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Most miserable and grim towns and villages in Ireland

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  • #32
    Seamai
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    Mountmellick
    Tipperary
    Tralee
    Kilgarvan
    Ballybunion
    Carrick on Suir
    Bundoran


  • #33
    GrumpyMe
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    Clontibret - you need to turn up the heating in the car as you drive through...


  • #34
    Seamai
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    Xertz wrote: »
    Perhaps it's improved, but I really couldn't warm to Bundoran. The towns near by were lovely but just something oddly 'draining' about it.

    Have to agree, Donegal town and even Ballyshannon are far nicer.


  • #35
    Better Than Christ
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    I really like Bray, just sayin'!

    Horrible place, horrible people (no offence to anyone who lives there, but you're horrible). The seafront is slightly less shit than it used to be, but away from that the town has nothing but traffic and supermarkets.


  • #36
    JohnnyFlash
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    The village of Killimor between Portumna and Loughrea in Galway.

    Knock

    Edenderry

    Dundalk


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  • #37
    jackboy
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    tastyt wrote: »
    Cashel is a nice little town, tourism keeps a buzz in it in summer.

    Chair is ok

    Terryglass and Ballina are lovely on the water

    Yes, cashel is nice. Cahir is fine, nothing special but not bad.

    Don’t know Terryglass.

    Slim pickings in Tipp but at least there is some.


  • #38
    All that fandango
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    Oh yay another thread on a topic thats already been done to death on here.


  • #39
    Slim Charles
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    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    If there's a bigger shithole than Bray, I've yet to visit it.




    I never undersatdn this hatred for seaside towns that ireland and the UK share, I love Bray probably the best of this countries seaside towns, across the sea Margate, Brighton and the much lamented Brighton are all good fun. Not sure what people expect from these places, perhaps spoiled by cheap flights and years of holidays in Spain, Turkey etc...be nice to see some of these places rejuvenated with holidaymakers over the next year or two as I imagine many will be reluctant to travel abroad.


    I will grant you some of these towns don't exactly go out of their way to maintain the upkeep of buildings, but I'd sooner a Bray/Courtmacsherry/Scarborough to a Macroom or Thurles any day of the week.


    That being said, I nominate Macroom, Thurles & Durrow.


  • #40
    whisky_galore
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    Knock looks like some craic, drove through it once, shops hawking religious tat from end to end.


  • #41
    corks finest
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    Slim Charles wrote: »
    I never undersatdn this hatred for seaside towns that ireland and the UK share, I love Bray probably the best of this countries seaside towns, across the sea Margate, Brighton and the much lamented Brighton are all good fun. Not sure what people expect from these places, perhaps spoiled by cheap flights and years of holidays in Spain, Turkey etc...be nice to see some of these places rejuvenated with holidaymakers over the next year or two as I imagine many will be reluctant to travel abroad.


    I will grant you some of these towns don't exactly go out of their way to maintain the upkeep of buildings, but I'd sooner a Bray/Courtmacsherry/Scarborough to a Macroom or Thurles any day of the week.


    That being said, I nominate Macroom, Thurles & Durrow.
    Macroom,Bandon,lots innCarlow,Laois,and kildare


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  • #42
    Thelonious Monk
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    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    Horrible place, horrible people (no offence to anyone who lives there, but you're horrible). The seafront is slightly less shit than it used to be, but away from that the town has nothing but traffic and supermarkets.

    Well most towns are just traffic jams in Ireland tbf.


  • #43
    Slim Charles
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    Seamai wrote: »
    Mountmellick
    Tipperary
    Tralee
    Kilgarvan
    Ballybunion
    Carrick on Suir
    Bundoran




    Excellent shout, what a dross town. Really has nothing going for it, and I love Kerry.


  • #44
    alchemist33
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    Happy4all wrote: »
    It's so long since I've been outside, I've forgotten what everywhere looks like.

    Haven't you seen the photos of wildlife returning to the streets, Tyrannosaurs roaming the countryside etc?


  • #45
    JohnnyFlash
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    Slim Charles wrote: »
    Excellent shout, what a dross town. Really has nothing going for it, and I love Kerry.

    It has a world class golf course.


  • #46
    whisky_galore
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    It has a world class golf course.

    Cos everyone plays golf, right?


  • #47
    Slim Charles
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    corks finest wrote: »
    Macroom,Bandon,lots innCarrlow,Laois,and kildare




    I don't think I've ever even been to Carlow.


    I think alot of towns would look a whole lot better without those daft green or blue bookmaker shops. And I like a bet, but those places just attract the doldrums of society and look **** also.


  • #48
    Seamai
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    Slim Charles wrote: »
    I never undersatdn this hatred for seaside towns that ireland and the UK share, I love Bray probably the best of this countries seaside towns, across the sea Margate, Brighton and the much lamented Brighton are all good fun. Not sure what people expect from these places, perhaps spoiled by cheap flights and years of holidays in Spain, Turkey etc...be nice to see some of these places rejuvenated with holidaymakers over the next year or two as I imagine many will be reluctant to travel abroad.


    I will grant you some of these towns don't exactly go out of their way to maintain the upkeep of buildings, but I'd sooner a Bray/Courtmacsherry/Scarborough to a Macroom or Thurles any day of the week.


    That being said, I nominate Macroom, Thurles & Durrow.

    I've never spent much time in Macroom but pass through it pretty regularly, it always strikes be as being a lively place, I'd prefer it to Bandon or Fermoy.


  • #49
    Sober Crappy Chemis
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    Cork Village.


  • #50
    Itssoeasy
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    The last few times I was in youghal in east cork it was dreary as **** and given the history in the town and a potential rail link they are tearing up for a greenway they are making no effort.


  • #51
    Better Than Christ
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    It has a world class golf course.

    A big playground for men in silly trousers.


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  • #52
    Slim Charles
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    It has a world class golf course.




    It doesn't though, it's well outside the town, you can call it Tralee all you like but you've to go through other villages to get there.


  • #53
    Slim Charles
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    The last few times I was in youghal in east cork it was dreary as **** and given the history in the town and a potential rail link they are tearing up for a greenway they are making no effort.




    Winner.


  • #54
    kksaints
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    New Ross and Enniscorthy are both fairly grim.


  • #55
    JohnnyFlash
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    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    A big playground for men in silly trousers.

    What a playground though, dude.

    Women play it as well btw.


  • #56
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Are we talk the island of Ireland or just the “republic”?

    If it’s the 32 counties, it has to Portadown. A thoroughly joyless “dump” populated with miserable, angry, people.

    Dundalk if it’s RoI only. Awful place, awful accent.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #57
    ThePiedPiper
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    Dundalk is a woeful kip. Smelly, covered in dog dirt, miserable I’m pretty much every respect.


  • #58
    Dufflecoat Fanny
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    Ballinasloe


  • #59
    whisky_galore
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    The last few times I was in youghal in east cork it was dreary as **** and given the history in the town and a potential rail link they are tearing up for a greenway they are making no effort.

    A kids amusement arcade (Perks)... concrete animals with various limbs missing on the top of the facade slap bang next to a crumbling former factory building. Elsewhere, a boarded up hotel, curtains flowing in the breeze through shattered windows.
    It's like a glimpse of Pripyat. Pripyat On Sea.


  • #60
    Better Than Christ
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    Slim Charles wrote: »
    I never undersatdn this hatred for seaside towns that ireland and the UK share, I love Bray probably the best of this countries seaside towns, across the sea Margate, Brighton and the much lamented Brighton are all good fun. Not sure what people expect from these places, perhaps spoiled by cheap flights and years of holidays in Spain, Turkey etc...be nice to see some of these places rejuvenated with holidaymakers over the next year or two as I imagine many will be reluctant to travel abroad.


    I will grant you some of these towns don't exactly go out of their way to maintain the upkeep of buildings, but I'd sooner a Bray/Courtmacsherry/Scarborough to a Macroom or Thurles any day of the week.


    That being said, I nominate Macroom, Thurles & Durrow.

    Bray's proximity to the sea gives it so much potential. The absolute state of the place though. I'd almost go as far as to say I prefer Wicklow Town or, fuck me, Arklow.


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  • #61
    whisky_galore
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Are we talk the island of Ireland or just the “republic”?

    If it’s the 32 counties, it has to Portadown. A thoroughly joyless “dump” populated with miserable, angry, people.

    Dundalk if it’s RoI only. Awful place, awful accent.

    Portydown...a town built around a church, bonfire and a bus stop.


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