Worst Towns in Ireland

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Originally Posted by baileban

Muinteoir - an bhfuil cead agam dul amach, mas e do thoil e??

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No feck off and sit down, bold boy :p

tbh there is a load of sh!t holes in Ireland but who cares?

Gort, what a dump.

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

...that's because we copped on ages ago that the entire cinema concept is a quaint hangover from the early 20th century. Unlike our Corkonian neighbours who keep at least one of these massive human pettrie dishes slap bang in the middle of a prime thoroughfare. You're simply matter of factually wrong on the other criticisms....

Oh Christ yeah ...we need MORE festivals, more I say, damn those who say less. :rolleyes:

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Yeah the Galway Arts Festival, Cork Jazz and Film Festivals, Dublin Theatre Festivals all terrible events that drag people into the city centre.
Imagine that having cinemas in the centre attracting people into the city to have a pint/and or a meal before heading off to the pics, what an awfully quaint 20th Century idea. :rolleyes:
As for the other facts being wrong check out the Bridgestone guide and Limerick City for restaraunts (pretty thin), as for Theatres tell me where? as for Concert venues besides the big pub Dolans again where? Where is your university located? Everything is in the suburbs.
I'm up in Limerick a lot and I know the city well and this is not just some outsider saying these things, a lot of Limerick people have the same concerns about the lack of attractions in the city centre attracting people in. There is a big fear amongst businesses in the city centre about the "doughnut" effect that is happening.

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Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy

my list of of 10 to avoid would be...Thurles

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Good call. God, Liberty Square is a pain in the hole at the best of times.

Think Longford's getting hard done by here.

Bray is like Tuam only that Bray has double deckers buses.

Carlow is another waste of space. They should replace it with a motorway.

Balinaloe is just an obstacle to slow Dubs from getting to Galway too quickly.

Shannon and Tuam. They are on a league of horrible that they deserve a category of their owm

Mind you CHarlestown in Mayo is terrible as well. Just a noisy road junciton really.

Its looks like Shannon is topping the group as worst town in Ireland.
Thats it, i'm moving across the road into Newmarket.

Aren't you in Newmarket already, did you not get the official welcome letter from the mayor.:)

Tipperary Town.
Ugly by day, dangerous by night and a complete traffic bottleneck populated by the type of person that should have the government scrambling to build a by-pass in case unsuspecting tourists happen across it by accident.

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Originally Posted by First

Aren't you in Newmarket already, did you not get the official welcome letter from the mayor.:)

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No i'm deffo in Ballycasey Shannon,not far from the home of Newtown,Newtown,tra la la,close to the border of Newmarket:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by smellyfeet

Its looks like Shannon is topping the group as worst town in Ireland.
Thats it, i'm moving across the road into Newmarket.

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Considering just how much of a cultural wasteland Shannon is, it's really surprising it is not more famous for anti-social behaviour, crime and general knackery. I guess because of the history of high employment in the town with all the industry and business around it. Which just goes to show you that if people have a secure job, they won't go nuts.

Some of the towns mentioned here have improved a lot in recent years. Tubbercurry has been improving in the last few years as has Boyle. They are not really the kips they once were anymore. Ballymote still is a kip because they put all the emphasis on building parks and rec areas around the town and forgot that the town itself is in bits. Typical Gombeenism. Put a statue of a founder of Celtic in a park outside the town and get a minsterial unveiling for the meeja, while the storm drains in towns are overflowing with ****e and **** during a rainshower.

As for the boarded -up buildings in regional towns. Not the fault of the locals in most cases. They are usually leasehold properties and some 5th generation in-bred toff in Kent owns them and is demanding ground rents from the locals, who instead of renting them or fixing them up, just by-pass the absentee landlord system and build new places. You can't blame them. Anglo-Irish aristocrats are a major problem with town renewal in this country. Even if a local owns the lease, he is discouraged from investing in the buildings restoration as Lord Snot in Kent will either demand more ground rents, or a higher sale price. This is why towns in West such as Tubbercurry and Swinford were held back for decades. Little Lord Fonteroy types looking for money for new fox hunting hounds or something.

I'm amazed at this, how do people know Ballymote so well? Seriously:confused: It's off the beating track like, did ye take a wrong turn or what?:D

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Originally Posted by DvB

The funniest thing about Sligo town is the fact the 'Town Bypass' road goes smack bang through the middle of the town, good to see someone in Sligo Co Co has a sense of humour at least!:D

Koh

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get your facts right its a inner relief road

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Originally Posted by sligoman

I'm amazed at this, how do people know Ballymote so well? Seriously:confused: It's off the beating track like, did ye take a wrong turn or what?:D

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Me mammy is from there and me granny is a resident in the nursing home beside the castle. So I know the place fairly well. Lots of nice people live there, but they have a weird concept of town renewal. Be like if DCC put statues in the Phoenix Park and left the city centre to rot.

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Originally Posted by life long red

get your facts right its a inner relief road

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and it works brilliant too. One of the best roads of it's kind of any town in the country. The parts of the town they demolished to build it were no loss.

A bus load of us went to Ballymote years ago to an underage disco. The disco was finishing up as the pubs were clearing. The beardy locals hearing there was young fellas from Sligo in the area decided to make their way down to the local hall and kick several s hites out of us. Good spot for underage pints years ago, though the locals do resemble the people from the film "The Hills have Eyes".

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Originally Posted by rebs23

As for the other facts being wrong check out the Bridgestone guide and Limerick City for restaraunts (pretty thin), as for Theatres tell me where? as for Concert venues besides the big pub Dolans again where? Where is your university located? Everything is in the suburbs.
I'm up in Limerick a lot and I know the city well and this is not just some outsider saying these things, a lot of Limerick people have the same concerns about the lack of attractions in the city centre attracting people in. There is a big fear amongst businesses in the city centre about the "doughnut" effect that is happening.

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:D

Reminds me of the time Gavin Zac was trying to convince me Limerick's riverside was run down

Btw pray tell what makes Limerick "greyer" than any other city in your experience (FFS :rolleyes:)

May I suggest the next time you're up taking your nose out of the Bridgestone guide and having a look around

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Originally Posted by rebs23

Yeah the Galway Arts Festival, Cork Jazz and Film Festivals, Dublin Theatre Festivals all terrible events that drag people into the city centre.
Imagine that having cinemas in the centre attracting people into the city to have a pint/and or a meal before heading off to the pics, what an awfully quaint 20th Century idea. :rolleyes:
As for the other facts being wrong check out the Bridgestone guide and Limerick City for restaraunts (pretty thin), as for Theatres tell me where? as for Concert venues besides the big pub Dolans again where? Where is your university located? Everything is in the suburbs.
I'm up in Limerick a lot and I know the city well and this is not just some outsider saying these things, a lot of Limerick people have the same concerns about the lack of attractions in the city centre attracting people in. There is a big fear amongst businesses in the city centre about the "doughnut" effect that is happening.

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Lets go through this, and I'll talk about Cork in relation to Limerick as I don't know Galway all that well and Dublin is the only actual city in Ireland if we're being picky about things (been out there 3 times, had a bad night 3 times).

Restaurants: I agree that Limerick isn't the best in relation to Dublin in the restaurant stakes, but Cork is not any better, so I assume Galway, Waterford etc. are the same? There are a handful of top quality restaurants in Limerick and quite a few decent ones, ditto Cork, in fact having lived in both cities I think Limerick edges Cork in quality terms as we have more decent restaurants, where as Cork's quality tends to be either Very Good and **** Poor.

Universities: Is a 15 minute bus ride out of the city, what else do you want? UCC is about the same distance from the city as LIT is, and Mary I and LSAD are practically in the centre of town. CIT on the other hand is in Mongolia

Theatres: The Millenium Theatre is over the bridge (5-10 minute drive) and UCH is that 20 minute drive we talked about, if people can't be bothered with those times tough, thats there loss.

Concert Venues: Dolans is one of the finest in the land, UCH has hosted some big concerts, and Baker Place is putting on a good few shows these days. The Castle has been used in the past for gigs and hopefully will be again as it is top quality there. In Cork you have the Savoy (which is a dump with bad sound) and where else again? The Brog serve the worst pints in Ireland and is a bad venue, and the other venue (same street as the Brog, name escapes me) is one of the worst set ups I've ever come across.

Cinema: The Kino in Cork is a good addition, albeit a cramped uncomfortable one, but the Gate is a pretty poor city centre cinema, and the Mahon Point one (despite being the best of Cork's cinemas) is in such a rough area no-one I know goes near it as the bus leaves you in the middle of a friggin council estate to walk the rest of the way. Limeick's cinemas are 15 and 10 minute drives out of the city centre respectively, again what else do you want? Thats perfectly reasonable

Festivals: Limerick has the best art festival outside of Dublin in EVA and the Riverfest weekenders are a great laugh. Cork's Jazz festival is over-rated and the film festival over-priced.

So I fail to see how Limerick is poorer in entertainment terms than Cork, and I assume Galway, Waterford etc. bar Dublin

So we have Shannon, Ballymote, Sligo, Athlone, Tuam, Carrick on Suir and Tipp Town as the worst towns in Ireland.

Somebody should set up a poll here with the top 20 and make the result official. We should include Dublin, Limerick, Cork and Galway for fairness sake!

Mods???? Any chance of poll on this?

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

I'd like to nominate Mountrath, purely because of the amount of time I get stuck there every time I drive back to Limerick

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In defense of Mounrath, it is the first place you can stop for for snacks on the way home from a match in Dublin :)
The alternative is a few petrol stations before you join the motorway but I refuse to degrade myself by trying to purchase my wares through a petrol station window :(

Worst place for me is Cork, purely for logistics. I always get lost there and invariably spend ages in a confused mess of one-ways and wrong ways and "didn't I just come from that way"s. It remains the one place on earth I actually had to go home from without ever reaching the intended destination.

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Originally Posted by jebus

Lets go through this, and I'll talk about Cork in relation to Limerick as I don't know Galway all that well and Dublin is the only actual city in Ireland if we're being picky about things (been out there 3 times, had a bad night 3 times).

Restaurants: I agree that Limerick isn't the best in relation to Dublin in the restaurant stakes, but Cork is not any better, so I assume Galway, Waterford etc. are the same? There are a handful of top quality restaurants in Limerick and quite a few decent ones, ditto Cork, in fact having lived in both cities I think Limerick edges Cork in quality terms as we have more decent restaurants, where as Cork's quality tends to be either Very Good and **** Poor.

Universities: Is a 15 minute bus ride out of the city, what else do you want? UCC is about the same distance from the city as LIT is, and Mary I and LSAD are practically in the centre of town. CIT on the other hand is in Mongolia

Theatres: The Millenium Theatre is over the bridge (5-10 minute drive) and UCH is that 20 minute drive we talked about, if people can't be bothered with those times tough, thats there loss.

Concert Venues: Dolans is one of the finest in the land, UCH has hosted some big concerts, and Baker Place is putting on a good few shows these days. The Castle has been used in the past for gigs and hopefully will be again as it is top quality there. In Cork you have the Savoy (which is a dump with bad sound) and where else again? The Brog serve the worst pints in Ireland and is a bad venue, and the other venue (same street as the Brog, name escapes me) is one of the worst set ups I've ever come across.

Cinema: The Kino in Cork is a good addition, albeit a cramped uncomfortable one, but the Gate is a pretty poor city centre cinema, and the Mahon Point one (despite being the best of Cork's cinemas) is in such a rough area no-one I know goes near it as the bus leaves you in the middle of a friggin council estate to walk the rest of the way. Limeick's cinemas are 15 and 10 minute drives out of the city centre respectively, again what else do you want? Thats perfectly reasonable

Festivals: Limerick has the best art festival outside of Dublin in EVA and the Riverfest weekenders are a great laugh. Cork's Jazz festival is over-rated and the film festival over-priced.

So I fail to see how Limerick is poorer in entertainment terms than Cork, and I assume Galway, Waterford etc. bar Dublin

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Seriously, you are truly deluded. In relation to restaraunts check the Bridgestone Guide. There is no comparison, 15 pages for Cork City for Cork County 61 pages. Cork would be pretty well known in this respect. Limerick City & County combined 8 pages.
Uni UL 15 mins bus journey, UCC at end of Washington, St city centre. 10 mins walk from Pana.
Millemiem in the LIT again well outside the city centre, UL well outside city centre. Cork the Granary, Everyman, Opera House, Cork Arts Theatre, Triskel & Firkin Crane all within 5 mins walk of Pana
Cinemas again you repeat the point about no cinemas in the city centre attracting people into the city centre.
Best Arts festival outside of Dublin, are you serious. How many actually attend EVA a visual arts festival. How about the Midsummer festival in Cork, the Galway Arts festival all of whom are mutli disciplinary arts festivals. There is just no way you can compare. Its all about making the centre of your city vibrant and attracting people in.
Face it, Limerick City centre is a wasteland of cultural activities.

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Originally Posted by rebs23

Seriously, you are truly deluded. In relation to restaraunts check the Bridgestone Guide. There is no comparison, 15 pages for Cork City for Cork County 61 pages. Cork would be pretty well known in this respect. Limerick City & County combined 8 pages.
Uni UL 15 mins bus journey, UCC at end of Washington, St city centre. 10 mins walk from Pana.
Millemiem in the LIT again well outside the city centre, UL well outside city centre. Cork the Granary, Everyman, Opera House, Cork Arts Theatre, Triskel & Firkin Crane all within 5 mins walk of Pana
Cinemas again you repeat the point about no cinemas in the city centre attracting people into the city centre.
Best Arts festival outside of Dublin, are you serious. How many actually attend EVA a visual arts festival. How about the Midsummer festival in Cork, the Galway Arts festival all of whom are mutli disciplinary arts festivals. There is just no way you can compare. Its all about making the centre of your city vibrant and attracting people in.
Face it, Limerick City centre is a wasteland of cultural activities.

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I'd like to be first to congratulate cork city and county on it's 70 odd pages of representation in the Bridgestone guide. Kudos to you. However as I only eat in one restaurant at a time I'm fairly sure I could find one in the eight pages on Limerick.

By the way ...can you tell someone who lived in Cork for three years where or what the hell the "Pana" is?

I'm not going to dis Cork because I really liked it down there (but it did make me realise just what a great town Limerick is and how much it does have going for it as well ...sometimes you do have to leave home to realise what you're leaving behind) but a lot of the things you're describing are just more of the same as what we have here ...Cinemas aside which i personnaly have no time for. The cinemas that are there do thriving business and I don't doubt enhance their areas.

That you look down your nose at EVA (as indeed some Limerick people do) is frankly your loss though. It's a great arts festival and Limerick can be proud of it. I'll just mention Unfringed as well which is one of the multi-disiplinary arts festivals you seem to prefer. It happens in february and was fantastic last year. Actually Corks finest Sultans of Ping closed it last year.
It's profile isn't as high as others but these things should be allowed grow organically -in much the same way as Wexfords Opera festival or Kilkennys Cat-laughs did.

''Pana''? jayziz boy that's taking a walk down Patrick Street, preferably with your significant other on your arm :D

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

I'd like to be first to congratulate cork city and county on it's 70 odd pages of representation in the Bridgestone guide. Kudos to you. However as I only eat in one restaurant at a time I'm fairly sure I could find one in the eight pages on Limerick.

By the way ...can you tell someone who lived in Cork for three years where or what the hell the "Pana" is?

I'm not going to dis Cork because I really liked it down there (but it did make me realise just what a great town Limerick is and how much it does have going for it as well ...sometimes you do have to leave home to realise what you're leaving behind) but a lot of the things you're describing are just more of the same as what we have here ...Cinemas aside which i personnaly have no time for. The cinemas that are there do thriving business and I don't doubt enhance their areas.

That you look down your nose at EVA (as indeed some Limerick people do) is frankly your loss though. It's a great arts festival and Limerick can be proud of it. I'll just mention Unfringed as well which is one of the multi-disiplinary arts festivals you seem to prefer. It happens in february and was fantastic last year. Actually Corks finest Sultans of Ping closed it last year.
It's profile isn't as high as others but these things should be allowed grow organically -in much the same way as Wexfords Opera festival or Kilkennys Cat-laughs did.

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Listen Limerick lads, your city has done some amazing redevelopment over the last 15 years, the most concentrated of any Irish city IMO. Some great new buildings etc but this has not been accompanied by getting people into the centre of your city too much on the outskirts/suburban areas is leading to a real problem with attracting people in and there is a limited selection of a "nighttime economy". Limerick just doesn't have the dedicated venues/theatres/cinemas/restaraunts etc that attract people into a city centre.
In fairness you can't compare one urban area with one 3 times bigger, it will just ridicule your arguments. Look at Galway a city with roughly the same population and what it posesses.

Limerick is a long way from being a tip folks, the redevelopment has been great. ;)

Millstreet for being the dullest town in the country.

tipp town also --> look at tiktoks explanation for why

Baffled as to this prejudice against Tipp Town!

Has nobody else been in Lifford?!

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Baffled as to this prejudice against Tipp Town!

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Check out times square on a Sat night and you'll see why.;)

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Baffled as to this prejudice against Tipp Town!

Has nobody else been in Lifford?!

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I have and Shay Given comes from there so it's not all bad ;)

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Originally Posted by red bellied

A bus load of us went to Ballymote years ago to an underage disco. The disco was finishing up as the pubs were clearing. The beardy locals hearing there was young fellas from Sligo in the area decided to make their way down to the local hall and kick several s hites out of us. Good spot for underage pints years ago, though the locals do resemble the people from the film "The Hills have Eyes".

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It's hilarious that you think there is such a difference between the people of a place like Ballymote to Sligo!

couldnt be bothered reading all the posts, but has Granard been mentioned?

Moate oh my god what an unbelieveable s*^&hole

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Originally Posted by gustavo

It's hilarious that you think there is such a difference between the people of a place like Ballymote to Sligo!

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cause there is gus!

flaming kip that is:D:p

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Originally Posted by bennocelt

couldnt be bothered reading all the posts, but has Granard been mentioned?

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Not sure it has, but its an awful kiphole.

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

I'd like to nominate Mountrath, purely because of the amount of time I get stuck there every time I drive back to Limerick

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Another vote for Mountrath???? :D

Sunday October 28 2007

FAI Chief executive John Delaney was involved in a car crash only hours after appearing on the Marian Finucane Show on RTE radio. In the week after sacking his second manager, Delaney was involved in a minor accident just outside Mountrath, Co Laois, shortly before 2pm.

Gardai at Portlaoise confirmed that there had been a two-car collision, where one car had gone into the back of another, but said there was only material damage caused. No one was injured in the accident.

Here are my nominations:

Castlebar
Ballina
Belmullet
Ballyhaunis
Swinford
Headford
Ballinasloe
Shannon
Enniscrone
Buncrana
Castlerea
Clara
Portlaoise
Castleblayney
Monaghan Town
Edenderry
Kildare Town
Monasteravin

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Originally Posted by Thunderblaster

Here are my nominations:

Headford

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Headford isn't a town, it's a crossroads. A damn bad crossroads at that.

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Originally Posted by gustavo

It's hilarious that you think there is such a difference between the people of a place like Ballymote to Sligo!

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Sweet Baby Jesus, the difference between people is unbelieveable. Like all the young lads from Ballyremote have an axe to grind, like they have something to prove when they come into town. Plus they are thoroughbred roasters.

As for the worst towns
-BUNDORAN, seriously that place should be wiped off the map. I dont understand why every person in Donegal hates Balleybofey when they have that tumor in its boundaries.

-Lucan, i despise it after working there for a few months. its just houseing estate after houseing estate with a few industrial estates mixed in for effect.

TBH i dont think longford is that bad, ive been to alot worse towns.

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Originally Posted by red bellied

A bus load of us went to Ballymote years ago to an underage disco. The disco was finishing up as the pubs were clearing. The beardy locals hearing there was young fellas from Sligo in the area decided to make their way down to the local hall and kick several s hites out of us. Good spot for underage pints years ago, though the locals do resemble the people from the film "The Hills have Eyes".

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its the opposite these days the knackers go out to bogger discos just to kick the sh1t out of roasters!

Cashel, what a dump.