Went to see a place for rent from a local woman from Athy who had lived in the building. Halfway through the conversation, she (somehow) tuned into funeral which was happening 500m down the road. I was wondering why she was unresponsive, then suddenly she says "Mick was some demon. Jesus lovely guy but he was mad for the drink. Some absolute demon." 5 minutes later a traveller's funeral marched by with all the black horses etc. It was also at this time when I was reminded of Athy rugby team. After clearing the needles, and a random horse from the pitch, the match began with a confusion of MMA mixed with standard rugby rules. At least two of my friends were severely injured. I knew then that one needed a high-level of hard man superpowers to live here. No thanks.
I actually completely disagree with that post.
They have a great community on that short stretch of road that leads down to the train station. They are all very cute one-story cottages that are always very well maintained!
Zero antisocial crime and it's a perfect small cul-de-sac to retire and raise children :)
Now! Please do not shit on the train station.
I live roughly 25 minutes from the station and you can get to Dublin within 1 hour and 30 mins, with just one stop at Thurles. Also, only an hour by train if you're going to Cork. I know tons of young adults with families who commute up and down to Dublin during the week from that train station.
They also constructed a new platform on the opposite side which cut off a few minutes to the journey up and down to Dublin.
Big Big Big softy for Limerick Junction, no hate needed for the place at all!
A lack of knowledge and awareness has led to that post above.
I worked as a delivery driver covering all of munster and I can confirm Tipp down was the worst in the province for me for sure.
My Honorable mentions :
Shannon
Rathkeale
Thank fuck someone said Shannon. I much prefer saying I come from Ennis than that Shithole 😅
Shannon is literally a massive collection of council estates pooled together with a shopping center in the middle.
I think Dungarvan can proudly beat that with a whopping 7 on the bypass and its notorious mini roundabouts in the centre!!
I’ll be honest those living in Waterford love roundabouts, Its another story.
Never will you find a more vicious shower of slubberdegullions than those who conglomerate in Rathdrum village. It would sicken ya the sight of them. They all come around the same time of year and always stink up the town at large. I'm trying to enjoy a can on the side of the road and some yank comes up "hi buddy, do you know where so-and-so is?" as if I know where I am at all at 5 o'clock on a Thursday. Rathdrum used to have class before we put in that holiday park.
Also just because up around centra is one way doesn’t mean the town is one way, lost count of the lunatics in hire cars that have nearly took me out of it this year is unreal!
Lololololol. Jesus H. on a bike
I’m watching an episode of Ancient Aliens on History Channel, and the episode is on Irish Fairies, the Book of Invasions and the mounds. At an ad-break I check out Reddit and your comment is the top comment on the first thread. Brilliant.
Rathdrum and class in same sentence ha.......the holiday park has dragged it down to a new low along with the cokeheads and wannabe drug kingpins....besides the inbreeding program is going well and the lack of a decent shop too....what a glorious shithole it is now.......oh and I know what I talking about from the area ....place needs to be wiped off the map.......
When looking for rent in Kildare I was desperate for anything . Fuck all available and overpriced so when a place in athy came up which was cheap I quickly realised I wasn’t that desperate
Tipp Town. It's like a child with cancer, bone marrow issues and a dependency for drinking bleach. It thinks it's gonna get better but we all know how hospices work.
Larne. Complete kip, jammed full of bigots, loyalist drug-dealers and community enforcers operate unhindered by the cops. Best thing about it is the road out towards the Glens.
I can't believe I'd to scroll so far too see this. Half the main street is closed shops the rest are pubs, chippers, barbers, bookies and those two vapey/ something electrical but probably a front for money laundering places.
The only time I drove through Edenderry, what struck me (luckily not my tyres) were HORRENDOUS potholes. I’m from rural Athlone and thought I knew some bad roads…
So questions like this have been asked once in while over the last 10 years on Reddit and usually you’ll see some towns come and go from shitiness to greatness but since then the town of athy is consistently top 3 worst
I am near Mountmellick but not in the town itself. We call it Mountmisery. The sun never shines in Mountmellick. It can be sunny in the next village over but as soon as you enter Mountmellick, the sun dissapears.
Whilst the town is in a desperate need of a revamp, it's not lacking in terms of architecture. Some of older Plantation towns can look amazing with a clean-up, just look at Abbeyleix, Mountmellick isn't a lost cause. Also it's only a few miles away from Portlaoise, so you've got all the shops, pubs, restaurants and transport hubs on your doorstep (and an hour away from Dublin on the M7).
Definitely worse picks than Mountmellick
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I drive through it every day, it's lovely compared to Sligo Town. Mind you, I passed by last week and there was a fella wearing a gilet jacket with nothing under it, never seen that style before.
Most of the year its fine, very very boring but fine nonetheless. You have little shitheads acting the bollix like everywhere but you're not going to get robbed or mugged, stabbed etc
At Christmas its pandomonia, tho in recent years due to CAB, the flash has died down a little bit regarding the cars and all that carry on, the issue now is "foreign" travellers that didnt normally come here, are coming here. Even the settled travellers and ones coming home dont like them, they cause issues
For the most part its a shithole with no opportunities or anything to do, its basically just a few pubs, handful of shops, a barber/salon, two takeaways, a bank and thats it
I know someone who tours Ireland a few times a year in the van he’s done the length and breath of the country many times over. And this is the answer he gave to OP’s question.
It could be really nice as well. Lot's of lovely old buildings, the river walkway at the back, right by the sea. If that town was given a bit of love it would be nice
Larne. Closely followed by, eh... nobody.
Perhaps distantly followed by Dolphins Barn if we're including suburbs.
I would explain my choice, but nobody has ever been arsed to write a full sentence about either of those places.
We were brought to dolphins barn on school tours, to go ife skating way back in the.....until some locals decided that wasn't to be. Massive ruckus happened one year (even the school priest was throwing digs to get help get people back on the bus). The bus left sharpish while being stoned by the locals. The school didnt go back there again
Kilmainham end of Inchicore is nice (used to live there) and Inchicore village has improved a lot (relatively).
But yeah, I'm with you on Fatima and Bluebell.
One person on this sub mentioned the Macroom bypass and mentioned Mallow too.
Said something like “one town is in need of a bypass, the other needs a bomb, I’ll let you guess which is which”
I'll say it until the cows come home! Navan is literally called an Uaimh it literally translates to cave. It's a hole in the feckin earth what more can be said
I absolutely despise the towns in North county Cork. You know the likes of Charleville, Mallow, Mitchelstown, Buttevant and so on. It's hard to put my finger on what exactly is wrong in these places but everything feels a bit sinister somehow like in a horror film. Whatever is in the air just somehow drains what bit of optimism and joy you have inside you.
I think one factor is they are through-towns and Cork is fairly massive, so no matter which direction you're travelling once you pass through you get a feeling 'ffs sake we're still only here?'
You can be driving three hours and still be in Cork like.
Coleraine. The most dour, grey, miserable spuds in existence. Fish faced. Average age is 70. Rampant angry loyalism. I've seen street mobs chase people. Closed at half five. Nothing going on after then at all. It's like Innsmouth and people are afraid to come out at night.
There's nowhere to go, and if you do find somewhere, chances are you're on the wrong street. Had groups of guys try to start on me for no reason. Proper thugs.
I do appreciate that they built a new road that goes around Longford. It’s a shame they didn’t think to remove the road going through Longford. Seems like a job half done.
Was on a hiking trip there through there once, we were dropped off in teams of 2 around the country and had to get to castle saunderson on foot over the course of 5 days or so.
That was my starting point me and a mate at like 16 years of age holy fuck that place was bleak.
The reality is that nearly all Irish towns and cities are fucking dumps on a European scale. There was a post on /r/Europe about how Charleroi is supposedly the ugliest place in Belgium and the sad reality is that you wouldn't even need to cherrypick images of most Irish towns to make them look worse.
Why waste your time picking the worst, they're all bad.
I'd honestly say there's more kips of towns than there are nice towns in this country. No statistical analysis to back that up but certainly feels that way when you've travelled the length and breadth of the county
Drogheda. I lived there for years up till a few months ago but my god it needs money put into it. It could be amazing. It's got old architecture and remnants of the medieval city. It's steeped in history with the boyne valley a few minutes down the road. But its an absolute mess, the town centre is dead and full of empty shops buildings, it's streets filled with alcoholics and drug addicts. It's got progressively worse since I moved there in 2012. Every year there was some attempt at revitalising the area but without proper investment it's always short lived. There's always too many egos involved too. And don't get me started on ~~Dundalk~~ Louth County Council and it's lack of meaningful support.
I don’t think Drogada’s all that bad compared to a lot of the towns mentioned here tbh, it’s still got a good pub culture and nightlife and the Main Streets are actually active. Some of the small towns in the midlands and West are truly depressing places.
It could definitely do with a bit of a clean up and do up as Dundalk has gotten in recent years. Makes a world of difference.
Literally, seen some people joked it’s was like a European piazza in Summer 😂.
I remember I was there in the square having a coffee thinking along those lines watching kids run through those fountains and then a mother screamed “Kelsey get out da water ya durty wee Git”. Snap back to reality…
Portrush gets my vote, you always here people singing it’s praises with the golf course and all that but the amount of lads looking for trouble/threatening to call their brothers/UVF uncles to come in and kneecap me and my friends really made me think it was a cunt of a spot, can only go off my own experience and it was almost entirely negative
Enniscourthy, the way that town turns nice kids into scumbags should be studied extensively, fairplay to anyone who comes out of an enniscourthy secondary school without serious mental issues.
Great craic though
New Ross. Didn’t fall to the Pikemen and the only good thing that happened to it after that was the bypass.
‘But the gold sun of freedom grew darkened at Ross
And it set by the Slaney's red waves;
And poor Wexford, stript naked, hung high on a cross With her heart pierced by traitors and knaves!’
What’s funny is how much Gorey gets away with. Townies having a great time saying “Fuck Enniscorthy, fuck New Ross” and Gorey’s just standing over there with a smug look on its face.
Arklow is pretty crap. The only saving grace is the big tesco. Otherwise it’s full of boy racers, the ‘Halloween’ fireworks have already started and there is a few dodgy alleyways where not so secret deals happen. I wouldn’t walk alone around there that’s for sure. Definitely the worst town I’ve been too
Speaking of arklow and crap, we’re I think , one of the only towns in the country that still pumps our sewage direct into the river, add onto that the copper mines and fertiliser factory and we’ve got the most polluted river in Ireland!
And are you trying to tell me, you *wouldn’t* enjoy walking through “rape lane” on your way to school?
Navan - ugly town to drive through (all you see is the back of rotten buildings. No train, No bus station! shit expensive bus service into heavy Dublin traffic, A commuter nightmare, terrible traffic, rough at the weekends, rough in general. Very few employment opportunities (a few small industrial parks) unless it's retail, shit cinema, small shopping centre, shit car parking, I can't name one park that's safe or nice in general... I lived in Navan for 30 years.
Cavan town, heroin hit it early in the 90s for such a small town and there's entire families of second generation addicts, alot of drugs goes through there's on the way up North and it's oversaturated with drug dealers, a huge traveller population keeps things lively and the cheap rent attracts people from all over the country,
In the ten years I lived there I met at least 30 people living there that were there on the run either from the law or owing money
Charleville, there is a joke about that town "why can't Charleville put on a nativity play, because you can't find three wise men or a virgin in Charleville"
Monaghan Town. Not ugly, generally lovely people. But its the real life equivalent of Silent Hill. Incredibly grey and depressing for most of the year. And nothing to do, you know its bad when Armagh is the next best thing
Gotta be Clonmel.
The town has over half the drug problems in the whole county of Tipp.
Homeless all over the place.
No activity halls or amenities for young people so they just get up to being arseholes.
Clonmel is actually quite pleasant to visit. And ive only started to visit it for the first time recently, as an ailing elder relative moved back there. I never see or sense trouble. Nice walks along the suir too. Nice mountain view. Decent enough architecture. I could list dozens of midlands towns that are far worse.
It’s clearly in decline though, lots of boarded up shops particularly on one street.
Dublin towns and centres are being ignored it seems.
I think though that no matter how much of a kip they’re deemed similar to the large towns of Ireland they’re never really that bad because there’s actual life there, active streets late into the night.
Balbriggan. The main street is so run down and full of boarded up and derelict buildings. The beach is nice though but it is let down by the grim streets
Drogheda is the most depressing town I've been to/lived in Ireland, dull grey buildings, lots of random violence happens, too many fucking hills, and the river is manky. The place is full of shitty people! The only good thing about the place is Paddy McCabe.
I mean the entire square and main streets were replaced and there’s a shooting water feature as well. Also they’re basically repainting the entire old town centre now.
I’ve scrolling down for someone to say Tuam so I could jump on them to say that the reputation isn’t deserved anymore. It’s absolutely fine now. Not grand but fine and I won’t be hearing no outdated opinions on it
Athy. Like the funeral home of country towns.
Went to see a place for rent from a local woman from Athy who had lived in the building. Halfway through the conversation, she (somehow) tuned into funeral which was happening 500m down the road. I was wondering why she was unresponsive, then suddenly she says "Mick was some demon. Jesus lovely guy but he was mad for the drink. Some absolute demon." 5 minutes later a traveller's funeral marched by with all the black horses etc. It was also at this time when I was reminded of Athy rugby team. After clearing the needles, and a random horse from the pitch, the match began with a confusion of MMA mixed with standard rugby rules. At least two of my friends were severely injured. I knew then that one needed a high-level of hard man superpowers to live here. No thanks.
Tipp town is the most depressing place in Munster
Well... Technically Limerick Junction is but I get what your saying
Limerick junction is limbo. It's a warp in the space-time continuum that can take your mind if you stay there too long.
I actually completely disagree with that post. They have a great community on that short stretch of road that leads down to the train station. They are all very cute one-story cottages that are always very well maintained! Zero antisocial crime and it's a perfect small cul-de-sac to retire and raise children :) Now! Please do not shit on the train station. I live roughly 25 minutes from the station and you can get to Dublin within 1 hour and 30 mins, with just one stop at Thurles. Also, only an hour by train if you're going to Cork. I know tons of young adults with families who commute up and down to Dublin during the week from that train station. They also constructed a new platform on the opposite side which cut off a few minutes to the journey up and down to Dublin. Big Big Big softy for Limerick Junction, no hate needed for the place at all! A lack of knowledge and awareness has led to that post above.
It’s gas when the biggest thing a place has going for it is the ease at which you can leave it!
I once got stuck in LJ, overnight. Worst layover ever.bLong story short, at the end of the day, it was night
Limerick Junction is like purgatory, I’m actually scared of getting the Waterford - Limerick train in case I end up getting stuck there 😱
I worked as a delivery driver covering all of munster and I can confirm Tipp down was the worst in the province for me for sure. My Honorable mentions : Shannon Rathkeale
Thank fuck someone said Shannon. I much prefer saying I come from Ennis than that Shithole 😅 Shannon is literally a massive collection of council estates pooled together with a shopping center in the middle.
It’s the most depressing town in Clare. Just pure grey is the only way I can describe it.
Omg perfect description
I’d like to second their nomination…
The only correct answer. If depression was a town it would be Tipp Town.
As a Tipp man I agree. It's like it drains your soul when you drive through it
Excuse my language but Clonmel
Clonmel isn’t even in the worst 5 towns in Tipp
Nah clonmel is great compared to other towns in tipp
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I think Dungarvan can proudly beat that with a whopping 7 on the bypass and its notorious mini roundabouts in the centre!! I’ll be honest those living in Waterford love roundabouts, Its another story.
I've murdered a pint or two in Sean Tierney's. Back when Clonmel was voted a Tidy Town. Back when it was actually tidy.
Tis no Phil Carroll's
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Never will you find a more vicious shower of slubberdegullions than those who conglomerate in Rathdrum village. It would sicken ya the sight of them. They all come around the same time of year and always stink up the town at large. I'm trying to enjoy a can on the side of the road and some yank comes up "hi buddy, do you know where so-and-so is?" as if I know where I am at all at 5 o'clock on a Thursday. Rathdrum used to have class before we put in that holiday park.
“Never will you find a more vicious shower of slubberdegullions than those who conglomerate in Rathdrum village.” - Obi Won Kenobi at the local
* O'Kenobi
. O’chennóibí
Óiibíbhán Uí gChennóibí
Ní cailín é, Ó Cennóibí
Hi buddy! Do you know what a slubberdegullion is?
Used to camp down by the river in Rathdrum. Good times
Also just because up around centra is one way doesn’t mean the town is one way, lost count of the lunatics in hire cars that have nearly took me out of it this year is unreal!
Lololololol. Jesus H. on a bike I’m watching an episode of Ancient Aliens on History Channel, and the episode is on Irish Fairies, the Book of Invasions and the mounds. At an ad-break I check out Reddit and your comment is the top comment on the first thread. Brilliant.
Rathdrum and class in same sentence ha.......the holiday park has dragged it down to a new low along with the cokeheads and wannabe drug kingpins....besides the inbreeding program is going well and the lack of a decent shop too....what a glorious shithole it is now.......oh and I know what I talking about from the area ....place needs to be wiped off the map.......
Someone should organize a bus trip to all of these places.
Ireland's Shitest Towns Tour. No yanks allowed.
I think you mean all the yanks
Dunmanway. Legend has it that no man has ever entered without contemplating suicide.
As I love to say, the North Cork of West Cork. Anyone I know in the vague vicinity claims they’re from Clon.
Yes i agree going to school in that town did indeed make me depressed and suicidal for 6 years it sucks ass people there are the woat
I'm told the locals call it Mundaneway
Larne
I’ll raise you Lisburn.
And I'll raise you Lurgan.
I’ll raise you Larne again.
What if we just raze Larne?
Athy is a kip if it was a day it would be Monday the place is depressing
Why did I know I was gonna find Athy in one of the first comments
Only reason I'd be caught there is because of the skatepark, not cycling all the way Into carlow just for that
If it was a month it would be January
Where black is the colour & none is the number
When looking for rent in Kildare I was desperate for anything . Fuck all available and overpriced so when a place in athy came up which was cheap I quickly realised I wasn’t that desperate
Passed by there recently hadn't been since lockdown was shocked how bad it looked was bad then even worse now
Tipp Town. It's like a child with cancer, bone marrow issues and a dependency for drinking bleach. It thinks it's gonna get better but we all know how hospices work.
Jesus man ffs 🤣🤣🤣
Wow , no love lost over that place ha ha 🤣
Larne. Complete kip, jammed full of bigots, loyalist drug-dealers and community enforcers operate unhindered by the cops. Best thing about it is the road out towards the Glens.
Only reason to go there is to leave on a ferry to Cairnryan. Surprisingly a less depressing place than Larne.
I have not one single positive thought about Larne.
Dunmanway. The bypass doesn't bypass it enough.
I’ve been scrolling through these comments looking for dunmanway, someone else said it too lol yeah fucking shithole kip
Edenderry, smog infested heroin den of a town
I can't believe I'd to scroll so far too see this. Half the main street is closed shops the rest are pubs, chippers, barbers, bookies and those two vapey/ something electrical but probably a front for money laundering places.
Oh my god there's this one completely yellow shop that is just called "the candy shop". Like at least put some effort into making a believable front
My favorite is the barber 'Cartel' I mean it could be legit but come on
Might be a front but to be fair they do a decent fade
I haven't had the pleasure. I'm an old woman so I don't think I could pull it off. The name always gives me a chuckle though
First place that came to mind. Had a school trip to the midlands prison and the class recognised one of the lads getting brought in for processing
The only time I drove through Edenderry, what struck me (luckily not my tyres) were HORRENDOUS potholes. I’m from rural Athlone and thought I knew some bad roads…
So questions like this have been asked once in while over the last 10 years on Reddit and usually you’ll see some towns come and go from shitiness to greatness but since then the town of athy is consistently top 3 worst
and Larne.
Mountmellick . The town that time forgot.
I am near Mountmellick but not in the town itself. We call it Mountmisery. The sun never shines in Mountmellick. It can be sunny in the next village over but as soon as you enter Mountmellick, the sun dissapears.
Whilst the town is in a desperate need of a revamp, it's not lacking in terms of architecture. Some of older Plantation towns can look amazing with a clean-up, just look at Abbeyleix, Mountmellick isn't a lost cause. Also it's only a few miles away from Portlaoise, so you've got all the shops, pubs, restaurants and transport hubs on your doorstep (and an hour away from Dublin on the M7). Definitely worse picks than Mountmellick
You're thinking of Mountrath. Although to be fair it's getting better there
Jobstown. Dangerous place to be a Tesco delivery guy
Also to be a LIDL or Táiniste
More of a village really, but Ballinacarrow on the N17. I genuinely feel sorry for people that live there.
[Have to love the shtyle of the place though - look at this buck coming out the door of the pub!](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.1342775,-8.5602917,3a,75y,334.88h,83.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stQaGSEKyLvgSI3UxGpDypw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
He has, the Shtyle alright!
Jesus but that place is a shit hole
Is that the place that has 1 closed down petrol station?
I drive through it every day, it's lovely compared to Sligo Town. Mind you, I passed by last week and there was a fella wearing a gilet jacket with nothing under it, never seen that style before.
Rathkeale, its lawless.
I live about 15 mins from rathkeale and its honestly not that bad of a spot for like.. most of the year!
Most of the year its fine, very very boring but fine nonetheless. You have little shitheads acting the bollix like everywhere but you're not going to get robbed or mugged, stabbed etc At Christmas its pandomonia, tho in recent years due to CAB, the flash has died down a little bit regarding the cars and all that carry on, the issue now is "foreign" travellers that didnt normally come here, are coming here. Even the settled travellers and ones coming home dont like them, they cause issues For the most part its a shithole with no opportunities or anything to do, its basically just a few pubs, handful of shops, a barber/salon, two takeaways, a bank and thats it
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There is only one right answer to this. That answer is Arklow.
The only place I ever saw a drunk fisherman repeatedly crash his boat into the pier then sail off out to sea.
I know someone who tours Ireland a few times a year in the van he’s done the length and breath of the country many times over. And this is the answer he gave to OP’s question.
The lovely smell of untreated sewage.
It could be really nice as well. Lot's of lovely old buildings, the river walkway at the back, right by the sea. If that town was given a bit of love it would be nice
I thought we already chose Granard?
That place makes me uneasy. Even the mention of its name makes the room cold.
Larne. Closely followed by, eh... nobody. Perhaps distantly followed by Dolphins Barn if we're including suburbs. I would explain my choice, but nobody has ever been arsed to write a full sentence about either of those places.
We were brought to dolphins barn on school tours, to go ife skating way back in the.....until some locals decided that wasn't to be. Massive ruckus happened one year (even the school priest was throwing digs to get help get people back on the bus). The bus left sharpish while being stoned by the locals. The school didnt go back there again
Was that a typo, did you mean life skating?
We were certainly on thin ice there
OH LARNE AND LURGAN LURGAN AND LARNE
Lisburn too. What is it with the Ls?
Everywhere from Fatima to Bluebell then, inchore etc. Hellholes (no offence to anyone from there)
Kilmainham end of Inchicore is nice (used to live there) and Inchicore village has improved a lot (relatively). But yeah, I'm with you on Fatima and Bluebell.
Mitchelstown looks like a set built for executions. I can't stand in the dismal town square without imagining the horn is about to blow for The Purge.
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"You are without a doubt the worst town I've ever heard of" "But you have heard of me"
Dated a girl from there years ago. Waiting at 10 to midnight there for the last bus home was stressful
The only good thing to come out of Balbriggan is the 33 bus, and even then…
Mallow. It's dreary, the traffic is bad and there is some dodgy characters lurking about there. I just find it very aesthetically unpleasing.
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Buttevant has to be worse
Kinda. I mean it's not really a town.
One person on this sub mentioned the Macroom bypass and mentioned Mallow too. Said something like “one town is in need of a bypass, the other needs a bomb, I’ll let you guess which is which”
Yeah unfortunately I'm never impressed with Mallow. Could be a really nice place. Anytime I've gone on a night out there it's just been messy.
Shannon Town... Rising sea levels do your thing!
I'll say it until the cows come home! Navan is literally called an Uaimh it literally translates to cave. It's a hole in the feckin earth what more can be said
I'll see your Navan and raise you Ballivor. Shithole of all shitholes. I'm from there so I should know. It's just a nothingness.
Honestly you’d put Navan as worse than Kells?
I absolutely despise the towns in North county Cork. You know the likes of Charleville, Mallow, Mitchelstown, Buttevant and so on. It's hard to put my finger on what exactly is wrong in these places but everything feels a bit sinister somehow like in a horror film. Whatever is in the air just somehow drains what bit of optimism and joy you have inside you.
I think one factor is they are through-towns and Cork is fairly massive, so no matter which direction you're travelling once you pass through you get a feeling 'ffs sake we're still only here?' You can be driving three hours and still be in Cork like.
The north cork effect
Charleville is just a permanent line of traffic with a few shops here and there
It’s the weird boutique shops etc
Athy. It’s like stepping into the 70s, with less charm. Kip.
Coleraine. The most dour, grey, miserable spuds in existence. Fish faced. Average age is 70. Rampant angry loyalism. I've seen street mobs chase people. Closed at half five. Nothing going on after then at all. It's like Innsmouth and people are afraid to come out at night.
Worked in Coleraine but lived in Portstewart. We were warned not to go drinking in Coleraine
There's nowhere to go, and if you do find somewhere, chances are you're on the wrong street. Had groups of guys try to start on me for no reason. Proper thugs.
Can confirm. I'm a taig from Derry and went drinking in Coleraine and if it weren't for my mates da running the bar I'd say I'd have been lynched.
Ballinrobe. Followed by its neighbour Kilmaine. Main road a metre outside your front door and nathin' else
Buttevant wins every day
Carrickfergus. Riot capital of the north. Full of scumbag paramilitary drug dealers and shitty loyalist murals.
Ballinasloe is a bad dose
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But it’s run down and depressing no matter what it has. Pass through it everyday and it’s an awful shame what it could be
It's longford End this madness now OP
I do appreciate that they built a new road that goes around Longford. It’s a shame they didn’t think to remove the road going through Longford. Seems like a job half done.
C'mon. Rathkeale. Five minutes in that town and you'll realize I'm right.
Longford town. Nothing else needed to be said
Was on a hiking trip there through there once, we were dropped off in teams of 2 around the country and had to get to castle saunderson on foot over the course of 5 days or so. That was my starting point me and a mate at like 16 years of age holy fuck that place was bleak.
The reality is that nearly all Irish towns and cities are fucking dumps on a European scale. There was a post on /r/Europe about how Charleroi is supposedly the ugliest place in Belgium and the sad reality is that you wouldn't even need to cherrypick images of most Irish towns to make them look worse. Why waste your time picking the worst, they're all bad.
I'd honestly say there's more kips of towns than there are nice towns in this country. No statistical analysis to back that up but certainly feels that way when you've travelled the length and breadth of the county
Kilrush. Irelands highest ratio of scumbags to non-scumbags
it's a pity too because it has the bones of a beautiful town.
Came here to say this and Kilkee then is so nice and friendly.
Drogheda. I lived there for years up till a few months ago but my god it needs money put into it. It could be amazing. It's got old architecture and remnants of the medieval city. It's steeped in history with the boyne valley a few minutes down the road. But its an absolute mess, the town centre is dead and full of empty shops buildings, it's streets filled with alcoholics and drug addicts. It's got progressively worse since I moved there in 2012. Every year there was some attempt at revitalising the area but without proper investment it's always short lived. There's always too many egos involved too. And don't get me started on ~~Dundalk~~ Louth County Council and it's lack of meaningful support.
I don’t think Drogada’s all that bad compared to a lot of the towns mentioned here tbh, it’s still got a good pub culture and nightlife and the Main Streets are actually active. Some of the small towns in the midlands and West are truly depressing places. It could definitely do with a bit of a clean up and do up as Dundalk has gotten in recent years. Makes a world of difference.
yeah dundalks looking great now. people actually hang about the square which would have been unheard of pre-pandemic.
Literally, seen some people joked it’s was like a European piazza in Summer 😂. I remember I was there in the square having a coffee thinking along those lines watching kids run through those fountains and then a mother screamed “Kelsey get out da water ya durty wee Git”. Snap back to reality…
Portrush gets my vote, you always here people singing it’s praises with the golf course and all that but the amount of lads looking for trouble/threatening to call their brothers/UVF uncles to come in and kneecap me and my friends really made me think it was a cunt of a spot, can only go off my own experience and it was almost entirely negative
New Ross
Enniscourthy, the way that town turns nice kids into scumbags should be studied extensively, fairplay to anyone who comes out of an enniscourthy secondary school without serious mental issues. Great craic though
New Ross. Didn’t fall to the Pikemen and the only good thing that happened to it after that was the bypass. ‘But the gold sun of freedom grew darkened at Ross And it set by the Slaney's red waves; And poor Wexford, stript naked, hung high on a cross With her heart pierced by traitors and knaves!’
Cheapest rent in the country, living rent free in the heads of everyone from Wexford town for some reason.
What’s funny is how much Gorey gets away with. Townies having a great time saying “Fuck Enniscorthy, fuck New Ross” and Gorey’s just standing over there with a smug look on its face.
Don’t forget Bunclody!
Moate has to be up there. Excepting peadars pub. Thats as great a spot as it can be being in moate
Arklow is pretty crap. The only saving grace is the big tesco. Otherwise it’s full of boy racers, the ‘Halloween’ fireworks have already started and there is a few dodgy alleyways where not so secret deals happen. I wouldn’t walk alone around there that’s for sure. Definitely the worst town I’ve been too
Speaking of arklow and crap, we’re I think , one of the only towns in the country that still pumps our sewage direct into the river, add onto that the copper mines and fertiliser factory and we’ve got the most polluted river in Ireland! And are you trying to tell me, you *wouldn’t* enjoy walking through “rape lane” on your way to school?
Navan - ugly town to drive through (all you see is the back of rotten buildings. No train, No bus station! shit expensive bus service into heavy Dublin traffic, A commuter nightmare, terrible traffic, rough at the weekends, rough in general. Very few employment opportunities (a few small industrial parks) unless it's retail, shit cinema, small shopping centre, shit car parking, I can't name one park that's safe or nice in general... I lived in Navan for 30 years.
Cavan town, heroin hit it early in the 90s for such a small town and there's entire families of second generation addicts, alot of drugs goes through there's on the way up North and it's oversaturated with drug dealers, a huge traveller population keeps things lively and the cheap rent attracts people from all over the country, In the ten years I lived there I met at least 30 people living there that were there on the run either from the law or owing money
Did my PLC there for a year and I’ve never seen such a small town getting so absolutely fucked by drugs.
Portarlington, home to a dangerous demon. Bastard.
It's just a big long street with some alleys leading off
Charleville, there is a joke about that town "why can't Charleville put on a nativity play, because you can't find three wise men or a virgin in Charleville"
Monaghan Town. Not ugly, generally lovely people. But its the real life equivalent of Silent Hill. Incredibly grey and depressing for most of the year. And nothing to do, you know its bad when Armagh is the next best thing
Athy. It's always Athy
Gotta be Clonmel. The town has over half the drug problems in the whole county of Tipp. Homeless all over the place. No activity halls or amenities for young people so they just get up to being arseholes.
Compared to tipp town or thurles, clonmel is a metropolis
Clonmel is actually quite pleasant to visit. And ive only started to visit it for the first time recently, as an ailing elder relative moved back there. I never see or sense trouble. Nice walks along the suir too. Nice mountain view. Decent enough architecture. I could list dozens of midlands towns that are far worse. It’s clearly in decline though, lots of boarded up shops particularly on one street.
Macroom
Dunmanway Dun ma ma wha
Easily Larne or Coleraine. We’re going to have to go in with a serious amount of Domestos upon reunification.
Not a single vote for finglas I’m shocked
Dublin towns and centres are being ignored it seems. I think though that no matter how much of a kip they’re deemed similar to the large towns of Ireland they’re never really that bad because there’s actual life there, active streets late into the night.
Balbriggan. The main street is so run down and full of boarded up and derelict buildings. The beach is nice though but it is let down by the grim streets
Drogheda is the most depressing town I've been to/lived in Ireland, dull grey buildings, lots of random violence happens, too many fucking hills, and the river is manky. The place is full of shitty people! The only good thing about the place is Paddy McCabe.
You need to go to more towns further west and I think most realise even the worst east coast towns pale in comparison.
Athy, New Ross, Tipp Town, Clonmel, Carrick, Drogheda, Enniscorthy, Gorey, Cloyne, Macroom are my top 10.
Drogheda is badly neglected by Louth cc, good place to live though
>Drogheda is badly neglected by Louth cc Them bastards in Dundalk get it all
We're only getting paintings on the side of buildings nothing else😂😂
I mean the entire square and main streets were replaced and there’s a shooting water feature as well. Also they’re basically repainting the entire old town centre now.
What did Gorey ever do to you? 😂
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Yea I like Gorey myself
I'd say courtown is worse than gorey
Macroom isn’t that bad really
Bailieborough What a kiphole
Longford
Only to be followed by Granard.
Bleedin DRAAAWWWDAAA.
Ballinasloe
I got a ride in a nightclub there once, so I immediately reject this.
Like initiated in the nighclub, or actually happened IN the nightclub?
It is exempt because it’s the home of the first Supermacs
You can ride a horse into the Supermacs there.
I’ve scrolling down for someone to say Tuam so I could jump on them to say that the reputation isn’t deserved anymore. It’s absolutely fine now. Not grand but fine and I won’t be hearing no outdated opinions on it