The Inverse Tidy Towns

Neon_Lights

A discussion on the biggest s***hole in Ireland.

Towns should be judged on:

Social Disengagement and Lack of Planning
Ugliness of streetscapes
Lack of landscapes and open spaces
Local wildlife - I.e. Social Pariahs of the area
Amount of litter
Unsustainable Living and Waste
Bad conditions of roads, and other public infrastructure

Harry Palmr

Dublin

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Teddington Cuddlesworth

Is this another thread dedicated to poking fun at Leitrim?

Neon_Lights

Teddington Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Is this another thread dedicated to poking fun at Leitrim?

No that's the Inverse rose of tralee

Rumpy Pumpy

Ballinasloe. A long string of misery of a place. Toothless simpletons standing in pub doors smoking fags in the middle of the day. Shops boarded up everywhere. The old mental hospital there is the most depressing and vaguely terrifying looking building in Ireland.

Red Kev

Longford has to be up there. What makes it worse is that it's a county town.

It doesn't even have a proper nightclub, just a late bar with music. It was always full of little shlts as well.

For Forks Sake

Tipperary town is, and always has been, the answer to this question.

A nuclear strike would only improve the place.

Mr McBoatface

Athy

RayM

Red Kev wrote: »

Longford has to be up there. What makes it worse is that it's a county town.

It has a beautiful cathedral though. So beautiful, in fact, that the locals all got together on Christmas Eve in 2009 and burned it down.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Buncrana. The people are clannish and introvert. The town is ugly and has nothing going for it. A few of the larger supermarket brands have applied for PP in the past to build large supermarkets but a select few local businesses objected because it would mean their shops would have competition and they couldn't charge their usual extortionate prices and so planning was denied. The town has nothing going for it and no one from outside it would ever have any reason to visit it. The local youths are like cavemen who attack outsiders for coming into their town and talking to their cave women.

In short it's a Grade A prize winning shít hole.

Harry Palmr

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Tipperary town is, and always has been, the answer to this question.

A nuclear strike would only improve the place.

It's nothing that a bypass wouldn't fix, then we'd not have to look at the locals as we crawl along the N24 down it's horridious main street.

Noddyholder

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Dublin

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Since when was Dublin a town

Noddyholder

Granard co Longford . Only for Pat the baker it be nothing.

Noddyholder

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Ballinasloe. A long string of misery of a place. Toothless simpletons standing in pub doors smoking fags in the middle of the day. Shops boarded up everywhere. The old mental hospital there is the most depressing and vaguely terrifying looking building in Ireland.

That describes an awful lot of towns in Ireland today unfortuanlly

osarusan

Noddyholder wrote: »

Since when was Dublin a town

Tis a dirty old town sure.

Moonbeam

I would have said Athy but it has improved alot .

Winterlong

Is Kinnegad still in existence?

Hitchens

Winner 2017 ...is this a town?

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Hitchens wrote: »

Winner 2017 ...is this a town?

Birdhill Co. Tipperary not a town or a village. It has a pub and a restaurant and that's it. I passed through it a couple of times on my way to Limerick and to be honest you would pass through it with a blink of an eye. It must be heart breaking for the bigger town's who spent time and money preparing for this competition and then loose out to such a small so called town the size of a doll house. I think Birdhill won it a couple of times.

the_pen_turner

I'm from around there and it has to be thurles.
its badly planned and laid out. nothing makes sense. if you can drive around thurles you can drive anywhere
everywhere is dirty. you could spend a year there with a team of power washers and workers
rubbish everywhere. the fas do great work , Cathleen and Dennis did everything they could to keep it some way right but to no avail
there are derelict buildings everywhere , some falling down.
look at the waste, Munster, Erin foods, brewery, old driving range, old cinema, even older cinema, Casey's yard, sugar factory, dwans, ice-cream factory etc
look at the road out side Erin foods,
look at the state of the footpaths

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

the_pen_turner wrote: »

I'm from around there and it has to be thurles.
its badly planned and laid out. nothing makes sense. if you can drive around thurles you can drive anywhere
everywhere is dirty. you could spend a year there with a team of power washers and workers
rubbish everywhere. the fas do great work , Cathleen and Dennis did everything they could to keep it some way right but to no avail
there are derelict buildings everywhere , some falling down.
look at the waste, Munster, Erin foods, brewery, old driving range, old cinema, even older cinema, Casey's yard, sugar factory, dwans, ice-cream factory etc
look at the road out side Erin foods,
look at the state of the footpaths

I'm not from Thurles so I can't comment on the town. What I can say is my town is just as bad with derelict buildings bad footpaths rubbish everywhere. When you have pubs and a nightclubs in a town it is virtually impossible to to keep the town clean especially at the weekend's after late night drinking. Maybe the local council's could introduce a litter warden to make sure our town's are kept clean and tidy. If people are caught throwing rubbish on the ground they should get a fine. This might make people take more notice of how lucky we are to have such beautiful town's and villages in Ireland. It would be great for tourism as well.

bennyineire

Poppy Round Gunpoint wrote: »

I'm not from Thurles so I can't comment on the town. What I can say is my town is just as bad with derelict buildings bad footpaths rubbish everywhere. When you have pubs and a nightclubs in a town it is virtually impossible to to keep the town clean especially at the weekend's after late night drinking. Maybe the local council's could introduce a litter warden to make sure our town's are kept clean and tidy. If people are caught throwing rubbish on the ground they should get a fine. This might make people take more notice of how lucky we are to have such beautiful town's and villages in Ireland. It would be great for tourism as well.

What Town are you from cause I'm pretty sure you have described at least 30 towns in Ireland

Donal55

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Ballinasloe. A long string of misery of a place. Toothless simpletons standing in pub doors smoking fags in the middle of the day. Shops boarded up everywhere. The old mental hospital there is the most depressing and vaguely terrifying looking building in Ireland.

Twinned with Tuam & Beirut.

Your Face

They messed up Galway City.

Roger Hassenforder

Newbridge.

Elegant swarthy models with smouldering "come hither" eyes languidly posing with a silver trinket belie the truth of the place and its wretched inhabitants...

Obese, pale, pimply, black rooted greasy bleached haired wretches, resplendent in saggy ars3d tracksuit pants and muffin tops and/or GAA jerseys, alighting from the latest "top of the range" pick-up truck, invariably double parked on yellow lines, fag in gob, pushing an equally vile looking 6 yr old sprog in a buggy, blocking access to run down yellow buildings bereft of a modicum of design, strewn in a shambolic edifice of how not to do urban.

What a kip.
Makes Mullingar the apogee of sophistication and contemporary elegance.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

bennyineire wrote: »

What Town are you from cause I'm pretty sure you have described at least 30 towns in Ireland

Nenagh

sligojoek

Poppy Round Gunpoint wrote: »

Nenagh

I hear there's war going on over the old feeding trough on Kenyon St?

brooke 2

Hitchens wrote: »

Winner 2017 ...is this a town?

It's been quite a few years since I drove through here - was wondering if they had built a town there since, when I heard this evening they had won the Tidy Towns 2017!

Capt'n Midnight

Roscrea.

Jobstown.

Neilstown.

Is Moyross a town ?

sligojoek

Ballyshannon is known colloquially as the Ballymun of Donegal.

Ken.

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Newbridge.

Elegant swarthy models with smouldering "come hither" eyes languidly posing with a silver trinket belie the truth of the place and its wretched inhabitants...

Obese, pale, pimply, black rooted greasy bleached haired wretches, resplendent in saggy ars3d tracksuit pants and muffin tops and/or GAA jerseys, alighting from the latest "top of the range" pick-up truck, invariably double parked on yellow lines, fag in gob, pushing an equally vile looking 6 yr old sprog in a buggy, blocking access to run down yellow buildings bereft of a modicum of design, strewn in a shambolic edifice of how not to do urban.

What a kip.
Makes Mullingar the apogee of sophistication and contemporary elegance.

Guess where I live Mr. Abouttobebannedfromah.

Jesus Wept

osarusan wrote: »

Tis a dirty old town sure.

Fun fact, that song isn't about Dublin.

Jawgap

Athlone.

Killarney......fab location ruined by sprawling, inappropriate architecturally questionable development, but they do keep it clean.

Castlebar......somewhere to dump all the sh1te so Westport can retain some semblance of class.

Dundalk......El Paso

Monaghan, Donegal, Killybegs......proof money can't buy you class and cousins marrying doesn't produce attractive kids.

Jim Bob Scratcher

Hitchens wrote: »

Winner 2017 ...is this a town?

What a load of BS

snowflaker

Ballyfermot

bennyineire

Poppy Round Gunpoint wrote: »

Nenagh

Wow it worse than I ever feared, you have my condolences

philstar

Birdhill isn't a town or a village but an area...albeit a tidy one

Jawgap

Jawgap wrote: »

Athlone.

Killarney......fab location ruined by sprawling, inappropriate architecturally questionable development, but they do keep it clean.

That's a bit harsh. Great town centre, completely revitalised since the 80s, fantastic open spaces around Killarney House, the Demesne and the National Park, the Cathedral across the road...I'd be hard pressed to think of a nicer amenity so close to a town centre anywhere. And the development hasn't sprawled out along the roads, it kinda stops near the roundabouts on the Tralee and Cork sides and the National Park hems it in on the Kenmare side. The areas that were rammed with houses like north of the Park Road are kinda off the main routes. There is one development I find a bit...utilitarian, on Countess Road.

Lollipops23

Dundalk.


I once spent several hours in Detroit bus station in the middle of the night. Dundalk is more depressing.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

sligojoek wrote: »

I hear there's war going on over the old feeding trough on Kenyon St?

I didn't hear anything about that.

Noveight

Shannon, Co.Clare. It's a handful of estates welded together with a half empty shopping centre in the middle.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Buncrana. The people are clannish and introvert. The town is ugly and has nothing going for it. A few of the larger supermarket brands have applied for PP in the past to build large supermarkets but a select few local businesses objected because it would mean their shops would have competition and they couldn't charge their usual extortionate prices and so planning was denied. The town has nothing going for it and no one from outside it would ever have any reason to visit it. The local youths are like cavemen who attack outsiders for coming into their town and talking to their cave women.

In short it's a Grade A prize winning shít hole.

I lived in Funcrana for 2 years. I agree about the clannish thing all right, if you aren't from Inishowen, you're dog sh1t to them. Even my GF at the time, who was from Donegal, was an outsider in Inishowen. A lot of them were still very sound people, but I was very aware I didn't 'belong'.

I never had any hassle from anyone up there though, and I thought the town was quite nice, even though the area was horrendously down on it's luck, work wise.

Jawgap wrote: »

Athlone.

Really? I am a bit biased, naturally, but it definitely isn't the worst, or anything like it. Most people who come to visit are surprised by how nice Athlone is.

fryup

Noveight wrote: »

Shannon, Co.Clare. It's a handful of estates welded together with a half empty shopping centre in the middle.

and its also the most one of the most depressing kips in ireland and the people are weird & stand offish

Neon_Lights

philstar wrote: »

Birdhill isn't a town or a village but an area...albeit a tidy one

Having lived near there its a fairly spread out village. Not one core urban area. Everyone seems to think that the area around Matt the thresher is the focal point, which probably is true but you also have the church further down the main road, and the primary school on the way out to Newport, you also have the quarry and soccer pitch heading up towards nenagh. I think it's probably a bit unfair as they do a good job near the focal point where most of the judging goes on and probably do not do as much due dillegence around the back roads or other areas.

Neon_Lights

fryup wrote: »

and its also the most one of the most depressing kips in ireland and the people are weird & stand offish

Its the Slough of limerick

Roger Hassenforder

Conspectus wrote: »

Guess where I live Mr. Abouttobebannedfromah.

my condolences!

Coffee Fulled Runner

Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon. Over 4 times the unemployment rate of the country, cheapest property value in Ireland, The main street has about 2 businesses. Full of social problems and ghost estates. I feel sorry for the refugees been sent to that dump.

sligojoek

Poppy Round Gunpoint wrote: »

I didn't hear anything about that.

I think the council demolished it to make the footpath wider and now some people were saying it was a protected structure.

I don't live there anymore. I just saw something about on a Nenagh friend's FB page.

mikemac2

Tipperary Town, the shame of the county.

We'd give it to Limerick if we could. Well Limerick city manage to dump some of their ne'er do well tenants here

Whenever Primetime was to do an episode on scum in estates bothering hard working taxpayers they come to Tipperary town

Hitchens

"they say that Naas is a terrible place,
Tralee is just as bad.
Longford town would get you down,
But fúck me ...Kinnegad!" :eek:

Ipso

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

I lived in Funcrana for 2 years. I agree about the clannish thing all right, if you aren't from Inishowen, you're dog sh1t to them. Even my GF at the time, who was from Donegal, was an outsider in Inishowen. A lot of them were still very sound people, but I was very aware I didn't 'belong'.

I never had any hassle from anyone up there though, and I thought the town was quite nice, even though the area was horrendously down on it's luck, work wise.



Really? I am a bit biased, naturally, but it definitely isn't the worst, or anything like it. Most people who come to visit are surprised by how nice Athlone is.

There's just something about the midlands I don't like, maybe it's because I grew up beside the sea.