Heading South

Red Hand

So what's the best place that AH'ers like when they head down South, Munster way? The people? Or, seeing as we have a multitude of mountains and hills, the scenery and landscape?

Where do ye go? West Cork? Kerry? Cork City?

Nothing like heading down south on a fine summer's day with a carton of strawberries at hand.

Xavi6

Kerry is your only man.

Avoid Cork like the plague.

Bob the Builder

Advice: Don't go there.
Sport is the only thing they're good at these days.

Zaph

How disappointing, I thought this was a thread about oral sex.

Terry

Christina Applegate's nether regions.

minidazzler

West Cork is Nice, I live in Cork City. Kerry is good but there are too many Kerry people. West Cork is full of English people if you like that sort.


Avoid Bantry though. ****e place!!!

Nichololas

My favourite part of Munster is the road leading back up to Dublin. <:mad:>

Orizio

Cork and Waterford are the best places to go.

Avoid Kerry and Xavi6 like the plague.

JupiterKid

West Cork and South Kerry have stunning scenery. Cork city is nice but not very receptive of Dubs, alas.

Waterford is also a good spot. A hidden gem is the coast road between Tramore and Dungarvan, called the Copper Coast. Some great, isolated little coves and beaches along this stretch.

KnifeWRENCH

Xavi6 wrote: »

Avoid Cork like the plague.

Ah now be fair - it totally depends what part of Cork - there are some really lovely towns in Cork (Skibereen, Bantry, Kinsale) and some absolute hellholes (don't go to Mitchelstown unless you're going to the caves. The town is scumbag central.)
The city is grand - yes there are scumbags but they're greatly out-numbered by non-scumbags.

Kerry has some beautiful scenery - Killarney's great, if you don't mind the fact it's full of tourists. Tralee is a bit dull.

If you're in Limerick, the city is pretty good, as long as you don't stray into the suburbs and if you want to shop, make sure to go to The Crescent. If you're looking for somewhere quieter, go to Adare. Very nice village.

Waterford city is ok, bit small. I wouldn't go to Dungarvan - has it's fair share of scum. I loved Tramore when I was a kid because of all the amusements, not sure what it's like now.

Tipp doesn't have much going for it tbh! (apologies to all Tipp people)

I went to Clare a lot when I was younger - there's some nice quiet spots dotted around the place by Lough Derg. And if you wanna do the whole touristy thing, thern there's The Burren, Ailwee Caves and the Cliffs of Moher.

tribulus

Cork City to visit my grandparents in Blackrock and tell them they've the weirdest Dublin accent I've ever heard.

Rowley Birkin QC

square_igloo wrote: »

(don't go to Mitchelstown unless you're going to the caves. The town is scumbag central.)

Ah now. I'm guessing you are of the Mallow scumbag variety? Or complete and absolute ****ing ******* bollox's as we like to call them.:p:p

KnifeWRENCH

bigkev49 wrote: »

Ah now. I'm guessing you are of the Mallow scumbag variety? Or complete and absolute ****ing ******* bollox's as we like to call them.:p:p

Lol, you guess correctly! (apart from the scumbag bit, of course )
I'm sure they are some lovely people in Mitchelstown, but all in all it has (in my very unbiased opinion) the largest population of scumbags per capita in Cork.
Being honest, Mallow isn't much better.

Btw I didn't think Mallow people hated Mitchelstown that much - I thought it was Fermoy we were supposed to hate! :P

Heisenberg.

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biko

Conor pass
Ring of Kerry

Professey Chin

square_igloo wrote: »

don't go to Mitchelstown unless you're going to the caves. The town is scumbag central

Good god man. Cut them a break.
THEY WERE RAISED ON CHEESE!!!!!:eek:

Smart Bug

Fuck the South.

Professey Chin

Smart Bug wrote: »

Fuck the South.

I normally do. 2 holes south, 1 hole north.2 better then 1

Earthhorse

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

So what's the best place that AH'ers like when they head down South, Munster way? The people? Or, seeing as we have a multitude of mountains and hills, the scenery and landscape?

I have an interest in history so seeing how people lived in olden times is always the highlight of the trip.

KnifeWRENCH

The Scientist wrote: »

If i'm not mistaken, aren't you from the Shanballymore area, the Medellín of north Cork?

You are mistaken (I actually don't know where Shanballymore is!! )
I'm from North Cork, about 11km outside Mallow.

Ultimate Chin wrote:

Good god man. Cut them a break.
THEY WERE RAISED ON CHEESE!!!!!

And their cheese isn't even that nice.
Kilmeaden is nicer!

Black Swan

I've traveled a bit, EU and Russia, Americas, Asia, but never to southern Ireland, although I have friends I could stay with in Cork and Kerry. I wonder why there are some of us that never see our own nearby land, but go everyplace else?

ejmaztec

There's always Bellybunion, the St Tropez of North Kerry. When you're there you can check the validity of the 70% 95% centrally obese theory.

Terry

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

I've traveled a bit, EU and Russia, Americas, Asia, but never to southern Ireland, although I have friends I could stay with in Cork and Kerry. I wonder why there are some of us that never see our own nearby land, but go everyplace else?

Because 'Ireland is a kip and I'm getting the **** out of here. I'm sick of the scumbags and the lack of jobs, so I'm going to <country> because it's awesome and my preconceived notions about the rest of the country are due to the fact that (A) I grew up in Dublin and everywhere else is full of boggers or (B) I live outside Dublin and everyone in the rest of the country is an ignorant hick and people from Dublin are scumbags.

I am of the impression that the rest of the world is a complete paradise and that crimes are only committed in Ireland even though i have never been outside Ireland. All because I have watched too much TV and never saw any crimes committed, except for murders in slums, which I will never visit.

Also, John from next door is getting on really well in <country> (secretly though John is living under a bridge in London, but his family won't tell you that).'

Black Swan

Terry...
Maybe it's not so much a dislike of other parts of Ireland, and a wanderlust attitude about all places outside Ireland being more attractive (although that may be true for some people)? OK, I've been across the pond for the past 3 years attending university, and Disneyland is less than 10 miles away from where I've lived, and I have never gone to the Anaheim-based Disneyland. But when I was visiting Florida awhile back, which caused me to travel thousands of miles to get there, I just had to visit Disneyworld. Do we sometimes take things nearby for granted?

Hogzy

Funny how half of the posts on this thread is a battle between corkonians and kerry...people

hopalong85

Terry wrote: »

Because 'Ireland is a kip and I'm getting the **** out of here. I'm sick of the scumbags and the lack of jobs, so I'm going to <country> because it's awesome and my preconceived notions about the rest of the country are due to the fact that (A) I grew up in Dublin and everywhere else is full of boggers or (B) I live outside Dublin and everyone in the rest of the country is an ignorant hick and people from Dublin are scumbags.

I am of the impression that the rest of the world is a complete paradise and that crimes are only committed in Ireland even though i have never been outside Ireland. All because I have watched too much TV and never saw any crimes committed, except for murders in slums, which I will never visit.

Also, John from next door is getting on really well in <country> (secretly though John is living under a bridge in London, but his family won't tell you that).'

arghhhhhhhh. how dare you like other countries more than ireland? it's blasphemy, blasphemy i tell you!

Orizio

Hogzy wrote: »

Funny how half of the posts on this thread is a battle between corkonians and kerry...people

So says a man who clearly doesn't have a Kerry sister in law.

Hogzy

Orizio wrote: »

So says a man who clearly doesn't have a Kerry sister in law.

HA! you got me there:D

IvySlayer

Connemara.

Orizio

Hogzy wrote: »

HA! you got me there:D

You can't comprehend my pain brother, you simply can't...:p