Roughest town in Ireland 2019

rainybillwill · 27-07-2019 11:17am

branie2 wrote: »

Parts of Limerick city

most of limerick city:(

Wildly Boaring · 27-07-2019 11:21am

Longford town
Tralee
Athlone

In no particular order

rainybillwill · 27-07-2019 11:21am

A lot of towns in Mayo are very rough

jammiedodgers · 27-07-2019 11:30am

Longford

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 27-07-2019 11:32am

jammiedodgers wrote: »

Longford

Nope. Safest county in Ireland. The town is probably fairly safe given that reality.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/crime/crimebycounty/roscommon-and-longford/

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 27-07-2019 11:36am

Excluding cities it’s probably drogheda and Dundalk. Louth is the 4th worst county overall.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/crime/crimebycounty/louth/

For public disorder (which probably equates best to “roughness”) Tralee and Killarney are good bets as Kerry tops the league for that stat.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/crime/crimebycounty/kerry/

Waterford is not that safe but it may be the city only and the actual stats we have are per county.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/crime/crimebycounty/waterford/

Athlone is probably rough given west Meath is the 6th worst county for per capita criminality.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/crime/crimebycounty/westmeath/

Longford is safe. So is Tipp.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/crime/crimebycounty/roscommon-and-longford/

https://www.irishexaminer.com/crime/crimebycounty/tipperary/

MissDisaster · 27-07-2019 11:39am

As a member of those living in a drogheda I’m putting it up for nomination purely sue to the sheer amount of gangland shooting we’ve had in the past year.

What beats me is none of them seem to have any aim! If I was a drug lord I think I’d invest in some marksman skills classes so at least the job would be done properly.

Maybe then eventually they’d all just thin out the herd and die of natural stupidity or drug use.

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 27-07-2019 11:40am

rainybillwill wrote: »

A lot of towns in Mayo are very rough

Second safest country in Ireland.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/crime/crimebycounty/mayo/

Church on Tuesday · 27-07-2019 12:17pm

Ballaghadereen.

rossie1977 · 27-07-2019 12:32pm

rainybillwill wrote: »

A lot of towns in Mayo are very rough

Are they? I have been out in pretty much every major town in Mayo late at night and never noticed any real trouble.

Bringing it back to Athlone during my years living there I saw a fight pretty much every night I was out and I would warn friends who didn't live there never to react if someone said something to them on street at night.

27-07-2019 12:34pm

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

South Tipp not north Tipp is in the south east tourism boards regime (as a quick google confirms). Not nenagh then. Another quick google tells me that Tipp is 14th in most visited county. Mostly south Tipp I’d guess, what with two castles. People like castles.

North Tipperary has the lake, but it's true that south Tipperary has more castles. Very few outsiders are aware of the sheer natural beauty of the lake, and how peaceful it is, and that's the way we like it.

Someone mentioned Mountrath earlier as being rough. I don't drive through Mountrath very often since the M7 bypass was finished, but I always found it a very nice town, handsome local architecture and friendly locals. Any town that reared Claire Byrne can't so bad.

iebamm2580 · 27-07-2019 12:46pm

People here must be soft asf. Not 1 part Tipperary I'd be nervous about walking through at any time. Don't need the oh your hard memes as replies either.

The_Kew_Tour · 27-07-2019 12:49pm

iebamm2580 wrote: »

People here must be soft asf. Not 1 part Tipperary I'd be nervous about walking through at any time. Don't need the oh your hard memes as replies either.

Ya tell that to people who get randomly attacked there

iebamm2580 · 27-07-2019 12:53pm

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Ya tell that to people who get randomly attacked there

Ah here you can get attacked anywhere, you can't label a county or even town rough by the odd assault.

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 27-07-2019 12:57pm

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Ya tell that to people who get randomly attacked there

As opposed to the randomly attacked people everywhere else.

Literally the 6th safest county in Ireland.

Cork is 3rd unsafest. I don’t go out much in Tipp as I am visiting very old grandparents but the last time I did go out (in Clonmel) on a Saturday night a year ago it was best described as utterly dead rather than dangerous.

As I said this thread is subjective but the facts aren’t.

Westernyelp · 27-07-2019 1:02pm

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote:

Nope. Safest county in Ireland. The town is probably fairly safe given that reality.

Are unsafe and rough not two different things?

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 27-07-2019 1:02pm

rossie1977 wrote: »

Are they? I have been out in pretty much every major town in Mayo late at night and never noticed any real trouble.

Bringing it back to Athlone during my years living there I saw a fight pretty much every night I was out and I would warn friends who didn't live there never to react if someone said something to them on street at night.

Westmeath is up there in the criminal stats alright.

As for mayo the only time I was in Balina (good night out) it was totally calm.

Westernyelp · 27-07-2019 1:03pm

Bundoran as an edge to it at times

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 27-07-2019 1:03pm

Westernyelp wrote: »

Are unsafe and rough not two different things?

These are my facts and if you don’t like them you can have your opinions.

nthclare · 27-07-2019 1:03pm

My version of a rough town is a place that's run down, dirty and lacks character.

You'll get rapscallions everywhere, from the top of the elites to the lowest strung of society...

Roughness doesn't discriminate, a head butt or kick in the head while you're down from a fit angry Jock or a high heel in the noggin from strapping fit leggy lady with blue blood and Eton education will hurt a lot more than from some skanger full of booze or a slag from the terraced housing estate...

Or a fong up the hole from a farmer who eats well....

Take your pick, I'd have a far better chance coming out of a brawl on the street than someone from the country who's strong and healthy.

Haven't had to defend myself in a long time, but the street brawler in the urban area's will come at you with a haymaker, you'll see it coming.

More than likely the fitter nutter will clatter ya

But in an urban scenario Duck the haymaker or move aside, swift self defense clatter to their glass jaw if needs be lights out walk away....

Westernyelp · 27-07-2019 1:07pm

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote:

These are my facts and if you donâ€™t like them you can have your opinions.

Sorry Donald

Westernyelp · 27-07-2019 1:08pm

nthclare wrote:

You'll get rapscallions everywhere, from the top of the elites to the lowest strung of society...

Kudos on the Rapscallion revival

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 27-07-2019 1:11pm

Westernyelp wrote: »

Sorry Donald

Let me rephrase. These are the facts. Feel free to continue to have your opinions though.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/crime/crimebycounty

Westernyelp · 27-07-2019 1:14pm

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote:

Let me rephrase. These are the facts. Feel free to continue to have your opinions though.

Much obliged Herr Peppercorn

27-07-2019 1:16pm

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

Cork is 3rd unsafest. I don’t go out much in Tipp as I am visiting very old grandparents but the last time I did go out (in Clonmel) on a Saturday night a year ago it was best described as utterly dead rather than dangerous.

Your grandparents were from Clonmel? So were mine. Do you wonder, back in the 1940s or whatever, did they just stand outside bars or on either side of the river, and talk with strangers about pointless, interesting things iike the roughest town in Ireland or toilet etiquette and the Bristol Scale?

And if not, are they the boring ones or are we?

nthclare · 27-07-2019 1:17pm

Westernyelp wrote: »

Kudos on the Rapscallion revival

Prounced Wapscallion

corks finest · 27-07-2019 1:20pm

Limerick

Atoms for Peace · 27-07-2019 1:37pm

LuasSimon wrote: »

We did the poorest town and had our winner but where is the roughest town in Ireland in the view of boards members . Again we are not talking about the cities of Dublin etc .
What town has the worst for violence , intimidation , drugs etc . So many towns are suffering with drugs , traveller feuds etc .
I’ll start the ball rolling with Tralee which has a ever growing traveller community and some very dangerous east Europeans in the mix , usedbe a lovely place to visit for rose of Tralee but now that’s all changed .

Killarney is every bit as bad if not worse, to be fair to Tralee. The diddly-eye touristy image is well protected.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/armed-gardai-called-to-feud-in-killarney-936136.html

The_Kew_Tour · 27-07-2019 1:41pm

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

As opposed to the randomly attacked people everywhere else.

Literally the 6th safest county in Ireland.

Cork is 3rd unsafest. I don’t go out much in Tipp as I am visiting very old grandparents but the last time I did go out (in Clonmel) on a Saturday night a year ago it was best described as utterly dead rather than dangerous.

As I said this thread is subjective but the facts aren’t.

Cork City is rough enough at night. Although funny enough infind the cuties much safer then towns. Seem far less fights etc

fryup · 27-07-2019 1:51pm

corks finest wrote: »

Limerick

*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"

rainybillwill · 27-07-2019 1:53pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Ballaghadereen.

Ballaghadereen is very rough also found Ballinrobe and Ballyhaunis
a bit dodge

Ally Dick · 27-07-2019 1:56pm

I wasn't impressed with Ennis. Stayed there for a weekend once. Never saw so many drunk people lounging around drinking al fresco. There was trouble in the Supermacs that night. Three guys tried to get in when they were closing, and they smashed the window and ran off

Doctors room ghost · 27-07-2019 2:00pm

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

Westernyelp · 27-07-2019 2:03pm

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

There has been zero riots. Tabloid nonsense.

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 27-07-2019 2:07pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Your grandparents were from Clonmel? So were mine. Do you wonder, back in the 1940s or whatever, did they just stand outside bars or on either side of the river, and talk with strangers about pointless, interesting things iike the roughest town in Ireland or toilet etiquette and the Bristol Scale?

And if not, are they the boring ones or are we?

My grandparents are still around though ancient. I don’t want to be specific but they did a lot of civic stuff, including in one of their cases founding one or two organisations that are still around.

The granddad was a huge movie buff. People used to go to movies 2-3 times a week then. If you missed a movie that was it.

Then they did the standard old things. Walked fast and erratically in black and a white world. Rationing. Offal eating. Went to mass. Waved at departing ships.

Treble double · 27-07-2019 2:15pm

Any garrison town where British soldiers or black n tans left their seed back in the day or any town that settled travellers all the same problems one as bad as the next

Treble double · 27-07-2019 2:15pm

Any garrison town where British soldiers or black n tans left their seed back in the day or any town that settled travellers all the same problems one as bad as the next

Salt Lake Stallion · 27-07-2019 2:26pm

L1011 wrote: »

Athy

Not surprised to see Athy being mentioned, it has a very bad reputation and high number of murders for it's small population throughout the years.

I've lived in both Athy and Carlow Town. Always felt much safer on nights out in Athy than Carlow. Carlow has far more troublemakers out around the town at night time, granted it has a much bigger population.

27-07-2019 2:26pm

Castlebar is fine, nearly zero crime.

Titzon Toast · 27-07-2019 2:28pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

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

Anyway. Limerick is fairly rough.

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

Fire away.

tayto lover · 27-07-2019 2:31pm

Titzon Toast wrote: »

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

Fire away.

I thought the term “ culchies” referred to those not from Dublin city???
If so anyone from Limerick City is a culchie.

Mr.Maroon · 27-07-2019 2:34pm

6541 wrote: »

Castlebar is fine, nearly zero crime.

Castlebar is only ok - but there's worse towns around the country.

Ballinrobe is desperate.

Sam Quentin · 27-07-2019 2:34pm

A hard question to answer:: see if you look at, we'll say for instance/eg: Carlingford, without doubt it's beautiful,and probably the most scenic landscape with 360° breathtaking views in all of Ireland..... But if you were a drinker and frequented the bars on any given weekend night/late afternoon,.or if you were a concerned local,then you would think Carlingford was rough. So I suppose over-all it's not rough,.but if I was to visit on a summer Saturday night with all the stags and hens,then I would say it's rough....

freshpopcorn · 27-07-2019 2:41pm

I think they are lots of towns that have issues now that they weren't there in the past.
I've seen it in several places. They can be a council estate built in the 70's/80's. Locals lived there and there was no real issues over the years.
Now every Tom, Dick and Harry from cities seems to be landed in regional towns and they seem to carry their issues with them.

harr · 27-07-2019 2:42pm

Has Athy been mentioned ? Always was and always will be a kip no matter how hard they try to fight the bad image. Generations of same families causing trouble.
Of course like any rough town it has its decent residents.

bodhrandude · 27-07-2019 3:03pm

Westernyelp wrote: »

Bundoran as an edge to it at times

Its got better over the years, Sea Sessions Festival has helped its cred a bit, there is now a whole load of surfing cafes and shops and a nice wee scene going up there. Saying that my memories of the eighties sometimes there was that every second person was a serious alcoholic and some of the pubs can be real dives.

is_that_so · 27-07-2019 3:30pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I should have added, "in my experience". One week out of a year isn't reflective of the whole. As for the Fleadh - similar numbers thronged Ennis, and Sligo prior to that. And I attended both. We'll have to agree to disagree.

Not my experience of it at all unless you're on the street at 3 am on a Saturday when two nightclubs disgorge drunken punters onto the same street. I reckon the "menace" is in the accent! A whole lot more in Drogheda for the Fleadh BTW, at least 50K more and they expect to beat that this year.

jammiedodgers · 27-07-2019 3:54pm

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

Nope. Safest county in Ireland. The town is probably fairly safe given that reality.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/crime/crimebycounty/roscommon-and-longford/

Well I was basing it more on the fact there is armed Gardai there because of a traveller feud with a "spate of recent violence includes stabbings, arson attacks and hit-and-run"

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/armed-garda%C3%AD-deployed-in-longford-amid-feud-between-families-1.3931876

Car99 · 27-07-2019 3:55pm

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.

chicorytip · 27-07-2019 4:23pm

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

fryup wrote:

"are ya goin to Ballynanty"

...not in comparison to the flat Galway accent. Actually, Galway City centre is the roughest kip in Ireland, day or night.

Roughest town in Ireland 2019

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