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The Worst Of Irish Towns

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  • #32
    Uncle Ben
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭Uncle Ben


    Arklow
    ballinasloex wrote: »
    Tuam!

    Says someone from Ballinasloe in their name .
    Gotta laugh!!


  • #33
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Irish towns ain't that bad.

    You'd think they were Siberian mining towns or Bangladeshi slums going by the well travelled folk around here.

    The frequent, arbitrary designation of soul (or lack of it) is also curious.


  • #34
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,542 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Longford
    anncoates wrote: »
    Ennis is quite nice, I think.

    Quite a lot of social problems for a town of its size. A lot of robberies and vandalism. Nothing in Ennis. It has a larger population than Kilkenny and has no proper shopping centre and therefore a limited selection of Shops.

    Its other Clare counterpart Shannon is worse though.


  • #35
    anncoates
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    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Quite a lot of social problems for a town of its size. A lot of robberies and vandalism. Nothing in Ennis. It has a larger population than Kilkenny and has no proper shopping centre and therefore a limited selection of Shops.

    Its other Clare counterpart Shannon is worse though.

    Sorry, you're right. I hate it.



    Am I doing this right?


  • #36
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    anncoates wrote: »
    Ennis is quite nice, I think.

    No, you have to say everywhere is horrible, that's how the thread works. Duh.


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  • #37
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Mullingar
    Leif Johnson wrote: »
    Drogheda also gets a mention. The place just feels so soulless nowadays and the last time I went up there there was dog **** on the street !

    Drogheda has actually done quite an impressive job of cleaning itself up lately to be fair.Balbriggan is dodgy,dodgy,dodgy,and this is from someone who was born and raised in the north inner city.Minor honours for Tipp town,Ennis and Tralee.
    If you want really grim however,you must set your compass north and visit delightful little places like ballymena,Coleraine,Larne or portadown to mention but a few.


  • #38
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,542 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Longford
    Dozer Dave wrote: »
    Another town bashing thread wonderful.

    I have created -"The best of Irish towns" to counter this.


  • #39
    Dr. Mantis Toboggan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Dr. Mantis Toboggan


    Dublin! Pure sh1thole, full of fcuking skobies and junkies!


  • #40
    DragonKhan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭DragonKhan


    Moate
    Red Kev wrote: »
    Edgeworthstown, Co Longford

    Granard is miles worse!


  • #41
    fricatus
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    Dr. Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    Dublin! Pure sh1thole, full of fcuking skobies and junkies!

    I was wondering how long it would take for our fine capital to be mentioned! :D


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  • #42
    anncoates
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    Dr. Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    Dublin! Pure sh1thole, full of fcuking skobies and junkies!

    They're there to keep the mullah population down. Like the gradated introduction of predators to an overfull ecosystem. :pac:


  • #43
    DragonKhan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭DragonKhan


    Moate
    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Quite a lot of social problems for a town of its size. A lot of robberies and vandalism. Nothing in Ennis. It has a larger population than Kilkenny and has no proper shopping centre and therefore a limited selection of Shops.

    Its other Clare counterpart Shannon is worse though.

    There's something really nice about Ennis IMO. No big shopping centre is no bad thing - it has a proper older style town feel to it and has some good tourist attractions too


  • #44
    Dr. Mantis Toboggan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Dr. Mantis Toboggan


    fricatus wrote: »
    I was wondering how long it would take for our fine capital to be mentioned! :D
    anncoates wrote: »
    They're there to keep the mullah population down. Like the gradated introduction of predators to an overfull ecosystem. :pac:

    I had to get my retaliation in first. :D


  • #45
    Rothko
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    Drogheda
    Corvo wrote: »
    New Ross, Co. Wexford.

    Just carpet bomb it and be done. Might even improve it.

    Another vote for New Ross here. Can't even stand passing through it.


  • #46
    Badabing
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    Wellington bridge Wexford


  • #47
    harry Bailey esq
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    Mullingar
    Carnacalla wrote: »
    I have created -"The best of Irish towns" to counter this.

    While simultaneously attending a funeral,and complaining about the heat :pac:


  • #48
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Coming from a small, nondescript Irish town, I think we all just need to accept that most towns in Ireland are small and nondescript. :)

    Architecturally they tend to be boring to downright uggo, and the boomy boom times didn't help much in that regard. Every town has some nice old buildings but just not enough of them, dammit! Nothing wrong with new builds either if they are beautiful and/or interesting.

    At least we don't see as much dyed concrete here as in the UK. Dyed concerete... no, just no. :( But the prevalent prefabricated town outskirts are really depressing an give my eyes numerous owies. I hate that this what greets us entering most towns today.


  • #49
    towelly
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    Dublin


  • #50
    imitation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭imitation


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    Manorhamilton CO Leitrim. Lived there for 2 years.

    It's like it's caught in a timewarp and has a permanent dark cloud hanging over it.

    Some nice people there, but a horrible horrible place.

    I still have to pass through it on occasion, and I do so as quickly as I possibly can.

    There was always some little fecker from manorhamilton winning something or having a birthday on the Den !


  • #51
    To Elland Back
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭To Elland Back


    Dr. Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    Dublin! Pure sh1thole, full of fcuking skobies and junkies!

    It's a City, you're lost here


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  • #52
    Wang King
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    Ennis
    Glanmire, what a hole


  • #53
    towelly
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    To Elland Back wrote: »
    It's a City, you're lost here

    Might as well be a town compared to other capital cities.


  • #54
    krustycustomer
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    New Ross
    arsevant


  • #55
    Aglomerado
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    DragonKhan wrote: »
    There's something really nice about Ennis IMO. No big shopping centre is no bad thing - it has a proper older style town feel to it and has some good tourist attractions too
    +1. Shopping centres are soulless holes that tear the heart out of a town/ city. Limerick is a good example of this. :(


  • #56
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,034 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Valetta wrote: »
    Termenfeckin.

    I spent a week there one day.
    razorblunt wrote: »
    Charleville. It's all yours Limerick.

    Lovely quotes which could be used by the Irish Tourism Board :D:D:D

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #57
    Frog Song
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭Frog Song


    Ennis
    Buttevant, Edenderry, Drogheda, Youghal, Tralee, Dundalk.


  • #58
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,217 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Mullingar
    Tipp Town. A wrecking ball would be a Godsend. Utter depressing hole.


  • #59
    jungleman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭jungleman


    Special mention to Kells, Meath. The one claim to fame the town has is the Book of Kells. Which is situated in Dublin, making Trinity College a small fortune each summer.

    The only good thing about Kells is that you can throw stones at the Cavan bus as it passes through.


  • #60
    Frog Song
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭Frog Song


    Ennis
    Just remembered three more I'd rather not have to visit again. Balbriggan, Trim and Bettystown.


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  • #61
    Xenji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,507 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    Portlaoise
    Ballina, honestly inhabited by some of the scummiest people in Ireland, also Foxford.


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