What is the most depressing looking town in Ireland?

wexfordman2

New Ross, bad enough bekfre the boom, and they took every opportunity they could to fnk it up even more during.

wexfordman2

Buddy Holly wrote: »

Ballinrobe, co. Mayo.

There isn't anyone below the age of 40 left in the town.

That's a positive :-)

wexfordman2

anto9 wrote: »

Nobody mentioned Enniscorthy yet .Somebody mentioned Rosslare which at least is by a beautiful beach .

Jesus, I thought enniscorthy was a nice spot although I've only ever passed through it.

Rosslare used to be nice but overdone in the boom.

Merrion

Bray

EazyD

Samsgirl wrote: »

It's a city

And not a very good one at that.

callaway92

foggy_lad wrote: »

Starting with Waterford an awful sh1tbox of a place and the people are as bad as the blaaaa. Moving on to clonmel via Carrick on sewer and further to cahir and tipp town and finishing the journey of misery in the daddy of gloom limerick.

Fack off

Louthdrog

Drogheda.

I've emigrated from it but every time I come home it gets more and more depressing looking.

anto9

^Its the accent of Drogheda and Navan people i dont like .

For Forks Sake

Tipp town could be levelled in the morning and no-one would notice, or care.

Portarlington looks like something from Communist-era Yugoslavia. It's natural gene pool of feral rednecks has been diluted by Dubs who thought they were buying 'cheap houses' during the boom.

Ballyhaunis, techincally in Mayo, though neither they nor Roscommon want to claim ownership of it, looks like someone pressed pause sometime in 1976. Not just on the look of the place, but also on the surfacing of roads, and general mindset of everyone in the place. See also Castlerea.

New Ross cannot be bypassed quickly enough. Any town where the main pastime of its populace is hitting each other over the head with rocks and endeavouring to invent fire is not for me. Also, does anyone have any statistics to back up my theory that New Ross has more redheads than anywhere else in the country?

Balbriggan. No explanation needed.

Amprodude

Tralee and Ardfert in Kerry two more dives.

GarIT

Longford town is fairly bad but nothing compares to Waterford. Waterford is the most run down place I have ever been their 'historical sites' are an embarrassment but the thing that really seals the deal is the people. The people of Waterford ensure that no new businesses come to the area and then claim the government is conspiring against them. Waterford residents have protested places like new look and H&M coming to the town because 'we already have xyz's lady's fashion shop and H&M would put her out of business' well xyz hasn't seen fashion since 1970 and refuses anything shorter than ankle length or jeans because that is sinful. These people have also protested against every supermarket because they are putting local shops out of business and complain about how they have no jobs. Before people call Waterford a city, 1 it's population isn't large enough and 2 they don't have a university, you might claim there is a uni but there isn't, every year WIT applies to be a uni, and every year they are told no.

What proves my point about Waterford's people is that it was the only place really defended here and one of it's residents actually said feck.

efb

realies wrote: »

Since when did ballyfermot become a town ?

What is it if it isn't a town? Its as big as over half the places mentioned here.

But Its stuck in 1975 or something it looks so grim- and the Bingo hall being the centre of attraction. All the bashed up shutters covered in graffiti and the urchins walking by- It was the only town I didn't feel safe in.

efb

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Tipp town could be levelled in the morning and no-one would notice, or care.

Portarlington looks like something from Communist-era Yugoslavia. It's natural gene pool of feral rednecks has been diluted by Dubs who thought they were buying 'cheap houses' during the boom.

Ballyhaunis, techincally in Mayo, though neither they nor Roscommon want to claim ownership of it, looks like someone pressed pause sometime in 1976. Not just on the look of the place, but also on the surfacing of roads, and general mindset of everyone in the place. See also Castlerea.

New Ross cannot be bypassed quickly enough. Any town where the main pastime of its populace is hitting each other over the head with rocks and endeavouring to invent fire is not for me. Also, does anyone have any statistics to back up my theory that New Ross has more redheads than anywhere else in the country?

Balbriggan. No explanation needed.

Scobey dubs too- I preferred it before the dubs arrived

For Forks Sake

efb wrote: »

Scobey dubs too- I preferred it before the dubs arrived

That was my point, should probably have phrased it better. In the next fifteen years that town is going to be like the alternate universe in Back To The Future where Biff owned the town after winning all the money on sports.

DakarVert

Castletownbere...

Most shops are like going back in time, Quare smell of fish around the place. It's the most boring/depressing town I'v been in.

stateofflux

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Ballinasloe is a long town of misery. Toothless idiots huddled in pub doors smoking cigarettes; overweight teenage mothers shoving buggies around, and the association the town has with its mental hospital. "He's down in Ballinasloe as he's suffering with his nerves".

jaysus :eek:

bonerjams03

Edgeworthstown - drove through it once and couldn't believe how grim it was. Hopped out of the car for a piss then and actually tried to hurry along as the atmosphere was so crushing.

bonerjams03

DakarVert wrote: »

Castletownbere...

Most shops are like going back in time, Quare smell of fish around the place. It's the most boring/depressing town I'v been in.

Go way out of that.

JaimeLannister

Strokestown?

Mr_Spaceman

jaffusmax wrote: »

Lurgan NI

A desperate kip altogether.

Deadzone

Swinford, Mayo. Pikeys paradise, even beats Longford in the double parking, f**k you I'm not walking, shame I can't park in the lobby of Tesco's stakes...

stateofflux

JaimeLannister wrote: »

Strokestown?

full of ****

SimonTemplar

John Doe1 wrote: »

I was travelling through Tipperary on my way to Kilkenny and passed a place called Clogheen which made me think i was in a time warp.

Likewise Ballineen, Co. Cork

Closer to my homeplace, Strabane never fails to make my eyes bleed. :P

Clogheen may not be the most cosmopolitan of places, but imagine having this view outside your living room window...https://www.google.com/maps/@52.275178,-7.994713,3a,75y,178.55h,88.39t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1zHQbJn7XUbNy4aVLFr45A!2e0?hl=en

gw80

GarIT wrote: »

Longford town is fairly bad but nothing compares to Waterford. Waterford is the most run down place I have ever been their 'historical sites' are an embarrassment but the thing that really seals the deal is the people. The people of Waterford ensure that no new businesses come to the area and then claim the government is conspiring against them. Waterford residents have protested places like new look and H&M coming to the town because 'we already have xyz's lady's fashion shop and H&M would put her out of business' well xyz hasn't seen fashion since 1970 and refuses anything shorter than ankle length or jeans because that is sinful. These people have also protested against every supermarket because they are putting local shops out of business and complain about how they have no jobs. Before people call Waterford a city, 1 it's population isn't large enough and 2 they don't have a university, you might claim there is a uni but there isn't, every year WIT applies to be a uni, and every year they are told no.

What proves my point about Waterford's people is that it was the only place really defended here and one of it's residents actually said feck.

Look up brendan mcCann, that will explain a lot to ya,

Mister Jingles

Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny

catonthewire

Bray....

TwoShedsJackson

Mohill, Co. Leitrim. There's a very 'local place for local people' vibe off the whole town and it doesn't have a single pub that you'd feel happy about going into. Traveller encampment on the outskirts seals the deal.

Daveysil15

stateofflux wrote: »

full of ****

Willie stroker lives there.

Don't Chute!

Castledermot

sharpey85

Callan, kilkenny.

My father is from there but I try to limit myself to going only once every 4 years!!

Great when I was a child but as I got older I couldn't stand the place