..

Dudess

Mitchelstown

Abi

Sherifu wrote: »

Drogheda.

Theres nothing wrong with the town.

Sherifu

Abigayle wrote: »

Theres nothing wrong right with the town.

FYP.

qz

Epic Tissue wrote: »

Dublin ..

That's a city, you lose.

thelordofcheese

Epic Tissue wrote: »

Dublin ..

twice.

IvaBigWun

Now with new added sexy poll-ness.

jcrowbar

Where i am right now, but i don't think it'd make much of a difference.

Beanstalk

Has to be Newcastle West. That place is so depressing. It's where they bottle Ballygowan which, coincedentally, has an open sewer running behind the building.

It also used to have the L&N supermarket, God I hated going there with my parents when we were visiting the grandparents. All the closed factories and stuff...so depressing....

Clare Bear

Pity Galway isn't a town :rolleyes:

I picked Drogheda...the accent alone and the higher than average number of scobes puts me off the town unfortunately.

Stevecw

Has to be the kip that is Athy. Horrible excuse for a town.

Jimbo

Bandon

Amazotheamazing

Whatever about Newcastle West, it's neighbouring town Abbeyfeale deserves to be burnt to the ground. God, my heart sinks a little every time i drive through it. Never found Newcastle all that bad, but I've never stopped for a look around. Don't know why Kilmallock is on the list, it's just a regular small village, hardly up there with the worst of them.

BendiBus

I'd vote for Ardee but I think it's been nuked already.

galwayrush

I think Tuam's been nuked already, strange people the survivors

Caoimhín

Navan.

And i live here.

kowloon

Kiera wrote: »

Balbriggan.

Where do you hai from? I find you can't truly hate the place until you've lived there.

stepbar

Longford TBH

Agamemnon

From that list, Athlone would be vastly improved by becoming a beautiful mushroom cloud. But Dungarvan, Co. Waterford needs it more, or at least a good chemical weapons attack.

jigglywoo

Mullingar :mad:

CPT. SURF

Ballyraggit, Co. Kilkenny. I dare anyone to go there.

Either that or Durrow, Co. Laois. Absolute kip of the highest order.

Trippie

I know its not in Ireland but just back from blackpool and if ever a place had to be levelled then this is it.

BlackWizard

Dublin, so that we can build the place properly this time.

Karoma

Kilmallock or "Anythwere in Limerick". Tough choices.
If we're talking a 'smart bomb', then I'd choose Dublin. Leave everything in tact, just remove the people. Bliss.
Otherwise, Sligo. Goodbye Áine.

rossie1977

blackpool wtf?? great beach, world class theme park, similiar accommodation for 1/4 the price of dublin and fine nightlife, much cheaper beer than back home too

blackpool certainly ain't the best place i have ever been but its a great laugh for a weekend break in the middle of summer, too many auld ones on the pull though

Trippie whats your opinion of a decent town i would like to know :eek:

Duff

Drawwda without a doubt.

shane86

TeletextPear wrote: »

athlone - worst few hours of my life when i was there

Indeed. The phrase town pride doesnt resonate there, every Athlone person Ive ever met hates it even more than people who have had the misfortune to pass through it. All I remember from the railway line is an extremely large abandoned building, a good few seemingly derelict old council houses and a halting site or two.

Recall once at a party a mate of mine crashing and burning trying to impress a lethal looking yoke from there (was the spit of Cheryl from Girls Aloud. x 20 jizzillion ). Went along the lines of

"Ah Athlone yeah, only passed through it. Looks a lovely spot, Ill hafta stall down sometime"
"Lovely? Its a ****ing kip!"

Cue two minutes of ranting about the exact grade and calibre of kip the town is.


Am I alone in voting Galway? An overrated permanently wet windy tourist trap whos only purpose is to bleed out of towners of their dosh and to con European tourists into believing it is some sort of alternative bohemian cultural mecca full of artists, street performers, musicians and general beardy hipster troubadours who go where the winds take them. Cromwell was right, Id sooner go to hell.

And how many Supermacs does the town and area around have? I wouldnt be surprised to see one poking out the back of someones back garden.

And tbh the weather during a Galway nuclear winter is bound to be better than that during a normal Galway summer.

LOTP wrote: »

Bray is more of a hole than a town

Ah stop. Bray is great for an all day outdoor session if the weather is agreeable.

BroomBurner

Has to be Longford Town, for their inability to park.

Oh, and Kildare Town, for being total muck.

shane86

Also had the pleasure of visiting Manorhamilton Co Leitrim some years ago. On a wet day it looks like the set of Angelas Ashes. As does Loughrea outside Galway.

Granard Co Longford is another horror show.

Dundalk seems to be a small village that was suddenly surrounded by acres of pretty rough looking housing estates.

guinnessdrinker

Sorry but I'm gonna say Longford.

COH

Tralee

Green Hornet

Not on the poll but Arklow. Lived there for 10 years. What a depressing town.:(

rossie1977

shane86 wrote: »

And tbh the weather during a Galway nuclear winter is bound to be better than that during a normal Galway summer.

it was over 20 degrees today in galway and sunny, forecast 24 tomorrow and sunny, dublin is forecast rain you were in galway once, it rained get over it :P if you think galway is wet and windy (it ain't) try bundoran in co donegal on for size :eek:

shane86 wrote:

Indeed. The phrase town pride doesnt resonate there, every Athlone person Ive ever met hates it even more than people who have had the misfortune to pass through it. All I remember from the railway line is an extremely large abandoned building, a good few seemingly derelict old council houses and a halting site or two.

because no other town in ireland has a derelict housing estate or two, certainly not dublin :rolleyes: that housing estate is either battery heights or st mels, yes they both suck and they suck bad but seriously athlone on a saturday night is a fine town. two very good shopping centres in the middle of town and some lovely scenery close by, go boating on lough ree to see what i mean.

Tabnabs

Cork "city" (yeah right), the whole country would breath a collective sigh of relief.

Gran Hermano

Has to be Cork - maybe it'll put an end to their 'rebellion'.

sharkDawg

Athlone and its heroin addicts.....kaboom

Stevecw

BroomBurner wrote: »

Oh, and Kildare Town, for being total muck.

Jesus yes that is a serious nothing town. I forgot about there while nominating Athy earlier. Kildare town runs its very close.

Just realised both of my towns to avoid are in Kildare, i actually like that county. Naas & Newbridge are grand & i played for a football team in Castledermot for years. So nothing against Kildare in general, but Athy & Kildare town are horrible places.

Benny-c

Had the 'pleasure' to spend 1.5years in Castlebar, Co. Mayo.

Castlebar.................kaBOOM:D

KnifeWRENCH

Bye Bye Fermoy - ye won't be such a "tidy town" anymore!

EDIT: Oh and Doneraile. Nice park and nice wildlife, but the people from there I've come across are either total scumbags or just irritating twats.