Worst City in Ireland

buzzinfly83

Where do you consider the worst city in Ireland. Only interested in the officially listed cities not towns. I haven't been to all of them myself so I would be interested to hear peoples opinions.

me_irl

buzzinfly83 wrote: »

Where do you consider the worst city in Ireland. Only interested in the officially listed cities not towns. I haven't been to all of them myself so I would be interested to hear peoples opinions.

...and what about your own?

Roger Hassenforder

Fair City

jacksie66

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McMurphy

Lisburn is a kip of a place.

MilesMorales1

All of them.

Grab All Association

All have their problems with drugs, skangers, scumbags etc but I wouldn’t judge a whole city because of it. There’s not one single town in Ireland that doesn’t have these problems.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Here we go.... again!!

buzzinfly83

me_irl wrote: »

...and what about your own?

Sorry I should have said. I'm from Waterford. Good place to live overall, has it's problems like everywhere else but I'm happy enough living here. I like Dublin a lot but have never been to Galway(going to visit soon). Haven't spent enough time in Cork or Limerick to really have an opinion.

Ipso

I could count them all on one hand.

MilesMorales1

I mean its a pretty small list if its just cities and not towns. I only really know Dublin well having lived here going on 9 years, only visited the other big cities so its not really enough time to form an opinion.

padohaodha

Ipso wrote: »

I could count them all on one hand.

Fairly unusual hand if you've got ten fingers on it 😂

Jim Bob Scratcher

Ballydowse

Roger Hassenforder

well its not Cork boi.

lulu1

Grab All Association wrote: »

All have their problems with drugs, skangers, scumbags etc but I wouldn’t judge a whole city because of it. There’s not one single town in Ireland that doesn’t have these problems.

Don't mention town's OP only want's city's

Ipso

padohaodha wrote: »

Fairly unusual hand if you've got ten fingers on it ��

There are ten cities now. Have they added Dundaaalk and Atlohn or something?

buzzinfly83

Only interested in the cities. I've seen threads like this before but it's usually about a lot of the towns around the country so I was hoping to focus on cities. The reason I'm asking for the worst instead of the best is that I expected that people would just talk up their own city. Like to hear what people think based on experiences visiting or living in these cities.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

buzzinfly83 wrote: »

Only interested in the cities. I've seen threads like this before but it's usually about a lot of the towns around the country so I was hoping to focus on cities. The reason I'm asking for the worst instead of the best is that I expected that people would just talk up their own city. Like to hear what people think based on experiences visiting or living in these cities.

Your logic is strangely defective. You can't talk up your own city, so dish the others instead.

NollagShona

Lisburn

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

NollagShona wrote: »

Lisburn

Oh good! Can we include UK cities now too?

Fr_Dougal

Can’t really look past Waterford for crap cities.

The planning during the Celtic Tiger was disgraceful, they absolutely ruined the city. High rate of unemployment, it’s a bit of a hole tbf.

Ficheall

buzzinfly83 wrote: »

Sorry I should have said. I'm from Waterford. Good place to live overall, has it's problems like everywhere else but I'm happy enough living here. I like Dublin a lot but have never been to Galway(going to visit soon). Haven't spent enough time in Cork or Limerick to really have an opinion.

I have visited Waterford only once. It was December 5th, 2012, for one night only. The town had a nice river, and lovely Christmas lights. There was dogshit everywhere, and a local shop sold me an out-of-date carton of Tropicana.

MilesMorales1

Thatcher Glamorous Collie wrote: »

Oh good! Can we include UK cities now too?

Yeah **** Birmingham.

Vladimir Poontang

Maybe if we looked at it from the perspective of wasted potential it would spice things up....

salmocab

Ficheall wrote: »

I have visited Waterford only once. It was December 5th, 2012, for one night only. The town had a nice river, and lovely Christmas lights. There was dogshit everywhere, and a local shop sold me an out-of-date carton of Tropicana.

You should be writing for lonely planet

gw80

Ficheall wrote: »

I have visited Waterford only once. It was December 5th, 2012, for one night only. The town had a nice river, and lovely Christmas lights. There was dogshit everywhere, and a local shop sold me an out-of-date carton of Tropicana.

Haha, sucker, we saw ya coming.:)
We were trying to get rid of that tropicana for years, it was just a waiting game

Omackeral

lulu1 wrote: »

Don't mention town's OP only want's city's

I'm looking for apostrophes myself if you have any.

Omackeral

Thatcher Glamorous Collie wrote: »

Oh good! Can we include UK cities now too?

Londonderry

Ficheall

gw80 wrote: »

Haha, sucker, we saw ya coming.:)
We were trying to get rid of that tropicana for years, it was just a waiting game

How long were ye hoarding the dogshit for?

lulu1

Omackeral wrote: »

I'm looking for apostrophes myself if you have any.

I will get out the dictionary...............

Omg I nearly forgot the full stop will put in a few just to be sure.........

Omackeral

lulu1 wrote: »

I will get out the dictionary...............

Omg I nearly forgot the full stop will put in a few just to be sure.........

Thank's.

wakka12

I think its mean to call somebodys home **** the person may have lived there for their whole life and grew up there and be proud of the city, and besides everyone has different views of a city depending on what part of the city they live because of things like commute times, their age , if they like night life etc or maybe if they have a family the city is good or bad for that, or depending on your social class/wealth you could have a different view of a city . Its really really subjective imo..

Personally waterford wasn't to my taste, as in I generally don't enjoy being there. But my mother is from waterford and she said shed move back there from dublin in a heart beat if she hadn't settled with a family here, so there ya go. Everyones different

Mtx

Derry is unironically the best on the island

gmisk

Omackeral wrote: »

Londonderry

I think Derry is a great wee city, some great pubs and restaurants, people really sound as well.

padohaodha

Ipso wrote: »

There are ten cities now. Have they added Dundaaalk and Atlohn or something?

Count em.Dublin Cork Limerick Galway Waterford Belfast Derry Armagh Lisburn Newry...That's ten cities in Ireland.Easy maths really.

wakka12

padohaodha wrote: »

Count em.Dublin Cork Limerick Galway Waterford Belfast Derry Armagh Lisburn Newry...That's ten cities in Ireland.Easy maths really.

I thought kilkenny was a city too, or am I wrong

padohaodha

wakka12 wrote: »

I thought kilkenny was a city too, or am I wrong

It was till the 1898 local govt act as far as I know...

Omackeral

Someone in Sligo with serious notions.

kingbhome

Im from cork, it has to be cork. Not a nice place

ANDREWMUFC

Cork

dd972

Limerick is the least attractive for me, seems to have an interminable greyness about it, Dublin's a curate's egg, ranges from dismal to sublime and everything in between, the only real international city here though offset against the European average.

Cork, depends on where you're based, although too small to appeal as a full time base coupled with the famed Leeside contrariness.

Belfast, fine if you're middle class and based in the south or east of the city, some nice outlying areas towards Bangor, though I'd feel more comfortable up there if Protestant.

Galway, nobody seems to work here, everybody looks like a student or a visitor.

Derry, never been but looks alright for a visit.

For Forks Sake

padohaodha wrote: »

Count em.Dublin Cork Limerick Galway Waterford Belfast Derry Armagh Lisburn Newry...That's ten cities in Ireland.Easy maths really.

Lisburn and Newry got their city status - and I'm not joking here - in a raffle of some description.

Vladimir Poontang

Dublin and Belfast are really the only two cities on this island. Everything else is a ****ing town with notions.

kneemos

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Can’t really look past Waterford for crap cities.

The planning during the Celtic Tiger was disgraceful, they absolutely ruined the city. High rate of unemployment, it’s a bit of a hole tbf.

That shopping centre is still completely empty I notice. It's still in good nick at least and hasn't been vandalised.

Can nobody do something with that derelict Hotel overlooking the city? Fantastic location,would have thought someone would have rejuvenated it during the boom.

boardsuser1

kingbhome wrote: »

Im from cork, it has to be cork. Not a nice place

What part? North or South?

I propose to nominate knocknaheeny for city status, Knocka city :pac:

JupiterKid

I hate to say it, but Waterford is the Cinderella of the Irish cities at the moment. A reflection of the generally neglected South East. Whilst tons of money was poured into improving The Wesht for decades (which Galway directly benefited from) the SE was forgotten.

Limerick has a bad rep but has second to none road infrastructure, a great university and lots of potential with the river Shannon. And it’s getting a Boojum so it earns its city status.

Lisburn and Newry are just towns with notions. They were designated cities for purely political reasons.

Sligo is a large (by Irish standards at least) town. To call it a “city” is laughable. It’s not even the biggest town in the Northwest any more. Drogheda and Dundalk are each more than twice the size of Sligo.

21Savage

It's a real case of who gives a ****. There are two cities on the island. Dublin's alright but despite a pretty huge population relatively it doesn't always feel like a full blown city. Everything is on a small scale. Like the Dart in the morning, it doesn't feel like a train going into a major urban centre like I've experienced elsewhere(albeit in cities way more populated than Dublin) I was in Grafton Street last week at like 9PM and the place was dead. Maybe that's just the time of year but it was eerie. Really shows up the lack of an urban population in the city. To it's detriment imo.

Roger Hassenforder

kingbhome wrote: »

Im from cork, it has to be cork. Not a nice place

Reported

ANDREWMUFC wrote: »

Cork

Reported

Chrongen

I'd have to go with Empire City.

Chuan City used to be kind of crappy but it has improved immensely and though it can be expensive you get what you pay for. Singapore noodles are excellent.

Golden City was the same but it too has come on leaps and bounds.

No, Empire City is the fcuking pits. Dreary and depressing. Stale spring rolls, boiled rice is crap, kung-po chicken is dire.

Poor_old_gill

All the cities on the island have both sh*t parts and nice parts- I guess my favourite would be Dublin due to having lived here for the longest & least favourite is Limerick just due to the fact that its always cold, wet & bleak when I'm down there

McMurphy

JupiterKid wrote: »

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Sligo is a large (by Irish standards at least) town. To call it a “city” is laughable. It’s not even the biggest town in the Northwest any more. Drogheda and Dundalk are each more than twice the size of Sligo.

The cartographer who drew up the map of the island I'm looking at needs sacked, they've only gone and drew Dundalk and Drogheda on the completely opposite side of the island to Sligo




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