Crap Towns

Originally posted by Shinji
Dundalk sure as hell needs to be in there. In fact, the north-east has plenty to offer in the way of utterly crap towns - might I suggest Ardee, Castleblayney, Clones and just about anywhere in Cavan as worthy candidates?

Someone has obviously had a bad experience with the north east? Dundalk is grand now, I would agree with the rest.

I would tend to put any biggish sized town on the list that is stuck in the middle of nothing, i.e. more that 40 or 50 miles from another decent sized town.

I remember the day when I worked in a busy helpdesk, Ballincolling caused the most hassle. Between people being thick stupid or just trying to rip us off, I have really grown to hate CORK because of this kip.

Originally posted by spandauballet
Portarlington in Laois/Offaly would get my vote.
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i second this vote

Originally posted by Shinji
Sounds like ample reason to avoid the place to me.

Beautiful......


I grew up there. Yeah, I'd broadly class that as a bad experience

Originally posted by Shinji
Dundalk is by no means "grand" now. The addition of a crap shopping centre and tarting up a few shopfronts does not change a town from being a scummy sectarian sh1thole full of filthy knackers overnight. And hey guess what! It's still ALL of those things, AND it's got a great drugs problem to boot. Plus it smells like a compost heap thanks to the Harp brewery.

The place has a few problems, that much is granted, but what other town of its size does not. As for the drug problem, you are overstating that issue quite alot. As for the the addition of a crap shopping centre, which one is this, the Longwalk or the Superquinn centre? The town itself has cleaned itself up dramatically and this was represented in the recent tidy town competition where it was one of the highest ranked large towns. The recent overhaul of the courthouse, the plans for the square (the last big problem), the retail parks and the constantly expanding college all bring the town out of the status of being a hole and makes it a considerably more pleasurable place to live than any other town in the regions.

yay dundalk!
plus dundalk fc supporters have all these deadly chants like "come on the shed" and "we just missed eastenders".

Cork. Never have I met so many people with a chip on their shoulder against Dublin people. I’ve been there twice in recent time (both for weekends away with my mates) and the amount of hassle we got just because we’re from Dublin was unbelievable. I regularly go to Galway, Wexford and Kilkenny too and have never experienced anything like it elsewhere.

Biggest kip i've been in this year was Mitchelstown. God the thoughts of it now. And while I think if it Fermoy as well. We should ask George Bush for a couple of nukes for these two towns and do everyone a favour.

otherwise just bulldoze the slimepits and build a six lane highway right through 'em!!!!

Originally posted by Shinji

Dr. Loon - Carrickmacross would be up there for me as well, although going back to the town now it doesn't seem half as bad as when I lived there. It's still a horrible rural Irish kip full of annoying nosy people, but as towns go it's actually quite attractive and well serviced by standards. Where "standards" are the comparisons with the surrounding towns, admittedly - Castleblayney, Ardee and Kingscourt aren't hard examples to surpass....

True, it's slightly more pleasant than what I remember from my younger years. It's often won the auld tidy towns hasn't it? Although that really doesn't say too much.

Anytime I've visited recently, all I've done is get amazingly drunk. Cos that's all there is to do, and all anyone seems to do. Gladly I won't have to visit anymore as I've no relatives there anymore really.

New List - I'd forgotten about Navan, (not such a bad thing).

1. Tuam.
Tuam is a clear winner in the "dump of the year" competition. Most of Tuam is grimy and unkempt. It's not unusual to see an old fridge dumped on one of the main streets. The people all speak "sham" which is a mix of english, Irish and slang, used by the travelling community. Communication with a Tuam native is often an adventure in itself. That is if you can talk to one without him/her trying to stab/kick/bite/shoot you. Drive through Tuam at night on a weekend, and half the people you see spilling out of it's 30 or so pubs, will be kicking the crap out of one another. Tuam people are nororiously Zenophobic (and smelly).

2. Navan.
Navan's first big problem is that it's in Meath. If that wasn't enough, the Navan accent is easily the most horrid use of vocal chords EVER. Nothing to do there, and nobody to do it with. That about sums up Navan.

3. Kinnegad.
Kinnegad is a place you pass through (or around, now that there's a bypass) on the way to somewhere else. The only reason you'd ever stop there is to get petrol. There is NOTHING to do in Kinnegad, except leave.

4. Newtownmountkennedy.
Newtownmountkennedy is your typical Wicklow town, dreary, scruffy, and full of people who can't afford to live in a Dublin suburb. The amount of skangers in Newtownmountkennedy leads me to conclude that there is a factory there producing them.

5. Clane.
I've been in Clane twice, but from now on, I drive to where I want to go, via Dingle, rather than anywhere near this place. A classic example of why condoms should have been more widely distributed in Ireland years ago.

There are other places that deserve a mention, but I have lived/spent time in the first 4 places above, so I consider my opinions to be well founded. Other places I have not been to much, but other people seem to abhor them. The rest of the list of shame should be:

Ballyshannon - Donegal's version of Tuam.

Bundoran - Meeting point for all the sumbags from the north to congregate at weekends to do as they wish, before heading back home where the Gardai can't touch them.

Edgeworthstown - Boarded up hell hole.

Waterford - Gowan Mossy!

Milltown - Or indeed Cork in general.

Limerick - It IS actually as bad as they say, but at least there are things to do there.....

Sligo. (I loved it, but it's got a bad rep).

Can’t believe no-one mentioned Courtown yet. I’m sure it’s a lovely place in the winter, but in the summer Dublin’s most hardened scangers pack up their shell suits, soverigns, and Johnny Blue, throw 10 horrible screaming little kids in the back of the Hi-Ace and make their yearly pilgrimage to Wexford. I’ve seen kids take a dump on the path outside an arcade, I’ve seen two grown men beat the living ****e out of each other over a kite and I’ve seen a horde of teenage scumbags descend on a shop and fleece the place blind, before beating the ****e out of each other over the spoils. All of this was in the space one long weekend.

Is this gonna be a Cork Vs Dublin thread now, brought on by the Cork people!? Imagine. Inferiority complex?