The Inverse Tidy Towns

Neon_Lights · 13-04-2017 05:14PM #1

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 · 13-04-2017 05:20PM

Dublin

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Teddington Cuddlesworth · 13-04-2017 05:21PM

Is this another thread dedicated to poking fun at Leitrim?

Neon_Lights · 13-04-2017 05:22PM

Teddington Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Is this another thread dedicated to poking fun at Leitrim?

No that's the Inverse rose of tralee

Rumpy Pumpy · 13-04-2017 05:23PM

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 · 13-04-2017 05:26PM

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 · 13-04-2017 05:49PM

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

A nuclear strike would only improve the place.

Mr McBoatface · 13-04-2017 05:50PM

Athy

RayM · 13-04-2017 05:53PM

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 · 13-04-2017 05:54PM

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 · 13-04-2017 05:55PM

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 · 13-04-2017 05:56PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Dublin

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Since when was Dublin a town

Noddyholder · 13-04-2017 05:57PM

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

Noddyholder · 13-04-2017 06:03PM

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 · 13-04-2017 06:11PM

Noddyholder wrote: »

Since when was Dublin a town

Tis a dirty old town sure.

Moonbeam · 13-04-2017 06:14PM

I would have said Athy but it has improved alot .

Winterlong · 13-04-2017 06:32PM

Is Kinnegad still in existence?

Hitchens · 25-09-2017 06:04PM

Winner 2017 ...is this a town?

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 25-09-2017 06:17PM

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 · 25-09-2017 06:23PM

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 · 25-09-2017 06:41PM

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 · 25-09-2017 06:46PM

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 · 25-09-2017 06:48PM

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 · 25-09-2017 07:03PM

They messed up Galway City.

Roger Hassenforder · 25-09-2017 07:56PM

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 · 25-09-2017 07:58PM

bennyineire wrote: »

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

Nenagh

sligojoek · 25-09-2017 09:09PM

Poppy Round Gunpoint wrote: »

Nenagh

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

brooke 2 · 25-09-2017 09:13PM

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 · 25-09-2017 09:21PM

Roscrea.

Jobstown.

Neilstown.

Is Moyross a town ?

sligojoek · 25-09-2017 09:24PM

Ballyshannon is known colloquially as the Ballymun of Donegal.

Ken. · 25-09-2017 09:34PM

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.

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