Worst City in Ireland

wakka12 · 22-01-2018 11:48PM

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 · 22-01-2018 11:51PM

Derry is unironically the best on the island

gmisk · 22-01-2018 11:56PM

Omackeral wrote: »

Londonderry

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

padohaodha · 23-01-2018 12:03AM

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 · 23-01-2018 12:06AM

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 · 23-01-2018 12:10AM

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...

23-01-2018 12:11AM

Someone in Sligo with serious notions.

kingbhome · 23-01-2018 12:11AM

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

ANDREWMUFC · 23-01-2018 12:15AM

Cork

dd972 · 23-01-2018 12:22AM

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 · 23-01-2018 12:24AM

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 · 23-01-2018 12:29AM

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

kneemos · 23-01-2018 12:41AM

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 · 23-01-2018 12:47AM

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 · 23-01-2018 12:55AM

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 · 23-01-2018 12:56AM

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 · 23-01-2018 01:03AM

kingbhome wrote: »

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

Reported

ANDREWMUFC wrote: »

Cork

Reported

Chrongen · 23-01-2018 02:39AM

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 · 23-01-2018 08:16AM

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 · 23-01-2018 09:00AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

I
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

:pac:

Worst City in Ireland

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