Dodgiest places in Ireland

Zebra3 · 05-10-2012 08:21PM

Ardoyne.

admiralofthefleet · 05-10-2012 08:34PM

cloptrop wrote: »

The george pub on georges street . They all speak in a funny high pitched voice and the bingo callers are men dresseed as women . Stay away from the toilets .

what do you do if you need a piss. ive drank there and im straight, good pint of guinness.

WhatNowForUs? · 05-10-2012 08:41PM

not yet wrote: »

Your gaf....

your ma.

I took a wrong turn up in East Belfast onto a cul de sac whilst in a D reg car. The place may not have been dodgy but the situation was.

this was a good few years ago.

Lapin · 05-10-2012 08:42PM

/Thread.

The Jammy dodger · 05-10-2012 08:44PM

Enda Kenny's Office

kylith · 05-10-2012 08:45PM

Again, near Dolphin's Barn. Took a wrong turn shortly after I moved in and we found ourselves in a cul de sac. Immediately the car was surrounded by kids who pelted it with rocks, we got the hell out of there PDQ.

I've lived in the area for years now, and it's mostly grand; there's just a couple of dodgy streets.

The Jammy dodger · 05-10-2012 08:47PM

kylith wrote: »

Again, near Dolphin's Barn. Took a wrong turn shortly after I moved in and we found ourselves in a cul de sac. Immediately the car was surrounded by kids who pelted it with rocks, we got the hell out of there PDQ.

I've lived in the area for years now, and it's mostly grand; there's just a couple of dodgy streets.

ah yeah its just every now and again someone gets stabbed.

:pac:

Hazys · 05-10-2012 08:48PM

Killinaspick, Co. Tipp...dodgy to enter if you are a member of the latino community

Where To · 05-10-2012 08:55PM

Lapin wrote: »

/Thread.

I use the Sandy Row to go to the bus station or the Europa all the time, never had an ounce of bother on it.

EdanHewittt · 05-10-2012 09:14PM

The Big Smoke

areyawell · 05-10-2012 09:16PM

Tipperary, the people there are fair odd. Like the hospital in one flew over the cuckoos nest

EdanHewittt · 05-10-2012 09:25PM

Any place where the pub is empty (on a Friday night) and there's only one Lone-Ranger type sitting there at the bar...

Queue a gang of yoofs waiting for you outside with a syringe full of aids, who the lone ranger conspired with.

kylith · 05-10-2012 09:29PM

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

ah yeah its just every now and again someone gets stabbed.

:pac:

There's not lakes of blood, more like the odd puddle.

kowloon · 05-10-2012 09:30PM

Ghandee wrote: »

Let's all see who can slag Dublin the most, blah blah blah.

(thinly veiled is so last week)

Thinly veiled 'thinly veiled is getting a bit old' post.
I agree.

EdanHewittt · 05-10-2012 09:41PM

kowloon wrote: »

Thinly veiled 'thinly veiled is getting a bit old' post.
I agree.

<thinly>I love the phrase. Shame about the skobes who never use it in day-to-day life though.

</veiled>

senorwipesalot · 05-10-2012 09:44PM

Myself and two other lads got lost and broke down in a South Tipp reg car on the Shankhill in the early 90"s in the middle of the night.
We were on our way to the ferry to Scotland for work and got water in the carburetor of our Renault 5.
We just sat there bracing ourselves for the beating of our young lives when after what seemed like forever the car suddenly decided to start again.

Then to top it off on the way home a few weeks later we broke down at a British army checkpoint. FFS.
In fairness to the soldiers they gave us a push start after searching us and the car.
Fairly dodgy part of Ireland at the time.

MackQ · 06-10-2012 12:27AM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Well there's Southill in Limerick...
http://goo.gl/maps/JjSbN

"Castle Oaks View" - sounds so sophisticated - the irony!

What on earth went so badly wrong in this place...?

BillyMitchel · 06-10-2012 12:37AM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

Dolphin House, Dolphins Barn, south Dublin. Absolutely notorious

15 years ago id agree but not now, it wouldn't even come close. The drug problem is not even in the same league as it used to be.

Some places of neilstowns are pretty bad and kushlawn (sp) and fethercairn (sp) in tallaght. Not been to many other rough places to comment.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 06-10-2012 12:42AM

Certain parts of Roscrea, 'the heroin capital of Tipperary' are quite bleak. The thing I found with the people involved though is that if you keep out of their way no harm will befall you. They're smart in that regard, they don't want to draw any unnecessary attention to their business.

toodleytoo · 06-10-2012 12:49AM

Pottler wrote: »

Yup - renovated a house right beside there, was there for 8 weeks working. Oh the fun. Fist fight on day 1 with a "character who dropped in to see us", my nads used to tighten as we rounded the turn to the house, I actually came to dread it as every day was grief day. But, if you come from there, I'd say it's grand, just not the place to be a builder. I also did work on student accomodation down in Limerick City, rough bit, Foreman said "floor it as you leave the site Pottler, ok". First time I wondered why, second time I floored it. As did everyone else. Hailstones comes to mind. Little shaggers were all only 10 and 11 as well.

I think I know where you're talking about in Limerick, is it the accomodation for Limerick Senior College and LSAD? Right beside St Mary's Park? Lovely place to be working I'd say

06-10-2012 12:56AM

This area in Galway is notoriously dodgy. Have had friends that used to work in the Xtravision there and they'd tell me stories of the various knackers that'd go in there to cause trouble and look for fights.

Anyone going to Ballina or Belfast will probably have passed down this street, which is where a lot of "settled" travelers lived. I've often seen horses in those tiny box gardens.

Boombastic · 06-10-2012 01:01AM

Durrow woods

I was on my way down the country on night pulled in here as my partner needed to urinate. Sitting in my car, waiting, sorting out a cd for the rest of the way when suddenly 2 dodgy looking characters shuffled up to the car. I think they though they were going to get an eyeful of dogging

I rolled down my window a bit an shouted to my partner and off they ran

never stopped there again

It wasn't long after that vicious attack in Townley hall, freaked the sh1t out of me

cruais · 06-10-2012 02:05AM

Remmy wrote: »

Drumcondra, loike omg.

Yep, sure didn't they once have a mafia there....?!?

Naomi00 · 06-10-2012 02:10AM

toodleytoo wrote: »

I think I know where you're talking about in Limerick, is it the accomodation for Limerick Senior College and LSAD? Right beside St Mary's Park? Lovely place to be working I'd say

Which one are you talking about? I've never really heard anything bad about the LSAD student accommodation.

donegal_road · 06-10-2012 02:10AM

senorwipesalot wrote: »

Myself and two other lads got lost and broke down in a South Tipp reg car on the Shankhill in the early 90"s in the middle of the night.
We were on our way to the ferry to Scotland for work and got water in the carburetor of our Renault 5.
We just sat there bracing ourselves for the beating of our young lives when after what seemed like forever the car suddenly decided to start again.

Then to top it off on the way home a few weeks later we broke down at a British army checkpoint. FFS.
In fairness to the soldiers they gave us a push start after searching us and the car.
Fairly dodgy part of Ireland at the time.

you would be surprised, its not such a bad spot if you can have a sense of humour. Once they know your not a 'foaming at the mouth' republican, they are sound folk and will do you a turn, just avoid the hot-heads and have a few joints handy

meoklmrk91 · 06-10-2012 02:22AM

Accidentally drove into the island one day, it looked like ****ing Chechnya, caravans galore, skinny dogs running around the place, washing hanging in the front yard and on the caravans,fellas outside in vests with cans and miserable lookin wimmins in their pjs, and few curly headed Childers as well. the whole lot staring at me and the place was flithy, you'd know the street cleaners don't go in there.

I decided I had had enough at that stage, reversed in the middle the road, certainly wasn't using anyone's drive! Few seconds later I was back on safe ground and could see thomand park and kings johns castle. It was mad in fairness, how quickly a wrong turn can make you feel like your in a different country. Literally.

Tipp town is a horrible, miserable hole If a place as well, full of dirty scum.

Where To · 06-10-2012 04:22AM

donegal_road wrote: »

senorwipesalot wrote: »

Myself and two other lads got lost and broke down in a South Tipp reg car on the Shankhill in the early 90"s in the middle of the night.
We were on our way to the ferry to Scotland for work and got water in the carburetor of our Renault 5.
We just sat there bracing ourselves for the beating of our young lives when after what seemed like forever the car suddenly decided to start again.

Then to top it off on the way home a few weeks later we broke down at a British army checkpoint. FFS.
In fairness to the soldiers they gave us a push start after searching us and the car.
Fairly dodgy part of Ireland at the time.

you would be surprised, its not such a bad spot if you can have a sense of humour. Once they know your not a 'foaming at the mouth' republican, they are sound folk and will do you a turn, just avoid the hot-heads and have a few joints handy

At college I lived in a house with two lads, one from Tigers Bay and one from Ballymurphy. They got on like a house on fire at uni, then threw bricks and petrol bombs at each other in the summer, then went back to sharing a house the next year.

Moral of the story:

Belfast people are headers.

Galwayguy35 · 06-10-2012 06:53AM

Ballinasloe.

suicide_circus · 06-10-2012 07:20AM

Took the bus out to a job interview in a City West (west Dublin) industrial estate a few years back. The sprawling estates around there were pure Comanche country. Feral children, burnt out cars, gangs of marauding "jobseekers". This was right in the middle of the boom too.

suicide_circus · 06-10-2012 07:24AM

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Tipp town is a horrible, miserable hole If a place as well, full of dirty scum.

Lol is it really that bad?

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