What towns are the best craic

SunnyDub1 · 23-04-2012 04:02PM

Clearly Dublin

Temple bar, loads of restaurants, pubs, clubs, and loads to see and do...

Plenty of Crack

Sykk · 23-04-2012 04:07PM

G-g-g-galway

bamboozle · 23-04-2012 04:09PM

dont forget about Dingle. Great spot.

Chuck Stone · 23-04-2012 04:11PM

Cork is the centre of the Universe and is up there with the likes of London, Paris, New York, Sydney and Rio.

skinny90 · 23-04-2012 04:21PM

only been to the aran islands once and it was brilliant,weather was great so id say it really depends on weather for that....
id narrow it down to galway,westport.havnt been in westport in years so i cant tell ya whats its like now but galways always buzzing,great bars,lots of late bars also...

saralou2011 · 23-04-2012 04:21PM

frag420 wrote: »

Castletown......................The was a programme on RTE about it last year. Looks like a mad spot and the locals are charming too.

Some people say the best thing about Castletown is the road out of it. But ya have to use that road to get back into it aswell.......................French Toast

The real name of the town is swinford and it's a right sh1t hole, so don't go there!:p

RichieC · 23-04-2012 04:23PM

The only Zen you find at the top of a mountain is that which you bring with you.

Crooked Jack · 23-04-2012 04:27PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Cork is the centre of the Universe and is up there with the likes of London, Paris, New York, Sydney and Rio.

Cant speak for Sydney or Rio but I've had a few nights out each in New York, Paris and London and I can indeed confirm that the one time I was in Cork was better craic than all of them

ceegee · 23-04-2012 04:28PM

Kilkenny is a decent bet for the May bank holiday, Rhythm and roots festival is on so decent crowds in most bars and plenty of free live music

John Doe1 · 23-04-2012 04:30PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Cork is the centre of the Universe and is up there with the likes of London, Paris, New York, Sydney and Rio.

The one time i went to cork i was raped, pillaged, shot, slapped and raped again.

davet82 · 23-04-2012 04:31PM

John Doe1 wrote: »

The one time i went to cork i was raped, pillaged, shot, slapped and raped again.

so ya had a ball then

John Doe1 · 23-04-2012 04:32PM

davet82 wrote: »

so ya had a ball then

Class craic altogether, im back next week:D

Mance Rayder · 23-04-2012 04:43PM

saralou2011 wrote: »

The real name of the town is swinford and it's a right sh1t hole, so don't go there!:p

It's kind of in the name. Swine - Fjord.

Pig river.

The King of Moo · 23-04-2012 04:46PM

CiscoStudent wrote: »

It's kind of in the name. Swine - Fjord.

Pig river.

Fjord = river!!?? Never knew that was possible.

Surely ford = ford?

Ellis Dee · 23-04-2012 04:47PM

I've had some very enjoyable times in a little thatched cottage near Athy.;););)

Fighting Irish · 23-04-2012 04:53PM

Lord Derpington wrote: »

A few friends and I are looking to head away somewhere in Ireland for the May bank holiday weekend, and are looking to go somewhere that is supposed to be just good craic.

Got me thinking, where does After Hours recommend, have you been anywhere that was just a bit mad and has great night-life?

The places that popped into the conversation straight away were
Lahinch, Carrick on Shannon, Mullingar, Enniscorty, Lisdoonvarna and the Aran Islands.

lol

Il Trap · 23-04-2012 04:53PM

Dwawda, hey! :pac:

Not.

Fighting Irish · 23-04-2012 04:55PM

CB19Kevo wrote: »

City's:
Galway - Young city with a large student population and all that goes with that.
Cork - easygoing and a lot of decent bars.

Towns:
Killarney - People from all over the world visiting and lots of bars and clubs in a small town.

meh to Cork, waaaaaaay to strict

starviewadams · 23-04-2012 04:58PM

Ronanstown is great craic.

Local's are very attentive,they have some lovely equine wildlife too and the view of the sun rising over the electricity pylons every morning is truly breathtaking.

Spudzzmurphy · 23-04-2012 04:59PM

John Doe1 wrote: »

The one time i went to cork i was raped, pillaged, shot, slapped and raped again.

Well you get what you pay for

Mance Rayder · 23-04-2012 05:00PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Fjord = river!!?? Never knew that was possible.

Surely ford = ford?

Where do you think the word ford comes from? The Norse word fjord.

Weylin · 23-04-2012 05:00PM

Naked man refused sex and sat on lover’s face

By Ann Healy
Friday, November 11, 2011
A NAKED man sat on a woman’s face to humiliate her because she goaded him over his lack of "balls" when he refused to have sex with her.
The Polish couple, who met on Facebook, had been having sex four or five times a day during their six-month liaison before the man snapped one night and told her he was tired, his nipples were sore and he didn’t want to have sex.

Lukasz Szutowski, aged 27, of 13 Ocean Drive, Oranmore, Co Galway, denied assaulting Katarzyna Malabis, causing her harm, at his home on September 26 last year.

Ms Malabis told Galway District Court this week that she sustained a back injury when Szutowski threw her onto his bed and sat on her face while he was naked from the waist down. She said she asked him if he was going to rape her. He became outraged and ordered her out.

Ms Malabis said they had been at a wedding that day and there was a misunderstanding between them in his bedroom that night. She became uncomfortable and decided to go home. She claimed Szutowski took her phone and car keys and would not let her leave.

Ms Malabis said that Szutowski threw her on to the bed and she felt something snap in her back. She began to cry and he then sat on her face. She said she was glad she asked him if he was going to rape her because he then got off her and threw her out.

The woman said she was so terrified she climbed out a window to get away. She went to hospital the next day and was put in a back brace for a crushed vertebrae.

In his statement, Szutowski said Ms Malabis was very drunk at the wedding and kept throwing herself at him.

"She wanted sex when we got to my house. She started getting mad and was going to drive home. I took the keys off her because she was drunk. She told me I had no balls because I wouldn’t have sex with her. I pushed her onto the bed and sat on her stomach to calm her down."

Szutowski denied he sat naked on the woman’s face to humiliate her.

Judge Mary Fahy said she believed the accused sat on Ms Malabis’s face to humiliate her.

"It’s a sickening part of the case that he did that but he was charged with assault and not sexual assault," she said, before convicting Szutowski of assault and fining him €750.

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/naked-man-refused-sex-and-sat-on-lovers-face-173553.html#ixzz1sscPpt43

ardinn · 23-04-2012 05:05PM

Thatched cottage near athy??? Are we talking M L??? If so -

By order of epicness

Galway
Carlow
Kilkenny

Simple as.

mikeym · 23-04-2012 05:06PM

Galway
Letterkenny
Dingle

All the above are decent spots.

I've never had a good night out in Dublin :mad:

The King of Moo · 23-04-2012 05:13PM

CiscoStudent wrote: »

Where do you think the word ford comes from? The Norse word fjord.

That's up for debate. It seems to be considered to have come from a similar Old English word, but obviously there's going to be lots of different influences on a word's meaning, with a bit of Lating ("portus" for "port" and the Old English "faran" for "to go").

It now means "river crossing." I'd imagine that's where Swinford got its name from: a ford where pigs could be brought across the river easily.

So close-ish to "pig river."

I'm feeling a bit pedantic at the moment.

Mance Rayder · 23-04-2012 05:33PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

That's up for debate. It seems to be considered to have come from a similar Old English word, but obviously there's going to be lots of different influences on a word's meaning, with a bit of Lating ("portus" for "port" and the Old English "faran" for "to go").

It now means "river crossing." I'd imagine that's where Swinford got its name from: a ford where pigs could be brought across the river easily.

So close-ish to "pig river."

I'm feeling a bit pedantic at the moment.

Flippin pedantophile!

What towns are the best craic

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