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Most miserable and grim towns and villages in Ireland

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  • #122
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Shane Lowry broke free of the vice somehow.

    The posters are still up. For forty eight hours after he won, the town was alive though that's true. But the circus passed through quick enough.


  • #123
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,269 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Humberto Salazar wrote: »
    Clara Co Offaly. Grim.

    They used to have a kind of street market there every Sunday, most of the stuff on sale was rumoured to be stolen.


  • #124
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,799 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Rathkeale, County Limerick. Close the thread here.


  • #125
    Panda Killa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    They used to have a kind of street market there every Sunday, most of the stuff on sale was rumoured to be stolen.

    I believe the word rumoured is superfluous here


  • #126
    PCeeeee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭PCeeeee


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    The pints of cider while playing pool in a ran down pub on a Tuesday night.

    I would pay a quite considerable sum to be back drinking cider while playing pool in a run down pub next Tuesday.


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  • #127
    Spencer Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 268 ✭✭Spencer Brown


    Slim Charles wrote: »
    Winner.

    Youghal is absolutely ****e, I live 20 mins away and haven't visited in more than 20 years. Macroom as well, a soulless dump, can't wait til the bypass is finished so I can avoid it on my way to Kerry.


  • #128
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    Kilcock - Kildare
    Castledermot - Kildare
    Enfield - Meath


  • #129
    furiousox
    Registered Users Posts: 6,894 ✭✭✭furiousox


    I do a fair bit of driving with my job and Strokestown always struck me as a bit sad and run down when I passed through it.
    Nice wide main street but nearly everything in it is closed and boarded up.

    CPL 593H



  • #130
    Truckermal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    Mohill Co. Leitrim and Granard Co. Longford are still stuck in 1960 then Longford town is just a horrible place. It was a much better town twenty years ago.


  • #131
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    furiousox wrote: »
    I do a fair bit of driving with my job and Strokestown always struck me as a bit sad and run down when I passed through it.
    Nice wide main street but nearly everything in it is closed and boarded up.

    Its strikes me as the type of kip where a lot of clerical sexual abuse took place.


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  • #132
    [Deleted User]
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    I see sheep wrote: »
    Moycullen?

    Parody account.


  • #133
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm a Dub. I lived in Navan for 10 years and found it immensely depressing. Just something about it.
    I now live on the Dublin side of Drogheda, a few minutes from the beach, a few minutes from the M1, a great train service to Dublin, close to the Airport. All of that aside (of maybe because of it) there is a completely different atmosphere in Drogheda to Navan yet they're only 25 minutes apart. Far more upbeat, less squinting windows and "where did you come from?? I was a blow in in Navan, it was very clannish. In Drogheda nobody cares who you are, where you're from ... and I like that.


  • #134
    Tork
    Registered Users Posts: 3,258 ✭✭✭Tork


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    They used to have a kind of street market there every Sunday, most of the stuff on sale was rumoured to be stolen.

    The market was still going strong a few months ago when I drove past it. It isn't in the town though - it's a few miles out. Perhaps so that its shadier patrons can make a quick getaway? :pac:

    Abbeyleix got mentioned in this thread and I'm not sure why. It's an estate town and those tend to be nicer than other villages and towns.


  • #135
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I grew up in a small West of Ireland town, and am a regular visitor back to Ireland, especially during the summer months. My own town wouldn't even be a particularly awful one, by the admittedly low standards it would be compared against.

    It's the whole package of small town Irish life that fills me with horror. The lack of ambition inherent in a decision to live in one of these awful places. The nosiness, the resentment, the jealousy that emerges as your mind starts to warp during to lack of intellectual and cultural stimulation. The boarded up shops and pubs, the decay, the fading signs, the empty butcher, the sadness. Gormless looking men standing in a pub door sharing a rollie cigarette. Fat-arsed women wearing a O'Neills tracksuit pushing a trolley around the local Supervalu while two peanut-headed children follow her around. The Wrangler bootcut jeans, Superdry jackets, and checked shirts. The acceptance of 3rd world levels of dental hygiene amongst the populace. The pints of cider while playing pool in a ran down pub on a Tuesday night.

    That's a bit harsh. You're describing a minority of country people there, and those descriptions ring true for cities too. Lots of good and interesting people living in small towns and villages.


  • #136
    [Deleted User]
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm a Dub. I lived in Navan for 10 years and found it immensely depressing. Just something about it.
    I now live on the Dublin side of Drogheda, a few minutes from the beach, a few minutes from the M1, a great train service to Dublin, close to the Airport. All of that aside (of maybe because of it) there is a completely different atmosphere in Drogheda to Navan. Far more upbeat, less squinting windows and "where did you come from?? I was a blow in in Navan, it was very clannish. In Drogheda nobody cares... and I like that.

    Is Drogheda not full of knacker wars at the minute?


  • #137
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Blanch
    Tallaght
    Clondalkin
    Coolock
    Balbriggan
    Ballyfermot
    Killbarrack
    Ballymun
    Finglas


  • #138
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    That's a bit harsh. You're describing a minority of country people there, and those descriptions ring true for cities too. Lots of good and interesting people living in small towns and villages.

    It’s been a joke account for years here that runs down anything Irish. I wouldn’t pay any attention.


  • #139
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,055 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    I've driven through Ferns once or twice, always got a weird feel about the place.


  • #140
    [Deleted User]
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Is Drogheda not full of knacker wars at the minute?


    I'm on the good side of it :D....... and even they've gone quiet at the moment. They've been there for decades, a small sector, you've just got to get on with it, its a good town , almost a suburb of Dublin now.


  • #141
    Panda Killa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    beertons wrote: »
    I've driven through Ferns once or twice, always got a weird feel about the place.

    Well if you keep stopping off in that well known dogging area, what do you expect?


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  • #142
    [Deleted User]
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    Deleted User wrote: »



    I'm on the good side of it :D....... and even they've gone quiet at the moment. They've been there for decades, a small sector, you've just got to get on with it, its a good town , almost a suburb of Dublin now.

    Dundalk is nearly a suburb at this stage. I’d always said I’d never live north of the Dublin Galway line but Drogheda is one I’d look at these days.


  • #143
    Lundstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Lundstram


    Portarlington and Mountmellick are places you wouldn't live if given a free house.

    Edenderry (wtf is with the awful roads there?)

    Killala in Mayo is weirdly depressing.


  • #144
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Borris-in-Ossory

    Bus Eireann used to always stop there for a break on their Dublin Limerick route.

    A god forsaken place.


  • #145
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    tastyt wrote: »
    Blanch
    Tallaght
    Clondalkin
    Coolock
    Balbriggan
    Ballyfermot
    Killbarrack
    Ballymun
    Finglas

    What is this, a pick n mix?


  • #146
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Panda Killa wrote: »
    Ah these things always lead to parochial rubbish.....
    but having said that......



    Glanmire....kip...

    Well as someone who has Glanmire in my address and I am the fifth generation of my family to have lived there I feel I must come to it's defence. When I was young Glanmire and Riverstown were two distinct villages a mile apart, Riverstown always had a bit of a rougher reputation but due to geography (Glanmire proper had nowhere to expand) it's grown huge sucking any bit of life out of Glanmire, I remember when it had 3 shops and 3 pubs, even Glanmire post office is now in Riverstown.
    Most of the people living in Riverstown will tell you they live in Glanmire, in fact I hear the name Riverstown rarely being used these days.
    True there is little in Glanmire proper but you have to admit that the view of it from the road near the entrance to the Vienna Woods hotel with the river , steep wooded hills and church steeple is one of the prettiest villagescapes in the country.


  • #147
    Ush1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,461 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    tastyt wrote: »
    Blanch
    Tallaght
    Clondalkin
    Coolock
    Balbriggan
    Ballyfermot
    Killbarrack
    Ballymun
    Finglas

    Can only speak for Tallaght and Clondalkin as I'm most familiar with them but there is plenty of good points to both. Lots of good shops, restaurants, pubs, parks, access to the city etc...


  • #148
    Panda Killa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    Seamai wrote: »
    Well as someone who has Glanmire in my address and I am the fifth generation of my family to have lived there I feel I must come to it's defence. When I was young Glanmire and Riverstown were two distinct villages a mile apart, Riverstown always had a bit of a rougher reputation but due to geography (Glanmire proper had nowhere to expand) it's grown huge sucking any bit of life out of Glanmire, I remember when it had 3 shops and 3 pubs, even Glanmire post office is now in Riverstown.
    Most of the people living in Riverstown will tell you they live in Glanmire, in fact I hear the name Riverstown rarely being used these days.
    True there is little in Glanmire proper but you have to admit that the view of it from the road near the entrance to the Vienna Woods hotel with the river , steep wooded hills and church steeple is one of the prettiest villagescapes in the country.

    Nope..it's a kip...and full of some of the vilest people I have ever met...


  • #149
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Panda Killa wrote: »
    Nope..it's a kip...and full of some of the vilest people I have ever met...

    That's Riverstown, you've obviously never met me!


  • #150
    Dwarf.Shortage
    Registered Users Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭Dwarf.Shortage


    Spencer Brown wrote: »
    Youghal is absolutely ****e, I live 20 mins away and haven't visited in more than 20 years. Macroom as well, a soulless dump, can't wait til the bypass is finished so I can avoid it on my way to Kerry.

    How do you know so?


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  • #151
    Spencer Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 268 ✭✭Spencer Brown


    Dwarf.Shortage wrote: »
    How do you know so?

    Because unless they levelled the place in the meantime it won't have improved :pac:


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