Roughest town in Ireland 2019

Ally Dick

Jesus, Fk_it36. This sure looks like spam. Life is too short

corks finest

Titzon Toast wrote:

On the contrary, we're quite used to bitter culchies with chips on their shoulders whining about our city.

Not a knife/ hatchet in sight welcome to the new Limerick ( excuse me for sniggering)sorry bud couldn't help myself only windy you, every town /city in Ireland is gone to the dogs

BOHtox

Tallaght or Tralee

cantalach

fryup wrote: »

*the inner-city Limerick accent has to be the roughest in the country (if not the world) its like sandpaper on the ears

"are ya goin to Ballynanty"

Seems to me that most inner city residents these days are young professional types and migrants from elsewhere in Ireland and overseas. Students make up a very large % of the city centre population too. So I've no idea which accent you're talking about. Hearing a particular accent in the city centre doesn't make it an inner city accent. You know there are buses and cars in Limerick right? None of the large council estates (where the Limerick accent is strongest) is in the inner city.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^

alright then..if you want to be specific...the broad Limerick City accent ..moyross, southhill, kennedy Park, garryowen, weston etc

rough as a badger's arse

supersaint3

And no one has mentioned monasterevin yet ?

tayto lover

Vita nova wrote: »

It's a pejorative term for a rural dweller and a synonym for an unsophisticated country person. Anyone that thinks that describes everyone from rural Ireland or from outside Dublin is an idiot to say the least.

Limerick is in the country.

fryup

supersaint3 wrote: »

And no one has mentioned monasterevin yet ?

where the women ride the men?

harry Bailey esq

Nicetrustedcup wrote: »

Tipperary Town just something about that place just can't point my finger on.

A big red button that says 'do not press' comes to mind...

1o059k7ewrqj3n

Tralee. Seen someone glassed in a pub. The woman behind the bar had a look that said she'd seen it a dozen times.

corks finest

harry Bailey esq wrote:

A big red button that says 'do not press' comes to mind...

Town full of Dougals ?

Stacksey

The roughest and biggest kip of a town I've been in in my 37 years on earth is New Ross

Beechwoodspark

Arklow from my own experience is quite rough

Beechwoodspark

There’s a story about arklow seemingly a stag party from England (Coventry or someplace) showed up there and proceeded to get drunk and insult all around them

The entire street took turns beating them out of the town from Alcos to shopkeepers to teachers to doctors and guards even local politicians everyone had a go !!

Your Face

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

There’s a story about arklow seemingly a stag party from England (Coventry or someplace) showed up there and proceeded to get drunk and insult all around them

The entire street took turns beating them out of the town from Alcos to shopkeepers to teachers to doctors and guards everyone had a go !!

The town I went to school in had a story like this.

Its probably more likely the locals did f all.

cantalach

Your Face wrote: »

The town I went to school in had a story like this.

Its probably more likely the locals did f all.

Well said. Same here. It's like the way every country with a coastline has now adopted the story of how a US aircraft carrier was bearing down on their lighthouse and ordering the lighthouse keepers to divert their course.

jammiedodgers

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

There’s a story about arklow seemingly a stag party from England (Coventry or someplace) showed up there and proceeded to get drunk and insult all around them

The entire street took turns beating them out of the town from Alcos to shopkeepers to teachers to doctors and guards even local politicians everyone had a go !!

And then everyone clapped?

Wanderer2010

Carrick on Suir is some sh!thole, always has a really tense vibe as if anything could kick off at any time. I know a lot of towns are like that but Carrick on Suir for me is the worst!

faceman

Having spent some time in Detroit in the US, its hard to consider Irish towns rough by any broad definition of the word.

That being said, having to pull over while driving through Finglas West to let a speeding car and a Garda car in pursuit get passed me and then seeing some lad bring a horse through the front door of his house is an image I won't forget for a long time!

Jimmy McGill

Gorey is starting to creep up the list for me. Nowadays there's junkies and all sorts all around the main street and surrounding areas from the crack of dawn.

Blaizes

Vita nova wrote: »

Personally, I wouldn't call someone living in Limerick city a country person, he/she is a city person. Anyway, irrespective of what your definition of the country is, not everyone living there is an "unsophisticated country person".

I think in Dublin everyone ( not from Dublin) is considered a country person or someone living down the country. When I worked there I heard the terms ‘culchie’ and ‘ from the sticks’ being applied to non Dublin people.

Wasn’t too bothered at the time and still not now, but it probably is a bit offensive( bearing in mind that some Dublin people may never have even been outside the capital ) Sad if true imo, considering we are such a small island.

Spanish Eyes

Oh god, there goes my retirement plan of getting a little tiny bolthole somewhere out of the city now!

There needs to be another thread about great places in this country, and I am sure there are many, including those mentioned above, if you don't venture out late at night!

Suggestions welcome...

rainybillwill

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Castlebar is gone rough.running riots in broad daylight lately.
Shopkeepers are closing doors in mass protest and a big garda station a 2 minute walk away

Yes Castlebar is very rough

Abba987

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Oh god, there goes my retirement plan of getting a little tiny bolthole somewhere out of the city now!

There needs to be another thread about great places in this country, and I am sure there are many, including those mentioned above, if you don't venture out late at night!

Suggestions welcome...

Just thinking the same. If I move out of Dublin ( we don't all love it or think it's safe) where am u going after reading this. Even gorey is rough now ??

harry Bailey esq

corks finest wrote: »

Town full of Dougals ?

Which is an anagram of Douglas, which is beside mahon, which is home to some of 'corks finest'

dubrov

Woke Hogan wrote:

Of course it did. Dublin people can't stand to have their town criticised.

Do you go to Dublin regularly?

Macdarack

Kilrush Co Clare is a fine town but the degerates there are pound for pound some of the most awful people I've seen. I feel sorry for any tourists who come off the ferry from kerry and pull up in kilrush for a walk,scobes hanging around with their heroin ridden faces, standing in their own pools of spit. I know someone in the post office there and the amount of money given out to the system leaching dolers is a fu€€ing disgrace. They should be sterilised. Inbreds.

bodhrandude

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Carrick on Suir is some sh!thole, always has a really tense vibe as if anything could kick off at any time. I know a lot of towns are like that but Carrick on Suir for me is the worst!

Do you mind not mentioning this place please, I have to travel through here on Wednesday on my way to All Together Now Festival, I don't want to make the journey any freakier.

ArnoldJRimmer

Day Lewin wrote: »

Dundalk has a pretty rough reputation: it seems to have more murders per 1000 population that most places.
And the grafitti and street vandalism is fairly serious too.

I think it must be because it's so close to the border - maybe terrorists hide there??

PS but terrorists probably keep a low profile, so there's that. *ponders*

As my Da used to say, Dundalk is so rough, even the alsatians walk around in groups of 3.

Been a while since I've been there, but Kells used to be rough as fcuk. The Cavan team bus was famously pelted with rocks going through the town on their way back from Croke Park

Cantona's Collars

Jimmy McGill wrote: »

Gorey is starting to creep up the list for me. Nowadays there's junkies and all sorts all around the main street and surrounding areas from the crack of dawn.

A load of them and other dregs of society have relocated from Dublin to parts of Courtown and Ardamine. Gorey itself isn't rough but the sight of these people hanging around gives a bad impression,they even had to install special lights at public buildings where junkies were shooting up, these lights make it impossible for them to find veins so they piss off somewhere else.
What used to be nice places have turned into ghettos out around the Courtown area.

Xenji

6541 wrote: »

Castlebar is fine, nearly zero crime.

Pull the other one, the town is unfortunately suffering from serious issues this year, hopefully it will be resolved in the near future as it is a very small minority.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057993858

Wanderer2010

bodhrandude wrote: »

Do you mind not mentioning this place please, I have to travel through here on Wednesday on my way to All Together Now Festival, I don't want to make the journey any freakier.

Its fine as long as you keep your doors locked and windows down as you drive through it. I definitely wouldn't advise getting out- some heads hanging around that little park in the centre..good luck!

Jimmy McGill

Abba987 wrote: »

Even gorey is rough now ??

You bet it is. Junkies that can barely keep there eyes open are found all over the town. Needles are regularly found in the local park and side streets around the town. Gangs of layabouts are often seen drinking cans on the main street and the Gardaí always drive right past and turn a blind eye.

Tipperary town is the kip that time forgot but in terms of drugs, horse & cart olympics and general danger I'd nominate Clonmel.

The high horse brigade

Longford. I worked in many towns and cities all over the country, none come close to this sh1thole

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Carrick on Suir is some sh!thole, always has a really tense vibe as if anything could kick off at any time. I know a lot of towns are like that but Carrick on Suir for me is the worst!

Wrong.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Longford. I worked in many towns and cities all over the country, none come close to this sh1thole

Also wrong. In fact it’s the safest place in Ireland.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Tipperary town is the kip that time forgot but in terms of drugs, horse & cart olympics and general danger I'd nominate Clonmel.

Nope.

Jimmy McGill

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

A load of them and other dregs of society have relocated from Dublin to parts of Courtown and Ardamine. Gorey itself isn't rough but the sight of these people hanging around gives a bad impression,they even had to install special lights at public buildings where junkies were shooting up, these lights make it impossible for them to find veins so they piss off somewhere else.
What used to be nice places have turned into ghettos out around the Courtown area.

Even a girl was found in the toilets in Boylesports in Gorey recently overdosed on heroin. Open drug dealing is seen every day in broad daylight and the Garda always just drive right past and pretend it's not happening.

Purple Mountain

Car99 wrote: »

Nicetrustedcup wrote: »

Tipperary Town just something about that place just can't point my finger on.

Maybe the group of men drinking on the bench very frequently including today at 2pm outside the off licence on the main street makes it feel rough. Or the state of the public toilets with bits of foil wrapping all over the floor left behind by drug users. Tipp is a bit rough alright.

I don't think it's rough per sé.
It has some of the worst socio-economic deprevation in Ireland and is a mental health black spot but you rarely hear much in the way of crime or disturbance there.
It's quite sad because there are generations of business families there who work hard to get their shops open and the trade in the town but for some reason, the town and it's people got left behind.

lbc2019

Tallaght

skooterblue2

suicide_circus wrote: »

Rathkeale leaves a lot to be desired.

Rathkeale is low lying fruit. It is garunteed by it local population. We cant say it without being racist. So everywhere outside of there

skooterblue2

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Carrick on Suir is some sh!thole,

Yes it is but I have seen far worse ..... you need to see Dundalk or El Passo as the brits call it

skooterblue2

Jimmy McGill wrote: »

Gorey is starting to creep up the list for me. Nowadays there's junkies and all sorts all around the main street and surrounding areas from the crack of dawn.

Can you find Andrew Maxwells sketch on Junkies?
Its a full time job being a junkie. You have to be up at the crack of dawn doing the junkie shuffle (short step long step)on your way to find a fix. There is nothing busier than a junkie in the morning

Mad_maxx

Any town with a significant tinker population.

Blaizes

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Oh god, there goes my retirement plan of getting a little tiny bolthole somewhere out of the city now!

There needs to be another thread about great places in this country, and I am sure there are many, including those mentioned above, if you don't venture out late at night!

Suggestions welcome...

Aran islands...

skooterblue2

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Oh god, there goes my retirement plan of getting a little tiny bolthole somewhere out of the city now!

There needs to be another thread about great places in this country, and I am sure there are many, including those mentioned above, if you don't venture out late at night!

Suggestions welcome...

I am suggest offering Central African Republic an amount of money to take them, say €50 a month. Anyone who disagrees with me is going with them too so they wont be lonely. We will not be abandoning them as we will be giving them 2 40 foot crates of clothing from Pennys, A crate of Yahoo and 30KG of pure Heroin per month, CAR can clean up after them.

davidk1394

bodhrandude wrote: »

Do you mind not mentioning this place please, I have to travel through here on Wednesday on my way to All Together Now Festival, I don't want to make the journey any freakier.

It’s a grand town. The other town your going to travel through which is Portlaw is worse

davidk1394

A lot of towns in Ireland seem to be **** holes. If you ever want to see **** hole towns in a first world country go to Australia and visit the towns of Cowra and Esprence. Two absolute shîtholes.

LuasSimon

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Any town with a significant tinker population.

That could be any of a hundred towns in Ireland , what town has the highest percentage of travellers in it ... forget rathkeale as most of those travellers are abroad most of the year ... bunclody , enniscorthy must be high up that list