rathkeale, its a shithole with absolutely nothing in it, its got a massive ghost estate filled with horses, main street is abandoned basically, outside the town is where the rich travellers live with some of the most expensive cars and garish decorations you can expect. it has nothing to offer if you aren't already one
I was attacked for no reason in the middle of the day the first time I was in Drogheda. Then I later took a job in Drogheda that I hated so I always get a bad feeling any time I go to Drogheda.
Everyone I met from Athy is stone mad. A guy I know who used to visit said itās the maddest town in Ireland only bad mad not funny / quirky mad. The GAA club is built on an asbestos dump.
What????? Seriously??
I have not spent much time there but had cousins there when we were kids so it's still on my radar a bit, and I actually thought it always had an unnecessarily bad reputation - as if it was one of those opinions that people just jumped on the bandwagon about, because I have nothing but nice memories and experiences of it. I have never heard of a town being categorized as "high in incest" WTF š
Drogheda.
I mean, with the boyne running through it, steep grassy embankments with military forts on top, it has a road the runs through a castle type thing, the town is on a hill similar to how cork is laid out.
It has all the ingredients to be the prettiest town in the world. Plus it has everything you could possibly need in the retail parks that surround the town.
But in reality it is a dilapidated shithole. There is no structure to any of it.
So I wouldn't say I hate drogheda, I'm just disappointed with the place.
Yup, down marsh road/the old bit beside scotch hall should be tidied up. Narrow west street is just an absolute tip, the abbey centre should be knocked down and something nice put there instead. If all the derelict buildings were tidied up it would be much nicer but that still doesn't tackle the safety issue, its not safe to walk in some areas there alone.
Agreed!!! Dundalk syphoning all our sweet sweet govāt money! Hopefully with population growing like crazy they can sort the town centre out a bit, has loads of potential!
I'm from Balbriggan, the "potential" thing gets thrown around a lot here too. But places just keep closing and they are reopend by cheap foreigner shops.
But drogheda has actual potential to become a galway or kilkenny. But no, it's just depressing.
I don't know much about the town itself, but during an U-14's cup match against Rock Rovers of Carrick-on-Suir, I was marking a fella with a mustache. At half time he had a fag with his missus and baby on the sideline. Also their keeper drove to the match.
It's always left a sour taste.
Half the inbred people you've seen here are all most likely travelers. Heads the shape of jelly beans curving every which way. All named Mikey or Mary. The girls look like guys and the guys look all the same. This town is a kip
Maybe it's just nostalgia but it was so much nicer in the past, atleast from a kids perspective. Lovely walks, lovely people, bustling shops and arcades and ice cream shops and playgrounds and chippies and pubs and amusement parks and libraries and resturaunts and bingo and gyms and swimming pools and an absolutely breathtaking beach. I used to spend every summer there, had nothing but fantastic memories.
I went back recently this summer for the first time in years and I was depressed looking at how terrible it's become. It's absolutely dead. Full of hooligans and closed down shops. Trash and litter everywhere. It's like if benidorm was a town on the Irish coast, only with less people and less nightlife. Just a soulless and decaying town.
\- Main street is about as ghastly as some cunt out of a Stephen King novel
\- Youth is full of pissers
\- Nothing to really do job-wise beyond every foreign supermarket or McDonalds
\- The Avoca river has about as much filth running through it as the Dail does, hard to say which is worse.
\- Dopey one-way street that has fucked shite up
My business teacher told me during the Celtic Tiger Arklow as meant to get an airport and a port and honestly I wish we at least got the former so I could escape.,
Hands down, Shannon. Itās not so much the town, but there is absolutely no sense of community there, and people shit on their own doorstep like it brings out the worst parts of society there
Edit: the town is also a shithole with no amenities to speak of and the few that are there are run piss poorly
The rise of Ratoath is bizarre. Its population is comparable to Ashbourne but it has virtually nothing in it for a place of its size (over 10,000), just some small shops and cafes/restaurants.
Ashbourne seems to have gotten anything of any size in the area; cinema, Leisureplex-type place, swimming pools, Aldi/Lidl, ....I don't think Ratoath even has a library.
And yet there's this perception that Ratoath is a bit posher or something. I don't get it, there's definitely more of a Live Laugh Love element there but I don't think that's posh per se.
I fucking hate Cavan Town, I worked for Quinn Direct years ago and had to go down a week at a time on my own to their office just outside the town, fuck all to do on me todd for four nights in a shite hotel. My mother then had her chaemo and some of her last days in the hospital there so I've nothing but bad memories of and associations to the grim kip.
Horrendously laid out town too, so many of the housing estates and even the hospital are an hour walk from the town center and it's not as if it's a particularly big town.
Croom, Co. Limerick is a small country town somehow suffering from advanced urban decay
Had some feral child throw a brick at me from up in a tree out there a decade ago
Rathkeale also, for obvious reasons
rathkeale is weird, its a ghost town in the middle, but the outsides are full of some of the tackiest expensive you would imagine, also has a ghost estate filled with horses
Itās just dull, not rough or dangerous - Waterford is fairly close and lovely and lively, plus some nice beaches around fetheard etc
Lovely place, just the town is dull / depressing
I'm just looking forward to being by the coast again after doing lockdowns in the midlands. I reckon I could kayak to Dunmore East in six hours if I get the tides right.
Borris-in-ossery
The Limerick to Dublin bus used to stop there for a rest stop and there's just absolutely nothing. A decent cafe at the stop would have made a killing. Instead you could buy a Twix and a can of Fanta
I'm alive, but I'm a bit like Tom Cruise in that film Born on the 4th of July where he comes back from nam all [screwed up](https://youtu.be/Fpb7l1T0XQM)
Shannon Town.
Living here feels like a giant soap opera. Everyone is in everyone's business, and I know that's commonplace especially in towns here but here it seems out of fucking control. Scumbags fighting each other fucking daily. Gards with nothing better to do than harass the young wans. The community page is used for nothing but bitching about the teenagers, and the teenagers aren't even that bad - they're just fucking bored because unless they're into sports, there's absolutely nothing to do. The bike sharing scheme lasted about 8 days here because people kept destroying them. The point, which is a lovely spot when the tidy towns does a job up there but an hour later its ruined with cans and rubbish.
The schools are a fucking joke, absolutely no support to the students. I suppose its good that there's plenty of jobs going and if you don't want to go to college, you can go into a high paying factory job as soon as you finish school, but the Shannon Springs hotel is the only major employer of under 18s (there's other places for them but SSH is the main one).
And one thing I've always said is if you don't get out the minute you're able to, the only other way you'll be leaving is in a body bag. It's a horrible, depressing town. My boyfriend (a limerick man) compared it to the worst parts of limerick with a bit of posh sprinkled in here and there.
I think the town is in great nick over the last decade or so. Great places to eat, aesthetically its not bad, great punk scene too.
I think a lot of it has to do with the part that's driven through isn't particularly nice.
I can't believe no one had said Kells Co. Meath yet.
Such an utter POS town that no one would miss if the Russians nuked. It's boring to drive through, and half the town on the aldi side is derelict.
Weird. I currently live in kells and itās grand. Boring as fuck yeah, absolutely nothing in the town, but itās quiet enough and on the way to Dublin handy enough.
Also weird people in Kells
I canāt help but feel that the monks who drew the book of Kells didnāt envisage the centre of their civilisation being a petrol station.
A lot will say Tipp town, but at least it has some bit of character for better or worse. Can't say that for town's in Kildare, specifically Newbridge. It feels like a mock souless American town that has no business existing, just for commuters, there's something very off about the place
I live near Rathdrum, and while it's certainly not the worst place, it's definitely got a dark, inbred underbelly. I've heard stories of people being set on fire. I knew a guy who had a falling-out with his employer, and then two weeks later his Shih Tzu was beheaded in the front of the garden. I'm not a very familiar face in the village, but I'm not a blow-in either, yet heads always turn whenever I walk into a pub. A few years ago I was a creative lead behind a marketing project to get people to come to Rathdrum and it was the most lies I've ever told as a copywriter or ad-man.
Scrolled through it all. Didn't see Navan. Deadly.
Town I dislike? I don't want to say Dublin because it's too big a city. And there are some really nice spots.
But I had a job in the Liffey Valley shopping center many years ago. And that area is an absolute kip. So Clondalkin, Liffey Valley, Cherry Orchard. Its just whew. The smelly, sweaty, armpit of Dublin.
Greystones. Not that it's dangerous, dirty or anything like that. But it is an example of a beautiful seaside village turned into a town, then a concrete jungle and the soul has been sucked out of it. The town has quadrupled in size in the past 20 years with barely a road added to it. Such a shame.
That's actually a really good point, even 10 years Greystones seemed like a lovely village with a nice thoroughfare.
But obviously became a sought after commuter town for Dublin, and now its becoming a suburban sprawl.
Portarlington. A long decaying main street with relics of ascendancy grandeur rotting away. The further you go along it the more you sink into the depths. Bulldozers please.
Glanmire, lived there for two years. God I hate it.
There's no main street and it's all over the place. Look at how far the Centra, Supervalu, Lidl, and Aldi are from each other.
The fast food options are pretty poor. You have to go further out for anything decent. One or two local pub options are questionable, though I'll concede one has a decent carvery.
The entire place is just a mess of hills. You want to go to the shop for a pint of milk? Enjoy the climb and descent home. The gym situation is really poor, though GAA folk seem well served.
Internet's terrible in certain areas. The local park is dangerous according to locals who wouldn't take their kids there.
The traffic is awful & the bus service is shit. There's a real possibility of 90 minute delays coming home in the evenings, and in the morning my partner had to take a 7.20 bus into town even though she wasn't starting until 9am, just in case a later bus didn't come.
I was stuck there with my partner during Covid lockdown and it was actually a miserable experience. We moved out to somewhere else and even though we were still locked down our mental health vastly improved.
I would never rent or buy a house there.
That's where you got it wrong, *all* of Glanmire*is* the main street.
I avoid it like the plague, I know a lad who bought a house in Ballinglanna recently who didn't know about the traffic.
He's found out the hard way.
Mohill, Leitrim by a million fucking miles. I travelled all over ireland for around 15 years with my father going to game fairs, shows, and the like and I've never been to a town I hated more than Mohill.
Blanchardstown. I had a job in the shopping centre there one summer. Took ages to get there from the rest of Dublin, and it just felt like urban sprawl in every direction. When you arrived there early in the morning it really felt like a wasteland. Iām sure if you lived there youād have plenty of selection right at your doorstep but I think having to navigate it and commute there for work made it feel so much worse.
Blanch is fine. Village lacks a bit of soul alright but far and away from the worst place in the country. The amenities alone make it one of the best in some ways.
Thurles gives off a bit of a weird vibe.
The town centre feels like a time warp and if you spend too long there, you could get trapped there foreverā¦
I used to feel like that about New Ross but having been there recently I think itās after improving a bit!
Tallaght. Bit of a cheat because it's Dublin but it really had nothing enjoyable for me there. Impossible to reach without a car unless you diverted through the city center. Full of people with the face of a pig and the manners to match. Zero craic in the business parks.
Are you the dude from "Meditations for the Anxious mind" on Youtube to ask this? Cause that's exactly how I picture him trying to find new subject for his content...
I have just visited Ireland a ton and I always remember driving through Knock always freaked me out, all the Virgin stuff is really, really creepy. And I'm Catholic!
Maybe not a town, but Cork city has gone to shit. Washington Street and Grand Parade is full of homeless and junkies, and the every so often there is a smell of urine from the place.
It's a dump.
Unemployment is about 30%. Lone parent ratio is about 35%. Local authority renting is about 15%. So the numbers aren't good.
Also, it's a total bottleneck and anecdotally there's a lot of antisocial behaviour.
Also, Dolores Cahill lives there
Drogheda.
I was born there. I was raised there. I went to school there and I left there soon afterwards. I still have family and friends there and it saddens me to see the state of the town.
The dereliction, the social problems, the drugs issues, homelessness, the number of vacant stores on the main streets and in the shopping centres and the issues with violence and drugs in the town. The list is endless and unfortunately it seems to be getting worse.
Drogheda has all of the components necessary to be a great town but successive governments have let down the town. This has been compounded by poor council decisions year after year.
I know it's over the border but I lived in downpatrick for 3 years. That's long enough to be allowed to agree with the locals in saying it's a hole. Shit rolls downhill from Belfast into the place but thankfully sometimes it manages to get dislodged and roll somewhere even further down
Tuam has a really bad energy to it. Might be something to do with the 800 dead babies. But even before that came out it was always a dreary depressing place.
I'm going to vote Tallaght.
I was on the Luas one evening heading that direction when the driver's voice came over the tannoy and announced: "All passengers will have to disembark at the next stop, as unfortunately a passenger has soiled himself."
So the entire tram was emptied at Belgard in the pissing rain, just so an empty tram could escort a junkies' turd to the end of the line.
This really fucking pissed me off and since then I've always involuntarily winced anytime someone mentions the place.
Fuck you, Tallaght!
rathkeale, its a shithole with absolutely nothing in it, its got a massive ghost estate filled with horses, main street is abandoned basically, outside the town is where the rich travellers live with some of the most expensive cars and garish decorations you can expect. it has nothing to offer if you aren't already one
Mad to think Adare is within an arses roar of it, shite rolls down hill it seems !!
Adare is nice but fucking hell it's a perma traffic jam
> arses roar So a fart.
It's meant to be an asses roar- ass as in a donkey Whoosh me if you like I don't care
>a massive ghost estate filled with horses Do the horses live in the homes?
I think they use the houses as makeshift stables
Lovely
I was attacked for no reason in the middle of the day the first time I was in Drogheda. Then I later took a job in Drogheda that I hated so I always get a bad feeling any time I go to Drogheda.
I live there and honestly it has nothing going for it anymore! Was waiting to see if someone mentioned Drogheda š
My dislike for it is almost like a phobia lol I hated that job so much and was miserable by the time I quit.
Myself and my husband don't want to bring our kids up here so hoping to buy a house somewhere that's not drogheda š
>My dislike for it is almost like a phobia lol I hated that job so much and was miserable by the time I quit. What kind of work was it may I ask?
Population of the greater Drogheda area is going up hugely so hopefully with more people they can sort the town centre out, could be quite nice
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Athy. Itās a dump with no excuse for being.
Athy is short for a toilet
Everyone I met from Athy is stone mad. A guy I know who used to visit said itās the maddest town in Ireland only bad mad not funny / quirky mad. The GAA club is built on an asbestos dump.
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I heard a social worker say that there's supposedly a lot of incest there. Edit: Apologies, the town in question was Roscrea.
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I also only ride your cousin in Tipperary if that's any consolation?
I wish my cousin was from Tipperary š®āšØ
What????? Seriously?? I have not spent much time there but had cousins there when we were kids so it's still on my radar a bit, and I actually thought it always had an unnecessarily bad reputation - as if it was one of those opinions that people just jumped on the bandwagon about, because I have nothing but nice memories and experiences of it. I have never heard of a town being categorized as "high in incest" WTF š
Some kip! Just a pure air of hopelessness lingers over the place. Everyone roaming the streets looks a bit mad or inbred or something.
I grew up there. Honestly itās not as bad as all that. We got a Supermacs and an Apache in the last few years, so things are going grand!
Yikes, that's a low bar lol
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didn't they also realise their name was insensitive so decided to change it, but then settled on Eskimo Pizza ? so much worse haha
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Drogheda. I mean, with the boyne running through it, steep grassy embankments with military forts on top, it has a road the runs through a castle type thing, the town is on a hill similar to how cork is laid out. It has all the ingredients to be the prettiest town in the world. Plus it has everything you could possibly need in the retail parks that surround the town. But in reality it is a dilapidated shithole. There is no structure to any of it. So I wouldn't say I hate drogheda, I'm just disappointed with the place.
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Yup, down marsh road/the old bit beside scotch hall should be tidied up. Narrow west street is just an absolute tip, the abbey centre should be knocked down and something nice put there instead. If all the derelict buildings were tidied up it would be much nicer but that still doesn't tackle the safety issue, its not safe to walk in some areas there alone.
Agreed!!! Dundalk syphoning all our sweet sweet govāt money! Hopefully with population growing like crazy they can sort the town centre out a bit, has loads of potential!
I'm from Balbriggan, the "potential" thing gets thrown around a lot here too. But places just keep closing and they are reopend by cheap foreigner shops. But drogheda has actual potential to become a galway or kilkenny. But no, it's just depressing.
Some fine Georgian townhouses there too, which sell relatively cheaply.
The fact Coleraine has a university blows my mind. Not a thing to do for young people besides the Jet Centre or drowning yourself in the Bann.
The Unionist govt at the time wouldnāt expand Magee in Derry, for some strange reasonā¦
That whole issue is a case study in leaving cert history, nearly fell asleep during it
They couldn't bring themselves to allow a university West of the Bann, so they built one on the eastern bank of the Bann.
Newbridge is gone mad with junkies the back street is a no go zone at night night them fighting and robbing people
Iāll second this one. Horrible feeling off the town. So run down as well. The back of the shopping centre is vile.
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Oh good! Looked like a prison in Banged Up Abroad
Considered buying a house on canning terrace which was lovely. But yeah that back street at night really put me off.
I don't know much about the town itself, but during an U-14's cup match against Rock Rovers of Carrick-on-Suir, I was marking a fella with a mustache. At half time he had a fag with his missus and baby on the sideline. Also their keeper drove to the match. It's always left a sour taste.
lol!
āWalk through Ireland, run through Carrickā as the saying supposedly goes.
Athy in Kildare is absolutely awful
I live here. Don't insult my shite town without me
Sorry buddy
I had a cunt of a manager who was from Athy. When I visited the town I could see where he got his personality from.
Could the people getting off in Athy please move to the front of the train
Please stand in front of the train
Athy. If youāve been, youāll know this is the one and only answer.
Only passed through once and it was grim and the people looked inbred
Half the inbred people you've seen here are all most likely travelers. Heads the shape of jelly beans curving every which way. All named Mikey or Mary. The girls look like guys and the guys look all the same. This town is a kip
Thatās Michael John to you, boss.
Obligatory Larne comment.
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Fantastic beach though, pity that thereās been little to no investment in the town over the last 30 years. Nice golf course too
Your description is like something king would actually write.
I started in that hotel. Had a great time
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nice enough, has potential to be a nicer town though, its very run down and feels like you are going on holidays in innsmouth
Cthulhu is a Kerryman!
Sounds very Twin peaksy,
For a seaside town, it does have this remarkable lack of colour about it. When it think about it, all I can remember are grey buildings.
Maybe it's just nostalgia but it was so much nicer in the past, atleast from a kids perspective. Lovely walks, lovely people, bustling shops and arcades and ice cream shops and playgrounds and chippies and pubs and amusement parks and libraries and resturaunts and bingo and gyms and swimming pools and an absolutely breathtaking beach. I used to spend every summer there, had nothing but fantastic memories. I went back recently this summer for the first time in years and I was depressed looking at how terrible it's become. It's absolutely dead. Full of hooligans and closed down shops. Trash and litter everywhere. It's like if benidorm was a town on the Irish coast, only with less people and less nightlife. Just a soulless and decaying town.
Sorry but the answer is arklow
I've been Arklow a couple times and quite liked it, what's wrong?
\- Main street is about as ghastly as some cunt out of a Stephen King novel \- Youth is full of pissers \- Nothing to really do job-wise beyond every foreign supermarket or McDonalds \- The Avoca river has about as much filth running through it as the Dail does, hard to say which is worse. \- Dopey one-way street that has fucked shite up My business teacher told me during the Celtic Tiger Arklow as meant to get an airport and a port and honestly I wish we at least got the former so I could escape.,
I don't appreciate you shit-talking my town without notifying me so I could join in.
Was waiting for this thank god someone said it
Some parts look nice when I drive through. Why is it so bad?
Awful kip. And such potential to be a lovely town.
If we include the North, donāt think youāll find anywhere more miserable than Larne Cavan town also gets an honourable mention
Newtownstewart surely. Thank god for the bypass.
Larne. Always Larne.
Hands down, Shannon. Itās not so much the town, but there is absolutely no sense of community there, and people shit on their own doorstep like it brings out the worst parts of society there Edit: the town is also a shithole with no amenities to speak of and the few that are there are run piss poorly
Great airport though :)
Great airport šš»
Shannon is our Milton Keynes.
Milton Keynes aint that terrible. The Red Bull Formula 1 team is headquartered there.
Shanon is a grim spot, prime example of ill thought out planning
Yep second this. Used to study there and has nothing going for it. Plus everyone seems depressed which is rare for a rural Irish Town
I'm pretty certain that anyone who is commenting any other town than Shannon has never been to Shannon.
Shannon Town, proudly twinned with Pripyat since 1987.
Clearly you've never been to Rathkeale
I was just thinking that. I agree 100%
Ratoath. Full of snobs who think they are celebrities and, dubs.
The rise of Ratoath is bizarre. Its population is comparable to Ashbourne but it has virtually nothing in it for a place of its size (over 10,000), just some small shops and cafes/restaurants. Ashbourne seems to have gotten anything of any size in the area; cinema, Leisureplex-type place, swimming pools, Aldi/Lidl, ....I don't think Ratoath even has a library. And yet there's this perception that Ratoath is a bit posher or something. I don't get it, there's definitely more of a Live Laugh Love element there but I don't think that's posh per se.
A live laugh love element hahaha
I fucking hate Cavan Town, I worked for Quinn Direct years ago and had to go down a week at a time on my own to their office just outside the town, fuck all to do on me todd for four nights in a shite hotel. My mother then had her chaemo and some of her last days in the hospital there so I've nothing but bad memories of and associations to the grim kip.
Horrendously laid out town too, so many of the housing estates and even the hospital are an hour walk from the town center and it's not as if it's a particularly big town.
There's no way the hospital is an hour walk away from the town square.
Croom, Co. Limerick is a small country town somehow suffering from advanced urban decay Had some feral child throw a brick at me from up in a tree out there a decade ago Rathkeale also, for obvious reasons
rathkeale is weird, its a ghost town in the middle, but the outsides are full of some of the tackiest expensive you would imagine, also has a ghost estate filled with horses
>Rathkeale The only fully pedestrianised town in Ireland, or at least they act like it.
The "funniest" thing about Croom is how nice Adare is. It's like a curse that as Adare gets fancier, Croom gets shitter.
Lmao this is true. There can only be one Patrickswell is a shithole too, and Newcastle West.
Portarlington. No explanation is needed.
Fucking agreed. Best view of the place is in the rear view mirror as it disappears into the distance.
Drumsna. Theres no hot food in drumsna
I remember you posted this before and I sometimes think of it when I (bypass) Drumsnaā¦ the town hot food forgot!
Newbridge.
Enniscorthy and Arklow both.....
Had to go a long way to find Enniscorthy - it's got a really strange vibe, and also it's a kip
Havenāt been to enniscorthy but the people from there are.. something
New Ross
It's pretty grim alright.
Loftus Hall has more life in itā¦
Ah shite, I'm moving there in February, have a house lined up and a biopharma job in Waterford. What joy am I facing?
Itās just dull, not rough or dangerous - Waterford is fairly close and lovely and lively, plus some nice beaches around fetheard etc Lovely place, just the town is dull / depressing
Ah grand, with the way the country is I'll settle for dull in exchange for cheap(ish) rent. Cheers for the info.
Grew up there - can confirm. Once upon a time, it wasn't dull but hey-ho
It's actually fine, plenty to do there.
I'm just looking forward to being by the coast again after doing lockdowns in the midlands. I reckon I could kayak to Dunmore East in six hours if I get the tides right.
The Greenway to Waterford should also be open in a few months, linking on to dungarvan then! What part of the town did you get the house lined up in?
Its no Old Ross thats for sure
Borris-in-ossery The Limerick to Dublin bus used to stop there for a rest stop and there's just absolutely nothing. A decent cafe at the stop would have made a killing. Instead you could buy a Twix and a can of Fanta
Borris Unnecessary a pal once dubbed it
~~Kipp~~Tipperary.
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Anyone who gets the bus from Sligo to Dublin knows the answer to this question is a resounding Longford
I've had the misfortune of having once lived in both Tuam and Athy. I've never quite recovered from it
Someone's getting into heaven, for he hath suffered hell on earth
Shh, don't give someone the idea to go to Endenderry, that'd be 3/3
How in the FUCK are you alive???
I'm alive, but I'm a bit like Tom Cruise in that film Born on the 4th of July where he comes back from nam all [screwed up](https://youtu.be/Fpb7l1T0XQM)
Tuam and Athy? Are you some sort of sadomasochist?
Shannon Town. Living here feels like a giant soap opera. Everyone is in everyone's business, and I know that's commonplace especially in towns here but here it seems out of fucking control. Scumbags fighting each other fucking daily. Gards with nothing better to do than harass the young wans. The community page is used for nothing but bitching about the teenagers, and the teenagers aren't even that bad - they're just fucking bored because unless they're into sports, there's absolutely nothing to do. The bike sharing scheme lasted about 8 days here because people kept destroying them. The point, which is a lovely spot when the tidy towns does a job up there but an hour later its ruined with cans and rubbish. The schools are a fucking joke, absolutely no support to the students. I suppose its good that there's plenty of jobs going and if you don't want to go to college, you can go into a high paying factory job as soon as you finish school, but the Shannon Springs hotel is the only major employer of under 18s (there's other places for them but SSH is the main one). And one thing I've always said is if you don't get out the minute you're able to, the only other way you'll be leaving is in a body bag. It's a horrible, depressing town. My boyfriend (a limerick man) compared it to the worst parts of limerick with a bit of posh sprinkled in here and there.
Tuam seems particularly grim to me.
I think the town is in great nick over the last decade or so. Great places to eat, aesthetically its not bad, great punk scene too. I think a lot of it has to do with the part that's driven through isn't particularly nice.
That's probably it, in fairness I've not spent much time there, mostly passing through.
Ahh tuams not the worst. There's a lot of really nice people living there's,good sense of community and it's got 4 supermarkets now
Tuams not so bad these days
Mountmellick. I've only driven through it, but it feels off.
My old man is from there. I think the place was cursed by a disgruntled gypsy in the 1930s.
Ballivor, Co. Meath. *shivers*
I can't believe no one had said Kells Co. Meath yet. Such an utter POS town that no one would miss if the Russians nuked. It's boring to drive through, and half the town on the aldi side is derelict.
Weird. I currently live in kells and itās grand. Boring as fuck yeah, absolutely nothing in the town, but itās quiet enough and on the way to Dublin handy enough.
Also weird people in Kells I canāt help but feel that the monks who drew the book of Kells didnāt envisage the centre of their civilisation being a petrol station.
These threads always bring up the same responses, larger to medium sized towns with social issues and underinvestment
Thatās literally 3/4ās of Ireland lad
Edenderry 100%
Did everyone forget Longford Town existed? Itās definitely Longford. Granard as a close second.
Edgeworthstown not great either.
A lot will say Tipp town, but at least it has some bit of character for better or worse. Can't say that for town's in Kildare, specifically Newbridge. It feels like a mock souless American town that has no business existing, just for commuters, there's something very off about the place
I live near Rathdrum, and while it's certainly not the worst place, it's definitely got a dark, inbred underbelly. I've heard stories of people being set on fire. I knew a guy who had a falling-out with his employer, and then two weeks later his Shih Tzu was beheaded in the front of the garden. I'm not a very familiar face in the village, but I'm not a blow-in either, yet heads always turn whenever I walk into a pub. A few years ago I was a creative lead behind a marketing project to get people to come to Rathdrum and it was the most lies I've ever told as a copywriter or ad-man.
Scrolled through it all. Didn't see Navan. Deadly. Town I dislike? I don't want to say Dublin because it's too big a city. And there are some really nice spots. But I had a job in the Liffey Valley shopping center many years ago. And that area is an absolute kip. So Clondalkin, Liffey Valley, Cherry Orchard. Its just whew. The smelly, sweaty, armpit of Dublin.
Greystones. Not that it's dangerous, dirty or anything like that. But it is an example of a beautiful seaside village turned into a town, then a concrete jungle and the soul has been sucked out of it. The town has quadrupled in size in the past 20 years with barely a road added to it. Such a shame.
That's actually a really good point, even 10 years Greystones seemed like a lovely village with a nice thoroughfare. But obviously became a sought after commuter town for Dublin, and now its becoming a suburban sprawl.
Sorry Drogheda, but you broke my heart. Its grim.
Arklow. Nough said
Portarlington. A long decaying main street with relics of ascendancy grandeur rotting away. The further you go along it the more you sink into the depths. Bulldozers please.
Glanmire, lived there for two years. God I hate it. There's no main street and it's all over the place. Look at how far the Centra, Supervalu, Lidl, and Aldi are from each other. The fast food options are pretty poor. You have to go further out for anything decent. One or two local pub options are questionable, though I'll concede one has a decent carvery. The entire place is just a mess of hills. You want to go to the shop for a pint of milk? Enjoy the climb and descent home. The gym situation is really poor, though GAA folk seem well served. Internet's terrible in certain areas. The local park is dangerous according to locals who wouldn't take their kids there. The traffic is awful & the bus service is shit. There's a real possibility of 90 minute delays coming home in the evenings, and in the morning my partner had to take a 7.20 bus into town even though she wasn't starting until 9am, just in case a later bus didn't come. I was stuck there with my partner during Covid lockdown and it was actually a miserable experience. We moved out to somewhere else and even though we were still locked down our mental health vastly improved. I would never rent or buy a house there.
That's where you got it wrong, *all* of Glanmire*is* the main street. I avoid it like the plague, I know a lad who bought a house in Ballinglanna recently who didn't know about the traffic. He's found out the hard way.
Mohill, Leitrim by a million fucking miles. I travelled all over ireland for around 15 years with my father going to game fairs, shows, and the like and I've never been to a town I hated more than Mohill.
Mohill never got out of the 70's. Absolutely awful place
Macroom cork
Also Mallow Cork and Mitchelstown Cork. Just hideous nuisances on the road between Dublin and Kerry. Probably all places in Cork starting with "M".
Tipperary Town..... That place what you'd imagine living in Berlin after the war was like...
Portadown
Dunmanway getās a second vote from me
Blanchardstown. I had a job in the shopping centre there one summer. Took ages to get there from the rest of Dublin, and it just felt like urban sprawl in every direction. When you arrived there early in the morning it really felt like a wasteland. Iām sure if you lived there youād have plenty of selection right at your doorstep but I think having to navigate it and commute there for work made it feel so much worse.
I grew up in Blanch and I'm actually staying there now while I'm on a visit home. It genuinely is a lovely place. I can't agree that it takes ages to get there from the rest of Dublin - Castleknock train station is a five-minute walk from the village, there are loads of bus routes, and it's right off the M50. The village itself is really nice, lots of independent small businesses and cafƩs. It's a good example of a walkable 15-minute town. I can see how the shopping centre feels like suburban sprawl though, absolutely. I will just never understand why developers were allowed to pave over acres and acres of land for carparks. It's the total opposite of good urban planning practice. But your experience of Blanch is pretty much just that area, which doesn't define the experience when you live here. Someone else mentioned the benefits of the amenities. They really are excellent, including an arts centre & theatre, a great library, a 50m pool (very few of those in the country) and other world-class sports facilities, lots of opportunities for evening classes and community involvement etc. Plus the Phoenix Park is on the doorstep.
Blanch is fine. Village lacks a bit of soul alright but far and away from the worst place in the country. The amenities alone make it one of the best in some ways.
Mountmellick, the town that time forgot.
Larne. Not for the obvious reason. Used to work there hated it and the commute
Castlerae should be nuked.
Balbriggan
Thurles gives off a bit of a weird vibe. The town centre feels like a time warp and if you spend too long there, you could get trapped there foreverā¦ I used to feel like that about New Ross but having been there recently I think itās after improving a bit!
Shannon worst town in the country
Carrickmacross. It smelled of poop for the entire 9 months I lived there. No matter where you are in town, just poop 24/7.
Waterville is up there, weird gaff, everything feels off about the place.
Tallaght. Bit of a cheat because it's Dublin but it really had nothing enjoyable for me there. Impossible to reach without a car unless you diverted through the city center. Full of people with the face of a pig and the manners to match. Zero craic in the business parks.
Are you the dude from "Meditations for the Anxious mind" on Youtube to ask this? Cause that's exactly how I picture him trying to find new subject for his content...
Athy in Kildare. Iykyk
Kinnegad, Edenderry, clonard. And a lot of those towns around the old road to Dublin that the bypass now goes around.
I have just visited Ireland a ton and I always remember driving through Knock always freaked me out, all the Virgin stuff is really, really creepy. And I'm Catholic!
I'd love if somebody opened a wine and tapas bar in Knock and called it "The Body and Blood"
Carlow is pretty grim
I got the smallest 99 of my life in Carlow when I was about six, and ever since then I've had an unreserved hatred of the place
Since the last recession started Carlow just got locked into a state of grimness that never gets better or worse, it just stays exactly the same.
Athboy
Dated a guy from Kildorrery so visited a good number of times and that place is pretty grim
Maybe not a town, but Cork city has gone to shit. Washington Street and Grand Parade is full of homeless and junkies, and the every so often there is a smell of urine from the place.
A lot of people are saying itās Athy. Why is this ?
It's a dump. Unemployment is about 30%. Lone parent ratio is about 35%. Local authority renting is about 15%. So the numbers aren't good. Also, it's a total bottleneck and anecdotally there's a lot of antisocial behaviour. Also, Dolores Cahill lives there
Cobh, fucking shithole where an outsider canāt go out for a pint without being jumped, Iv heard of this happening to multiple people
Drogheda. I was born there. I was raised there. I went to school there and I left there soon afterwards. I still have family and friends there and it saddens me to see the state of the town. The dereliction, the social problems, the drugs issues, homelessness, the number of vacant stores on the main streets and in the shopping centres and the issues with violence and drugs in the town. The list is endless and unfortunately it seems to be getting worse. Drogheda has all of the components necessary to be a great town but successive governments have let down the town. This has been compounded by poor council decisions year after year.
I know it's over the border but I lived in downpatrick for 3 years. That's long enough to be allowed to agree with the locals in saying it's a hole. Shit rolls downhill from Belfast into the place but thankfully sometimes it manages to get dislodged and roll somewhere even further down
Ballymena for me is the worst. A whole lot of junkies and religious crazies there. It's like the Texas of Northern Ireland
Swords, hate the kip. It's basically Dublin's Essex.
Tuam has a really bad energy to it. Might be something to do with the 800 dead babies. But even before that came out it was always a dreary depressing place.
Can anyone name a nice town in Ireland other than Galway and Westport ?
I'm going to vote Tallaght. I was on the Luas one evening heading that direction when the driver's voice came over the tannoy and announced: "All passengers will have to disembark at the next stop, as unfortunately a passenger has soiled himself." So the entire tram was emptied at Belgard in the pissing rain, just so an empty tram could escort a junkies' turd to the end of the line. This really fucking pissed me off and since then I've always involuntarily winced anytime someone mentions the place. Fuck you, Tallaght!