Is Dundalk the most dangerous town in Ireland?

Xavi6 · 23-10-2012 02:50PM

Tis a rough oul part of the world alright, sure there's ex-RA heads all over the shop being a stone's throw from the division line.

Good for a night out though, and the Fairways does a decent pint.

homerjay2005 · 23-10-2012 02:52PM

Yep it is...its the most popular town in ireland for trouble.

unfortunately, i dont have any stats to back this up.

ShiverinEskimo · 23-10-2012 02:55PM

Living in and going out in Dundalk all my life.

Number of fights I've been in: 0

No better or worse than any town or city in Ireland. There's plenty of trouble if you go looking for it, but trouble rarely comes to you.

If you don't like it, stay away. The Town will survive without you like it has always done.

Tho I reckon you've never actually been judging by you thinking there's a chipper directly across from Ridleys when in fact there's a great big casino. Unless you mean poker chips maybe?

mark renton · 23-10-2012 02:55PM

Anyone wrote: »

Anyway, I lived in Dundalk for a few years, its got its fair share of scumbags, but nothing more than any other major town or city.

Since when is dundalk considered to be a major town or city??

ShiverinEskimo · 23-10-2012 02:56PM

john47832 wrote: »

Since when is dundalk considered to be a major town or city??

Since it's the largest town in Ireland apart from Drogheda.

I don't know what else could define a major town apart from being one of the biggest two.

DyldeBrill · 23-10-2012 02:58PM

Wouldn't say the most dangerous by any means.....

Up there with the smelliest tho!

gimmick · 23-10-2012 03:00PM

Roughest accent by some distance. Whether than constitutes danger I am not sure.

Flaker · 23-10-2012 03:01PM

I've been going out in that town for more than half my life and have seen about 1 fight in all that time. And I've NEVER seen anyone having a cr#p on the street. A few having a pee but that's all.

I'm usually drunk in fairness but I don't think that would make any difference as my eyes still work despite the beer goggles.

So either I've been really lucky or you were really unlucky but it's not a bad wee town in fairness.

ShiverinEskimo · 23-10-2012 03:01PM

gimmick wrote: »

Roughest accent by some distance. Whether than constitutes danger I am not sure.

I'm biased but I agree the Dundalk accent is rough as fook but the Drogheda one trumps all IMO when you take the worst examples of both.

mark renton · 23-10-2012 03:02PM

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

Since it's the largest town in Ireland apart from Drogheda.

I don't know what else could define a major town apart from being one of the biggest two.

When you say "largest" do you mean size, population, or other?

ShiverinEskimo · 23-10-2012 03:04PM

john47832 wrote: »

When you say "largest" do you mean size, population, or other?

Yea population but could well be both - people gotta live somewhere and we don't have high-rise, high-density tower blocks. Good few sprawling housing estates so it would be quite large in terms of geographical area too I reckon.

35,000 approx in Dundalk, 40,000 approx in Drogheda. Two largest towns by some distance iirc.

Edit - some linkage to back up my claims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland_by_population

The Master. · 23-10-2012 03:04PM

I found it to be quite an unwelcoming place.
its just close enough to the border to have that Northy suspiciousness you get.
It has a nice cacti display in the town hall though.

Funglegunk · 23-10-2012 03:09PM

It's a grand place for pints and the violence thing is massively exaggerated. Let's stop into the Pheonix for a pint and I'll tell ya all about it.

23-10-2012 03:13PM

GavRedKing wrote: »

You could replace Dundalk with any town/city in Ireland during a weekend and the result would be the same.

Towns and cities sure, but not the picturesque village of Kilmuckridge?

DyldeBrill · 23-10-2012 03:17PM

9959 wrote: »

Towns and cities sure, but not the picturesque village of Kilmuckridge?

ahhh i remember summers there by the beach, in that smelly caravan site!

stmol32 · 23-10-2012 03:18PM

trodsky wrote: »

After that walking to taxi rank the amount of scumbags just standing round waiting for trouble. Seen one guy defacating outside a chipper across from the nightclub on main street. Disgusting stuff.

How is this dangerous?

pom pom snaz peeler · 23-10-2012 03:19PM

Dundalk is alright IMO, its not a patch on Juarez!

DyldeBrill · 23-10-2012 03:20PM

stmol32 wrote: »

How is this dangerous?

well one might mistake this as curry sauce! one mightn't like to see it go to waste and dip a chip in.One might feel quite sick after

freddiek · 23-10-2012 03:24PM

great place to live, work, study, socialise etc. Dundalk ROCKS

Super-Rush · 23-10-2012 03:28PM

I've no idea why you thought After Hours was the right forum to complain about your experiences of a town in Louth.

Is Dundalk the most dangerous town in Ireland?

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