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Worst city in Ireland

  • 24-05-2012 10:59pm
    #1
    Monty Burnz
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    Based on a healthy debate on the rugby board, I'd just like to do a quick straw poll on which of the four major cities in Ireland is the biggest dump. Please base this on your actual impression of the city rather than political issues...:pac:

    Which is the worst city in Ireland 550 votes

    Limerick
    0% 0 votes
    Galway
    62% 345 votes
    Dublin
    3% 20 votes
    Cork
    33% 185 votes


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  • #2
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    I always thought Kilkenny was a city ? :confused:


  • #3
    mikemac1
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    You are leaving out Irelands oldest city!


  • #4
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Newry


  • #5
    Mr.Biscuits
    Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Mr.Biscuits


    Amusement City .. mental happenings in there of a Saturday.


  • #6
    mikemac1
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    Derry, it's a hole


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  • #7
    Yamanoto
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    westendgirlie wrote: »
    I always thought Kilkenny was a city ? :confused:

    2 main streets does not a city make.

    Royal charter me arse.


  • #8
    cruais
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭cruais


    It's a toss up between limerick and cork... Both depress me especially parts of limerick! I keep thinking of Angela's ashes!


  • #9
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Power City


  • #10
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    Lisburn

    /thread


  • #11
    Duggys Housemate
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    Yamanoto wrote: »
    westendgirlie wrote: »
    I always thought Kilkenny was a city ? :confused:

    2 main streets does not a city make.

    Royal charter me arse.

    What's the size limit for a city? None. It is to do with designation- used to be a cathedral.


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  • #12
    Randy Anders
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭Randy Anders


    For gigs and general stuff to do, Limerick is probably the worst

    Dublin being the best in that regard

    For general atmosphere and buzz, Cork and Dublin are the worst


  • #13
    Monty Burnz
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    westendgirlie wrote: »
    I always thought Kilkenny was a city ? :confused:

    MAJOR cities...I also left out Belfast and Derry. I didn't want to get to confuse folks with more than 4 choices.


  • #14
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Theres only 1 city in ireland, the rest are all large villages.


    Dublin wins!


  • #15
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    I always thought you had to have a cathedral and a population of X for city status.

    And I used the ? as I said I thought Kilkenny was. So is it or isn't it?


  • #16
    Lionel Messy
    Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    Dublin and i'm a dub. It's not even up for debate, it's the only proper metropilis, if you wanna call it that, in this country.


  • #17
    mikemac1
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    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    I didn't want to get to confuse folks with more than 4 choices.

    The OP is calling us slow

    Get 'im :mad:


  • #18
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    MAJOR cities...I also left out Belfast and Derry. I didn't want to get to confuse folks with more than 4 choices.

    Shame, I was gonna choose Kilkenny :D


  • #19
    admiralofthefleet
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    Lionel Messy wrote: »
    Dublin and i'm a dub. It's not even up for debate, it's the only proper metropilis, if you wanna call it that, in this country.

    Dublin is great, i love my city


  • #20
    mackeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭mackeire


    Waterford


  • #21
    starbelgrade
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    Limerick is the one city in Ireland that looks like the Celtic Tiger never arrived to.

    Those that think that might be a good thing obviously never lived through the 1980s.


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  • #22
    Monty Burnz
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    Galway is doing well.


  • #23
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Limerick is the one city in Ireland that looks like the Celtic Tiger never arrived to.
    Have you ever been to Ballymote? There's a committee out on the road still waiting for the horseless carriage to arrive. Although technically it's probably not a city.


  • #24
    starbelgrade
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    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    Have you ever been to Ballymote? There's a committee out on the road still waiting for the horseless carriage to arrive. Although technically it's probably not a city.

    It doesn't even appear on maps. You have to travel through a hole in time to get there.


  • #25
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Isn't Armagh a city ?


  • #26
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Hey! Leave Ballymote alone




    everybody else did


  • #27
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Kilkenny City has many streets in its city centre and has the infamous Cats Laugh festival every year. It may not match up in size compared to other cities in Ireland but it's a city nonetheless. If you don't like Kilkenny City don't come to it simple as.

    /Rant


  • #28
    Lionel Messy
    Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    Dublin is great, i love my city

    Cool, get your thanks, it's deserved. I ****ing love dublin, trust me, but there's too many kunts on drugs, for starters - from all walks of life.


  • #29
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    You left out Waterford too


  • #30
    hairyprincess
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    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    Have you ever been to Ballymote? There's a committee out on the road still waiting for the horseless carriage to arrive. Although technically it's probably not a city.

    I've heard locals calling it Remote :eek:


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  • #31
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    It doesn't even appear on maps. You have to travel through a hole in time to get there.

    Oh dear, Ballymote is in Co. Sligo. :pac:


  • #32
    Monty Burnz
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    Limerick it is, then...;)


  • #33
    Dudess
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    Limerick is the worst of the four IMO but I don't think it's an absolute dump overall. Out by UL is well swish...


  • #34
    mikemac1
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    A lot of people voting Limerick have probably never even been there

    Too busy reading scare stories from Paul Williams


  • #35
    Nothingbetter2d
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    westendgirlie wrote: »
    I always thought Kilkenny was a city ? :confused:

    so is waterford :confused:


  • #36
    Gummy Panda
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    Cork.

    Such a horrible accent


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  • #37
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Limerick is like a large halting site


  • #38
    meoklmrk91
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    Limerick will win that poll a 100 times out of 100, we can thank the media for that.


  • #39
    Dudess
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    Kilkenny City has many streets in its city centre and has the infamous Cats Laugh festival every year. It may not match up in size compared to other cities in Ireland but it's a city nonetheless. If you don't like Kilkenny City don't come to it simple as.

    /Rant
    They didn't say they didn't like it.


  • #40
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Cork.

    Such a horrible accent
    I was thinking more in terms of the architecture, the businesses there, the things to do, the atmosphere and so forth. I wouldn't have a breeze what anyone was saying to me in Stockholm, but I'd still say the city itself was nice.


  • #41
    Monty Burnz
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    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    Limerick will win that poll a 100 times out of 100, we can thank the media for that.
    Well, that and the fact that it is indeed a total dump. I speak as a man who has visited several cities - perhaps almost half a dozen.


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  • #42
    c_man
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    Limerick can be alright for a night out but I could never see myself living there.


  • #43
    grindle
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    Apart from the scrapping for lower places, wasn't this an obvious one?

    Dump-wise, I'd go:
    1.Limerick
    2.Dublin
    3.Cork
    4.Galway

    Dublin's got a lot of attractions that'd almost make me put up with the skangers and junkies, Galway's got too many culchies to appreciate the cultural side unhindered, Corks actually got more skangers than Limerick, but they're WAY less prone to violence and intimidation (maybe because the students in Cork aren't in a student ghetto?), and Limerick... has nothing, really.
    A nice country-side to escape to?


  • #44
    Monty Burnz
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    grindle wrote: »
    and Limerick... has nothing, really.
    A nice country-side to escape to?
    Indeed. But then you're facing into wicked traffic jams. I've spent many sad hours crawling around Adare.


  • #45
    mikemac1
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    141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »
    When visiting limerick i remember the 1st thing i saw was a prison to the left then a dump of a housing estate to the right :cool:

    Hope you never drive through Portlaoise so :eek:


  • #46
    dmcronin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭dmcronin


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    Theres only 1 city in ireland, the rest are all large villages.


    Dublin wins!

    The prize for being a city, a sh*tehole, or both?


  • #47
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Yeah I'm constantly amazed by how safe Cork is.

    I don't think any of them are dumps overall with no nice bits. I think Limerick centre is nicer than Galway centre tbh.


  • #48
    Jester252
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    Dudess wrote: »
    Limerick is the worst of the four IMO but I don't think it's an absolute dump overall. Out by UL is well swish...
    Lovely area but I had one of my most scary momements in limerick out my UL. Also most taught I was going to me involved in a gang land killing curse you media


  • #49
    Franticfrank
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭Franticfrank


    It isn't so bad in Limerick. Try going to the new milkmarket on a Saturday morning. Great buzz, music playing, good food. Or a rugby game in Thomond Park. I admit it was much better back in 2007/2008 when I studied there with great pubs and craic...now its alot quieter. Still not such a bad place if you give it a chance though.


  • #50
    Kev_2012
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    Galway is a bit of a knacker hole.
    Can't say too much about Cork.
    Dublin is grand for a visit, but I find the people can be ignorant and there is knackers everywhere.
    Limerick actually doesn't have as many knackers as you'd think and I find the people from Limerick and Cork the friendliest.

    Personally, having lived in Limerick and Dublin, I'd rather live in Limerick.


  • #51
    BraziliaNZ
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    I don't know why Galways is rated at all. A massive traffic jam, a square with a Supermacs, and two cobbled steets. The county is lovely though.


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