Your favourite and least favourite County?

Vendettaxx · 18-01-2014 08:54PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I like Galway, don't like anywhere in the North of Ireland. I married an English man, that's probably still a tarring and feathering offence in some quarters up that way.

Yup, don't come here with your feminine Engerlish husband.

Tell your gypos to stop coming up here while you're at it. You can smell them from 50 metres away.

Menas · 18-01-2014 08:56PM

I love Sligo with Galway a close second.

Cavan is my least favourite, can't understand a word they say.

SilverScreen · 18-01-2014 09:13PM

My favourite county is Kerry. Nice scenery, some nice characteristic towns and friendly people. Any time I've been down there I had no problem finding somewhere to go or something to do.

My least favourite would be Longford. Not that it's a bad place or anything, and I know plenty of people from there, but I just can't think of anything distinctive about it or anything that gives the county a bit of character. It just... exists.

Witchie · 18-01-2014 09:14PM

Fermanagh is my favourite - nothing to do with the fact that I was born there (but I never lived there!) but I do have my favourite branch of my family there. It is a stunningly beautiful place, Lough Erne is brill for boating and other watersports, the people in the town of Enniskillen are just so lovely and friendly, the shopping is great and they have some nom nom nom restaurants.

My parents are thinking of moving there and I would defo consider it too if I don't get a job in Dublin or out of Ireland when my youngest goes to Uni.

My least favourite county would be Louth but that is just coz it has Dundalk. I love Drogheda but it isn't enough to swing it for me. The Dundalk accent and general scumbaggery of the place just depresses me.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 18-01-2014 09:22PM

Fermanagh is beautiful alright, a real great place for a 'staycation', they don't get enough visitors though, I think it's one of those counties that slips peoples minds.

Santa Cruz · 18-01-2014 09:23PM

seano12 wrote: »

Tipperary not just the county but the tribalistic toolbags who can be spotted from Aughrim to Australia draped in their blue and yellow 'ShhhKoda' GAA jerseys bragging about the quality of silage and hurling they have.

Favorite would have to be Dublin especially the working class parts where people tend to help one another and have a generally superior level of openness to others.

P.S. Im not from Kilkenny

sentimental old ****e. I suppose you get pissed every weekend and start sing about Dublin in the rare old times. Have you actually lived in some of these working class parts?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 18-01-2014 09:25PM

seano12 wrote: »

Tipperary not just the county but the tribalistic toolbags who can be spotted from Aughrim to Australia draped in their blue and yellow 'ShhhKoda' GAA jerseys bragging about the quality of silage and hurling they have.

Favorite would have to be Dublin especially the working class parts where people tend to help one another and have a generally superior level of openness to others.

P.S. Im not from Kilkenny

Blue and Gold, not blue and yellow.

ArnoldJRimmer · 18-01-2014 09:27PM

I see Longford is taking a bit of a bashing in this thread, but also gets my number one as worst. Granard has to be the most depressing town in Ireland. That said, know people from there and they are really sound. Louth is second, for the Drogheda accent alone

Favourite county is Clare. Have had many great nights out there, and has a beautiful coastline. Honorable mention goes to Galway

J_E · 18-01-2014 09:28PM

I really like Kerry. Kenmare is beautiful in summer time.

Worst is Laois. Has some redeemable towns but overall, has suffered from terrible infrastructure decisions, pretty rough areas, little heritage left in the likes of Portlaoise which is just a soulless commuter town now, worse so than the likes of Naas.

CrabRevolution · 18-01-2014 09:36PM

seano12 wrote: »

Tipperary not just the county but the tribalistic toolbags who can be spotted from Aughrim to Australia draped in their blue and yellow 'ShhhKoda' GAA jerseys bragging about the quality of silage and hurling they have.

Favorite would have to be Dublin especially the working class parts where people tend to help one another and have a generally superior level of openness to others.

P.S. Im not from Kilkenny

I thought a true, true Tipp man would only be seen in a Finches jersey?

dxhound2005 · 18-01-2014 09:37PM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I love Sligo with Galway a close second.

Cavan is my least favourite, can't understand a word they say.

Listen to this a few times. You'll soon get the hang of it.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 18-01-2014 09:39PM

CrabRevolution wrote: »

I thought a true, true Tipp man would only be seen in a Finches jersey?

With the proper county crest.

nocoverart · 18-01-2014 09:46PM

In my honest opinion, I hate the whole lot of this insignificant crappy little Island of ours.

And yet when I go on holidays I miss the hell out of it!

whupdedo · 18-01-2014 09:47PM

WikiHow wrote: »

I love Cork because no matter where you are in the City you can walk around and you can say this is Cork, alot of places in the world you cannot say that.

Your right, you definitely could not walk around Paris and say this is cork

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 18-01-2014 09:58PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I like Galway, don't like anywhere in the North of Ireland. I married an English man, that's probably still a tarring and feathering offence in some quarters up that way.

You don't like the North because you think they might be peeved that you married an Englishman? FWIW, there are loads of English living up there. Most of them with their kneecaps still intact.

WikiHow wrote: »

Cork has Hillbillys*

* - its a take away, very tasty chicken.

I've heard Cork people use Hillbillys as something that's great about Cork, but they are in loads of places now!

Cienciano · 18-01-2014 10:06PM

WikiHow wrote: »

Cork has Hillbillys*

* - its a take away, very tasty chicken.

Don't pretend it's nice. Dublin has it too and it's shíte

Digital Solitude · 18-01-2014 10:06PM

CaraMay wrote: »

I like Leitrim - no pretense there and no traffic lights.

There's traffic lights, we're just too backwards to use them

Lyaiera · 18-01-2014 10:07PM

Hillbillys is awful and I love Cork.

Lardy · 18-01-2014 10:19PM

Ireland - Love Co. Claire/ Kerry... The west in general. Dislike Co. Dublin.
England - Love Cumbria and Cornwall. Dislike Lancashire (I'm a Yorkshireman

) and the Home Counties.

Pumpkinseeds · 18-01-2014 10:26PM

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

You don't like the North because you think they might be peeved that you married an Englishman? FWIW, there are loads of English living up there. Most of them with their kneecaps still intact.

I've heard Cork people use Hillbillys as something that's great about Cork, but they are in loads of places now!

It was a joke, jeez, lighten up

bodhrandude · 18-01-2014 10:36PM

I love Galway city and the county is great too, have been playing lots of sessions through the years and its still one of the best in that sense. I wish though that there was a decent gig venue to see some of the bigger artists that prefer to play Dublin all the time, plus a few more pubs with some interesting electronic music. Clare, a close second and a session thing again but unbelievable scenery too. West Cork is gorgeous and towns like Clonakilty and Kinsale are like minature Galways, a great buzz in these places.

WesternZulu · 18-01-2014 10:41PM

Like them all besides one!

Least favorite is Louth, and it'll stay like that until they learn how to talk properly.

Rabelais · 19-01-2014 12:19AM

I was born in Galway. Lived there until I was 19. It's by far the most over-rated city in Ireland. It's a small, parochial and self-satisfied place with ideas above its station.

Dublin and Cork are far finer places to eat, drink and go out in.

Nidgeweasel · 19-01-2014 01:17AM

On the assumption that you cannot vote for the county you are from I am going to pump for Galway. Galway is great, The city in particular, charming in the light of day to bananas in the dark of night. A great town with great people.

My least favourite county is unequivocally and unapologetically, Mayo. If Galway is heaven, Mayo is hell. Unless you like boggers and **** clothes.

Their senior footballers never win anything of note so we have to tolerate an annual "argha sure they nearly won it a few times wouldn't it be great if they won it now" mentality. On the topic of GAA they have delusions of grandeur and actually believe they should have won the All Ireland in 2012- lol.

It's also the part on this lovely island which spawned Enda Kenny and for that reason alone it should be excommunicated and pushed out to sea along with the E-Voting machines, The PD's, Eamonn Dunphy and James Horans ridiculous peak hat.

John Doe1 · 19-01-2014 01:23AM

I'm from Donegal and have lived in Dublin and Cork.

Best:

Although I take the piss out of my gf for being from there, my favourite county is Cork. It has a perfect mixture of industry, beautiful scenery, urban centres, good infastructure and sound people. The city is a lively if a bit drab looking place but its the towns that make it (Clonakilty, Bantry, Cobh, Kinsale, Skibereen, Youghal, Courtmacsherry). Slight negatives is that Cork people do talk about Cork a lot and firmly believe they are a different breed to Kerry people:p

I also like Kerry and Galway for the natural beauty (I'd put Donegal in here aswell if I could)

Worst:
I had to go through Monaghan to get to Dublin for 4 years and may have clouded my judgement. Monaghan Town and its bus station in particular are depressing places. Any time an incident would occcur on a bus would be someone getting on at Monaghan. The accent goes through me.

On the plus side, Glaslough seems nice.

Also, Dublin no great shakes either mostly due to the people.

Nidgeweasel · 19-01-2014 01:25AM

John Doe1 wrote: »

I'm from Donegal and have lived in Dublin and Cork.

Best:

Although I take the piss out of my gf for being from there, my favourite county is Cork. It has a perfect mixture of industry, beautiful scenery, urban centres, good infastructure and sound people. The city is a lively if a bit drab looking place but its the towns that make it (Clonakilty, Bantry, Cobh, Kinsale, Skibereen, Youghal, Courtmacsherry). Slight negatives is that Cork people do talk about Cork a lot and firmly believe they are a different breed to Kerry people:p

I also like Kerry and Galway for the natural beauty (I'd put Donegal in here aswell if I could)

Worst:
I had to go through Monaghan to get to Dublin for 4 years and may have clouded my judgement. Monaghan Town and its bus station in particular are depressing places. Any time an incident would occcur on a bus would be someone getting on at Monaghan. The accent goes through me.

On the plus side, Glaslough seems nice.

Also, Dublin no great shakes either mostly due to the people.

Monaghan people are civil, and there is no finer place in this country (in July) than Clones on Ulster final day.

sawdoubters · 19-01-2014 01:28AM

re cavan so little to do

theres lots to do fishing,golfing,lots bars

Oops69 · 19-01-2014 01:36AM

Laois , really why is it even there , pointless place , the only thing different about it was the way newsreaders pronounced it differently from the rest of us .

Oh I forgot , it had a purpose when the prison kept the IRA boys in it , but now ?

karareilly · 19-01-2014 01:40AM

dislike navan in meath ire ... like kilkenny and calgary in alberta yyc

Carawaystick · 19-01-2014 01:45AM

had a quick look over the aib me2u mobile phone website, someone linked upthread.

This is a brand new system, and AIB say it'll take less than half an hour for most payments, but may take a whole day.

If I was to pay a lad, or someone was to pay me, waiting more than 40 seconds would make it awkward in wait time.

If AIB, introducing this new system are orders of magnitudes out on the wait time , think this is progress, ya can see how they bankrupted the country and feiced us all over and dont give a crap.

Your favourite and least favourite County?

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