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What is the most depressing looking town in Ireland?

  • 26-07-2014 11:28PM
    #1
    John Doe1
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    I was travelling through Tipperary on my way to Kilkenny and passed a place called Clogheen which made me think i was in a time warp.

    Likewise Ballineen, Co. Cork

    Closer to my homeplace, Strabane never fails to make my eyes bleed. :P


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  • #2
    The_Pretender
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    Athy.


  • #3
    magentis
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    John Doe1 wrote: »
    I was travelling through Tipperary on my way to Kilkenny and passed a place called Clogheen which made me think i was in a time warp.

    Likewise Ballineen, Co. Cork

    Closer to my homeplace, Strabane never fails to make my eyes bleed. :P

    Donegal town is a kip to behold.


  • #4
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Ballycuntybollocks,Co. Laois.


  • #5
    John Doe1
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    magentis wrote: »
    Donegal town is a kip to behold.

    Yeah its no bastion of culture and arts like bundoran:P


  • #6
    Lucifer MorningStar
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    Westport


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  • #7
    rotun
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    Monasterevin


  • #8
    rotun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 303 ✭✭rotun


    Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »
    Westport

    o.O


  • #9
    alleystar
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    Any town in Laois or Offaly.


  • #10
    lazybones32
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    Passed through some town in Co. Galway last year and it was just miserable. Not a single redeeming quality that I remember.


  • #11
    Sir Osis of Liver.
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    Ive been to Clogheen and its a fine town with its giant famine bowl and old folks home and some other sh1t.


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  • #12
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Mullingar
    Mountmellick
    Ballymahon


  • #13
    Joe Duffy..
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    Either Longford town or Newport in Mayo, depressing looking places.


  • #14
    anncoates
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    Limerick albeit a city although I actually like it very much as a place to go out in.

    Also Drogheda and Longford.


  • #15
    mickydoomsux
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    Carlow or Athy.

    Both just utter kips full of horrible scobes.


  • #16
    Nib
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    Portarlington.

    What a shithole.


  • #17
    Hotfail.com
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    Bunratty.

    Is it even a town?


  • #18
    RayM
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    It's impossible to choose. Pretty much every town in the midlands looks identical. And everyone looks a bit like Brian Cowen. Even the women.


  • #19
    Archeron
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    Kinnegad


  • #20
    magentis
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    Ballina,
    place just sucks the life right out of you.


  • #21
    P_1
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    Balbriggan, the town was shat on from a great hight by both the FF government and Fingal County Council


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  • #22
    ErnieBert
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    Tuam is the best town in Ireland...to leave.


  • #23
    Tail Docker
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    Rosegreen Co Tipp, it is a mighty kip, and Robertstown, Co Kildare, jasus lads, it's rough. Thurles is no tidy town either.


  • #24
    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    Longford is the most abysmal dreary ****hole I've ever had the misfortune of being in.

    Others in the same category are Manorhamilton, Buncrana and knock.


  • #25
    12 element
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭12 element


    Dublin


  • #26
    beano345
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    Balbriggan a run down, rowdy kip


  • #27
    Samsgirl
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    Tipperary town. Complete hole of a place. Stuck in a time warp.


  • #28
    Littlehorny
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    Kilnaleck in Cavan, a ****hole in the middle of nowhere.... every depressing thing about a soulless Irish town is there in spades.


  • #29
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,537 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    there are alot of depressing looking towns in this area be it ballyhaunis, ballaghaderreen, boyle, castlerea but at least most have some redeeming feature be it lough key forest park or the demesne in castlerea but dunmore in county galway hasn't even that.


  • #30
    LETHAL LADY
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    Hotfail.com wrote: »
    Bunratty.

    Is it even a town?


    But what about Bunratty Castle?


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  • #31
    Davarus Walrus
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    Ballinasloe is a long town of misery. Toothless idiots huddled in pub doors smoking cigarettes; overweight teenage mothers shoving buggies around, and the association the town has with its mental hospital. "He's down in Ballinasloe as he's suffering with his nerves".


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