Carrick-on-Suir

Mr Tim Buktoo

can anyone tell me whats carrick on suir like to live in? i heard it has a bad reputation? im going to be moving down that way so just wondering!
also if anyone has a room to rent il take it!

Ponster

Carrick...Not the first place in the world I'd choose to live to be honest.

Some people will come along to defend it maybe but it remains one of the most depressed towns in Ireland as regards employment; I often feel like the Celtic Tiger gave Carrick a miss.

Sites like this paint a bad picture of the place but I find that the people who live there can often be the greatest in the world just waiting to catch a break in life.

looder

it's like any town really, there's some good people and some bad people.

To be honest, theres **** all to do only go out at weekends, no cinema, no pool hall, no bowling, nothing really. you have to drive 25 mins to clonmel, or waterford to actually do something thats not alcohol related.

Pigletlover

It doesn't have the best reputation, but if you're going to be moving there just go there with an open mind and decide for yourself. Sometimes places aren't half as bad as people make them out to be.

samanthacarter

I live in Carrick but I found since having kids. I would much prefer to live somewhere else as the playground is a disgrace, it is dirty, I don't bring my kids there anymore, I go to Clonmel, Moincoin or Waterford for playground, childminders in Carrick are a joke (they either charge you a bomb or let you down at the last moment), luckily a few creches/afterschool care have opened last year, I wasn't impressed with any of the primary schools either. Apart the kids side, I did not mind before living in Carrick

0utpost31

Carrick is a dump. There's no bookshop in the whole town. Wtf?? There's a library, but it's not exactly up to date.

There's no lads clothes shop.

The one nightclub in town is a joke. And there's nothing else to do other than drink or take up some sort of hobby. Well I suppose you could go for a walk around the park, but that only takes 4minutes and then you're back to boredom.

There's a nickname for this town you know - Carrick-on-Sewer. I like to call it Carrick-on-shyte.

Move to waterford instead!

tippspur

0utpost31 wrote: »

Carrick is a dump. There's no bookshop in the whole town. Wtf?? There's a library, but it's not exactly up to date.

There's no lads clothes shop.

The one nightclub in town is a joke. And there's nothing else to do other than drink or take up some sort of hobby. Well I suppose you could go for a walk around the park, but that only takes 4minutes and then you're back to boredom.

There's a nickname for this town you know - Carrick-on-Sewer. I like to call it Carrick-on-shyte.

Move to waterford instead!

Your talking a load of ****e imo, It's people that make a town and you wont meet better people than the carrick crowd.mr tim you will have a great time there, let us know how you get on.

Anon0000

tippspur wrote: »

Your talking a load of ****e imo, It's people that make a town and you wont meet better people than the carrick crowd.mr tim you will have a great time there, let us know how you get on.

Totally agree with tippspur on this. lived in carrick for 21 years then moved to bright lights of waterford-now in the clubs here.
When tippspur says 'its the people that make a town' i couldnt agree agree more-look at the support shown as a town for the carrick utd team during their amazing run this year for example-made me proud to be from carrick!
Someone else says oh yeah move to waterford-trust me i live here and its the biggest scumhole there is. Its full of nothing but people who are walking opinions of themselves.
As for the one nightclub in the town-its a small town wat do you expect-its not a city. I have worked there for 2 years and wouldnt come across a nicer bunch of people. I have a funny feeling tippspur works here aswell and used to be my boss lol.
No clothes shops for men- eh what kinda business does Bourkes and Outfield Sports do???!!!!!
True we might not have the best facilities for a town this size but we're kinda like iarnrod eireann up this way-we're not there yet but we're getting there lol.

"No Bookshop", "And there's nothing else to do other than drink or take up some sort of hobby."................
................ Seriously Outpost31 you would want to get up off your backside and stop making out that taking up a hobby is a bad thing and actually take a look around the town for yourself before you go tarring it!
In my opinion its more laziness on your part.
Look at the sporting teams carrick has to offer- 2 top soccer teams, 3 top hurling teams, numerous clubs for boxing and martial arts, Cycling clubs- you name it we probably have it,not the same effects as books is it ya ponce lol. Get up of your backside and get a life!!!!!!!
As looder says " it's like any town really, there's some good people and some bad people. " - True there is a few people that give us a bad name but in fairness look at Waterford - Travellers getting away with bloody murder down there, ramming each others cars on the busiest street in the city on a saturday nite, stabbings left right and centre, petrol bombong of houses - its crazy down there! I think this kind of sums up the type of people in Waterford:
"jaysus i dont like your hat boi"..................... Thats a beating
"Whats your lack looking at me like that for eh boi"............Oh you better believe thats a beating
"I just passed me leaving cert".................Lucky to get away with your life with that one lol
Just to sum it up for you Outpost31- Look at your own hometown/City before you pass judgement on another place after all if theres any place that would be worse than Carrick-on-Suir its Waterford City!!!!!!!!

tippspur

Well said Anon0000,what you say all very true imo.by the way i am not originally from carrick (about 7 miles up the clonmel road) and i def was never your boss,:)but me and the wife lived in the town for eight years during the 80s and made a lot of friends there which we still have to this day,I also played for carrick utd for all of those eight years and was in the middle of that carrick crowd in the RSC when they won the fai jun cup. need i say we had great night in carrick that night.

0utpost31

Eh lads I lived in carrick for 9 years so calm down. I may even know ye folks. And why attack me? What about the other posters talking shyte about carrick?

theres **** all to do only go out at weekends

Look at that!!!

the Celtic Tiger gave Carrick a miss.

and that!!!

what about..

Carrick...Not the first place in the world I'd choose to live

Don't forget...

you have to drive 25 mins to clonmel or waterford to actually do something thats not alcohol related.

and

I would much prefer to live somewhere else

I didn't say any of that!!!!


Anyways, as I said, lived there for 9 years, went to 2ndary school there (cbs) it was a useless school. The Tech is better but not by much. I think a few teachers actually left the CBS to join the Tech!

Ok maybe I focused on the bad points. That bookshop thing pisses me off though because the one book I ever wanted to buy the day it was released couldn't be found in all of carrick. Because there was no bookshop. And it's a famous book. The no bookshop thing just struck a chord with me and I ain't a bookworm ponce by the way. I do do karate by the way but not in carrick and I can chop a book in half with my bare toe.

Sports in carrick wasn't the greatest for me either. I liked hurling and soccer but never joined any clubs, I was into skating and bmxing and wherever I found a good spot to practice there were about 50 scumbags throwing rocks and bottles and punches. The one time I fought back I got 20 people laying kicks into me on the ground and broke my finger while protecting my head from kicks. It's the poeple that make the town eh? I know you might say that this could happen anywhere but I'm talking about carrick right now.

Ye forgot to mention the theatre in carrick in the list of stuff to do. And golf. Theres a new gym down the quay as well. The town should have a cinema though.

ilovelove

Outpost I dont think theres anything wrong with what you said, when you live somewhere for 9 years you can make up your own mind on the place as Im sure you would know it better than most. Keep the posts coming by the way, they always give me a laugh!:pac:

0utpost31

About the clothes shops for lads thing.

Bourkes is for old men and country folk that come from the mountains and rathgormack of a saturday to do a bit of shopping. I've had confirmation from other carrick lads that Bourkes is in fact useless and they would go to waterford or clonmel for clothes. These are born and bred carrick heads by the way.

There was only one guy that actually defended carrick today but he was from little Faugheen so it doesn't count. He has to come from faugheen to Carrick to get stuff done like banking and shopping etc. so carrick is like New York City for him.

Anon0000 wrote: »

True we might not have the best facilities for a town this size but we're kinda like iarnrod eireann up this way-we're not there yet but we're getting there lol.

Doesn't look like we'll ever get there but it's a good town slogan nonetheless.

By the way my friend worked in the council and she told me that carrick is grouped with some other Irish towns into what was essentially a crap town section on the government database. These towns are flagged for much needed extra funding. Tipperary town is in the same section and a few others I can't remember.

Oh yeah I suppose I better balance this out with a good aspect of Carrick just to be fair: It has a college! Did you know that? Yes, computer classes are held in the park hotel! Imagine being in class and some auld lad walks thru like "ah jaysis i was just havin a pint in the bar there, where's the bog i've ta take an auld shyte".

Not sure if they do classes there anymore but my friend attended them a year or two ago.

Now I'm going to pack my bags and run away from carrick to waterford. Anon0000 do you know of any rooms to rent? Can I crash in your house while I look?

Ponster

0utpost31 wrote: »

Doesn't look like we'll ever get there but it's a good town slogan nonetheless.

The problem is that since the Tannery closed down there hasn't been anything else remotely like an industry in town, just like a mining town from Nothern England in the 1980's.

I'm from the Ballypatrick-Kilsheelan part of the world for those who know; went to the CBS as a teenager. Carrick is a depressing place. You can defend it as much as you like and I imagine that if you like there then you have the right to do so against people who aren't from there slagging off your town. But in the end of the day it is lacking in a lot of things (except pubs). Without steady employment on a large scale the town is going to remain 'depressed'.

tippspur

A small town is a small town, I mean what the fcuk do you expect. ten bookshops a dozen clothes shops, a dozen restaurants or whatever.if thats what you want go live in waterford or dublin,jaysus everyone knows carrick was left behind when it came to jobs, you didnt have to do a survey of carrick friends to find that out.It's just as well outpost31 doesn't live in ballypatrick or kilsheelan or he would have died of boredom by now.you cant buy a book in these places either.:P

xbox36016

move to cahir co.tipp area

Ponster

tippspur wrote: »

A small town is a small town, I mean what the fcuk do you expect. ten bookshops a dozen clothes shops, a dozen restaurants or whatever.

One of each would do for a start

There are a lot of small towns in Ireland that have restaurants, book shops and such. You don't have to go to Dublin to find these things.

0utpost31

tippspur wrote: »

A small town is a small town, I mean what the fcuk do you expect. ten bookshops a dozen clothes shops, a dozen restaurants or whatever.

Bejaysus will ya calm down! Actually are there any restaurants that aren't chinese in carrick?

tippspur wrote: »

It's just as well outpost31 doesn't live in ballypatrick or kilsheelan or he would have died of boredom by now.you cant buy a book in these places either.:P

Oh jaysus don't get me started about Kilsheelan.:pac: A village with no shops - can you believe that?!!

Only risin' ya.... kilsheelan's grand, shur tis only a village I don't expect much. It actually has more than you'd expect -

3 shops,

4 pubs,

a GAA pitch,

school,

a new shoping kind of center almost complete,

a big tree,

a garda station,

petrol station,

car sales,

hairdresser

post office/aib banking

horse stud

chipper (those turkish guys do a savage half-pounder).

And that's only a village. Not a commercial center.

But with a town of 6000 people at least one of them should want a book or a daycent set of casual clothes. My friend got his debs outfit in bourkes and the suit was supposed to be black but the top and bottom were different shades of greyish browny black.

tippspur

jayus you know more about Kilsheelan than carrick,:),O Callachauns (dats prob spelt wrong )is a great place for the grub in carrick.by the way i see that a girl of 16 got shot in waterford the other night, i hope the starter of this thread doesn't take your advice and move there cos if he does he might have to buy a bulletproof vest with all the shootin thats going on there lately..I wonder if burkes sell bulletproof vests ? probably get the wrong shade anyway.;)

josh59

tippspur wrote: »

jayus you know more about Kilsheelan than carrick,:),O Callachauns (dats prob spelt wrong )is a great place for the grub in carrick.by the way i see that a girl of 16 got shot in waterford the other night, i hope the starter of this thread doesn't take your advice and move there cos if he does he might have to buy a bulletproof vest with all the shootin thats going on there lately..I wonder if burkes sell bulletproof vests ? probably get the wrong shade anyway.;)

O'Ceallachains is a good spot for porter and grub as well - any of us originally from Carrick can probably remember when the only and I mean only place in town to get something to eat during the day was the Comeragh - hang sandwiches and oxtail soup. Pikes who ran the original Besborough Arms (before the Weekes bought it) used to serve food as well but only at meal times. Other than that your only choices were Tinvane hotel or some of the chippers - Mary Heffernans at the Westgate being one:(

Ponster

josh59 wrote: »

Mary Heffernans at the Westgate being one:(

£1 for a bag of chips, sausage and can of coke in 1987

I used get there early when the lard was still melting in the fryers...

tippspur

Jayses Mary Heffernans, had forgotten all about that place,brings back memories of weekends on the piss in carrick and heading to marys for grub afterwards..:p

josh59

tippspur wrote: »

Jayses Mary Heffernans, had forgotten all about that place,brings back memories of weekends on the piss in carrick and heading to marys for grub afterwards..:p

And the chips were fried in lard - she used to have boxes of Clover Meats Lard on the shelves over the fryer and of course everything was wrapped up in newspaper.

I think Ella Power opened a chipper in the same building many years later and Abrakababra are there now.

Ponster

They were mighty chips. lard and newspaper. I used fancy the daughter of the pub opposite (Kehoes?) so often found myself in the area

DT100

Did the daughter know?....More important...Did the father know..lol.Did you ever get a date?...or did you just increase the chippers profit?;)

tippspur

josh59 wrote: »

And the chips were fried in lard - she used to have boxes of Clover Meats Lard on the shelves over the fryer and of course everything was wrapped up in newspaper.

I think Ella Power opened a chipper in the same building many years later and Abrakababra are there now.

Yeah that's the place ok..surely ye lads must remember 'the death wagon' that used to park outside the swan club area at weekends, glad im still alive to tell the tale about it...God the stuff we used to eat after a feed of beer..:eek:

Ponster

Was the the same chipper that used to come to the tech/mon at lunchtimes ?

tippspur

Ponster wrote: »

Was the the same chipper that used to come to the tech/mon at lunchtimes ?

Probably was, and your alive to tell the tale aswell..:D

daisychain

Ye're all showing yeer age lads

"The wagon" is still going around town, dunno if it's the same one referred to above but it's fairly shook anyway. (Noel Drohan used to own it)

The food isn't too bad in it now, but it'll never beat Fats Quans

tippspur

daisychain wrote: »

Ye're all showing yeer age lads

"The wagon" is still going around town, dunno if it's the same one referred to above but it's fairly shook anyway. (Noel Drohan used to own it)

The food isn't too bad in it now, but it'll never beat Fats Quans

That wagon you're on about is not bad at all. but defo not 'the death wagon'..Fats used to do a great batter burger, ohh the grease...:P

Ponster

It 'used' to be the death wagon about 20 years ago

Does Fats do anything decent anymore? Spudballs?

I'm off home (Kilsheelan) in about 4 hours for the first time in about a year so a trip into town for chips will be happening !

daisychain

They do but they often run out of spudballs early on in the night due to unprecedented demand.
They only open 5pm to 10pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights now :eek:

Sunday night is usually when we want them, if we've had a heavy one the night before. There's no cure like a Fats cure

josh59

daisychain wrote: »

They do but they often run out of spudballs early on in the night due to unprecedented demand.
They only open 5pm to 10pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights now :eek:

Sunday night is usually when we want them, if we've had a heavy one the night before. There's no cure like a Fats cure

"Fats" is now run by Michael's (Quans) daughter Marion and hubby Bobby Sheehan - they tend not to open late at night these times - happy enough with the business they do before pub closing time I reckon. Used to see them doing a brisk trade around 9:30 to 10 on a Saturday night if I was back in town to see the mother and was heading for the Strand Bar for a few libations - now drink in O'Cealachains when I'm back in town and the ma lives over the bridge so no temptation to go for a feed as there's no chipper on my way home.:)

tippspur

Ponster wrote: »

It 'used' to be the death wagon about 20 years ago

Does Fats do anything decent anymore? Spudballs?

I'm off home (Kilsheelan) in about 4 hours for the first time in about a year so a trip into town for chips will be happening !

There's a fairly good chipper in kilsheelan now...:)

callaway92

It isnt called "Chipper" anymore is it?

tippspur

callaway92 wrote: »

It isnt called "Chipper" anymore is it?

No it's not, a previous owner had that very original name on the place,think it's called pizza bar now..

pretty-in-pink

0utpost31 wrote: »

Anyways, as I said, lived there for 9 years, went to 2ndary school there (cbs) it was a useless school. The Tech is better but not by much. I think a few teachers actually left the CBS to join the Tech!

Ponster wrote: »

I'm from the Ballypatrick-Kilsheelan part of the world for those who know; went to the CBS as a teenager. Carrick is a depressing place. You can defend it as much as you like and I imagine that if you like there then you have the right to do so against people who aren't from there slagging off your town. But in the end of the day it is lacking in a lot of things (except pubs). Without steady employment on a large scale the town is going to remain 'depressed'.

Ha ha ha, my dad probably taught both of you...:p

Carrick is a dive, and its gotten much much worse over he years...the stuff I hear about from my dad, and my nan (who lives outside carrick) is awful.

I will say that jacks chipper is lovely. Carrick is a town that is engorging itself. It has nothing going on, and no inclination to change that. All that said, my granddad loved walkng along the riverbank, and the staff at greenhill are by far the nicest of any nursing home staff I've ever met.

There are a few aspects of carrick that could make it good....but there is far to high a trashy scumbag population to get itoff the ground. Its not the worst place in Tipp, but its far from the best.

tippspur

P-I-P you have slagged off nearly every town in tipp on these threads except for Clonmel,jasus it must be a great place.or maybe your just a WUMMER,,,;):rolleyes:

matc66

I have a soft spot for Carrick but only because it is my home town. I realise that it has serious socioeconomic problems and has been in the doldrums for years.
I have seen little or no change in it over twenty years.
The only new developments in it like Lidel presumably contribute little to the economy of the town aside from the jobs provided, and I presume that wouldn't exactly be high paid jobs.

On the plus side because it has so little I reckon this recession will effect it very little!

pretty-in-pink

tippspur wrote: »

P-I-P you have slagged off nearly every town in tipp on these threads except for Clonmel,jasus it must be a great place.or maybe your just a WUMMER,,,;):rolleyes:

A wummer?

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ahthrough the magic of urban dictioanry, I found out what you meant. No, not one of those. Opinionated? Yup. A wummer? Nope.

I like my little home town, its not the best town, but it has good points. I certqainly appreciate it much much more now that I'm living in Dublin, I want to move back to home (or near it) Fethard, newcastle, kilshelan all are nice. Cashel is ok, I just think its quiet, and anything else I've heard about it is from someone whos word I doubt. Quiet is kinda what I want anyways. Its time to settle down and reproduce.

I'm sure every town is grand once you're from there. Carrick was much nicer years ago, but its not somewhere I'd go after dark, it is quite rough. Now the same can be said bout anywhere else its true.

tippspur

P-I-P what i meant by WUMMER was Wind Up Merchant,maybe you got a different meaning from urban dictionary...

pretty-in-pink

Yeah thats the definition that made the most sense that I got (it was there for wum) wummer was something totally crazy.

Anyways, no, I'm not one of those....

I briefly contemplated taking offense, but then decided not to. I just have a lot of opinions, I've to a lot of places or know people from a lt of places, around tipp.

josh59

matc66 wrote: »

I have a soft spot for Carrick but only because it is my home town. I realise that it has serious socioeconomic problems and has been in the doldrums for years.
I have seen little or no change in it over twenty years.
The only new developments in it like Lidel presumably contribute little to the economy of the town aside from the jobs provided, and I presume that wouldn't exactly be high paid jobs.

On the plus side because it has so little I reckon this recession will effect it very little!

My brother was home on hols for 3 weeks last month and was having a few pints with some of the lads in O'Cealachains the night before he went back. He reckoned he was hearing the same conversations that he heard when he first headed for Oz in the mid 1980's - doom and gloom etc. And he said talking to some of his old school mates etc many who have been away and come back all said that the Celtic Tiger missed Carrick. As a regular visitor home (and not as often as I'd like) I can only comment that having been a town with probably one of the highest number of pubs in Ireland it now has the highest number of bookies, haridressers/beauty salons and delicatessens whihc no doubt were all set up to gather in as much Celtic Tiger money as possibly - so what's going to happen now. To walk down Lough Street would depress you - a few businesses at the top - newsagent, Kevin Dalton, Sam McCauley etc but at the bottom end every other premies for sale or to let.

When the tannery finally coughed it's last in the 19080's, and then Schiesser on the Clonmel road and Knitech in the old Mercy on Greystone Street the soul of the town died and although a few odds and sods have replaced these industries nothing of note has stuck (remember Rexnord).

It's a pity and what does'nt help the commercial situation is the idiotic parking regulations in town - imagine having to pay 20 cents to park while you nip into Tony Clerys for a newspaper, all fo two minutes :(and the traffic doesn't help either - it took my mother 20 minutes to get accross the New Bridge from Carrick Beg on Monday.

When you look at other similar sized commuter towns - the one I know of is Trim in Co. Meath - the buzz around the place is noteworthy - something that is missing in Carrick

Ponster

As josh noted Carrick has lost a lot of industries over the past 30 years and very few have appeared to replace them.

Who's responsibility it this? National (IDA) or local government.

seanybiker

anon0000 what are you on about waterford is nowhere near as bad as you make out. Carrick is grand have family up there. Anyone from there probably know them lol

Shinjuku

Carrick is where all tumbleweed comes from.

josh59

Shinjuku wrote: »

Carrick is where all tumbleweed comes from.

Are you speaking from personal knowledge or like many are you one of the keepers of the generally biased attitude that permeates through Irish society towards natives of rural towns - this painting them all with the same brush ?:(

Shinjuku

I know carrick very very well.

seanybiker

I like Carrick. Me mother isfron a little village a few miles outside it. Faugheen. Have cousins living in Carrick, ther all fecking mental, not in a bad way like. They used to live in Ballylynch (think thats what its called), that used to be fun calling upto them, I know where they are now I just dont know the name of it, although I think one of em is still in Ballylynch. Anyone that knows carrick will porbably know me cousins

tippspur

I used to live in Ballylynch mesef,for a couple of years in late 80s...

Ponster

seanybiker wrote: »

I like Carrick. Me mother isfron a little village a few miles outside it. Faugheen.

Was drinking there last week

smilerf

well ive lived in carrick all my life(29 years)
it has good points and bads points.
there's feck all to do but if u have a car waterford is near
no cinema or decent bookshop(sorry tony)
great musical society and sports teams
90% of the people are very nice and good craic