Worst town in Ireland

Having spent a surreal evening there on a cold wet February night a few years ago - I nominate Foynes. It was like being in Deliverance. Accommodation was like the Bates Motel, everyone was pi55ed by 9.00pm (and driving!) and then some older folk came into the bar later with their kids and sat wiothout saying a word to each other or anyone. Communal sink and toilets upstairs and wardrobes from WW1 ...... with carpet that moved and hummed.

Foynes - once was even too much....

I would say drumkeerin in leitrim or falcarragh in donegal.

No it has to be Kells. One long street going nowhere with drunks everywhere also going nowhere. How they ever wrote such a beautiful book here is beyone me.

Bundoran

Ballymena

Ballymoney

Coleraine

Portadown

newtownards

larne

samin10 wrote:Bundoran

Ballymena

Ballymoney

Coleraine

Portadown

newtownards

larne

Ok - then its Bundoran. And yep thats a good call.

couldn't argue with Bundoran - a kip of the highest order if ever i seen one

on second thought Strabane must be up there too

When was the last time you were in bundoran?

johnnos bulls wrote:When was the last time you were in bundoran?

About 6 weeks ago. It's a kip

johnnos bulls wrote:When was the last time you were in bundoran?

yesterday - why ????

kells is a hole of a place nice golf course but thats it stopped at a filling station in it @ 2.30 pm on a sunny saturday in september for an ice cream and some badly needed fuel - closed nxt one on the road open was in bloody ardee!

bundoran ah the costa fortune - nothing only skangy chippers dives of night clubs and crap amusements!

johnnos bulls wrote:When was the last time you were in bundoran?

A month ago Johnnos - don't tell me they've given it a makeover?

Worst town in Ireland. What is the criteria for this?
Crime rate? Facilities (or lack thereof)? Overall appearance?

The Roscommon part of Athlone is quite dodgy.
Longford wouldn't be great but it has improved a bit.

in fairness drogheda or dundalk are bloody terrible places to go get depressed everytime i get near the kips

Ah I think Drogheda ain't a bad spot Rich. Dundalk I agree - too near the border so you have all sorts there ..... and they ain't liquorice ...

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Ah I think Drogheda ain't a bad spot Rich. Dundalk I agree - too near the border so you have all sorts there ..... and they ain't liquorice ...

there iquorice all kips

samin10 wrote:Bundoran

Ballymena

Ballymoney

Coleraine

Portadown

newtownards

larne

Apart from buncrana all of them are black holes!!

Bright-Oak wrote:

samin10 wrote:Bundoran

Ballymena

Ballymoney

Coleraine

Portadown

newtownards

larne

Apart from buncrana all of them are black holes!!

Hmmmmmmm maybe thats why he didn't include Buncrana ...

Clones. No other contenders even come close.

By the way, Ballymena is RIGHTLY famed as possibly the best "shopping" town in Ireland.

patrique wrote:Clones. No other contenders even come close.

By the way, Ballymena is RIGHTLY famed as possibly the best "shopping" town in Ireland.

hi its got a big shopping centre !

patrique wrote:Clones. No other contenders even come close.

By the way, Ballymena is RIGHTLY famed as possibly the best "shopping" town in Ireland.

is that why the turn the Christmas lights on at the end of August???????????

bocerty wrote:

is that why the turn the Christmas lights on at the end of August???????????

Mohill, Co.Leitrim is the outstanding selection in this category. It's retail center hasn't changed or received a lick of paint in my memory. The 4 publicans in Glebe St. couldn't agree in whose pub the Christmas lights would be plugged into last year, leaving the entire kip bereft of any lights. (I did it last year, there's a grandchild in mine and she won't sleep etc.)
The inherent problem is that these fookers are established there lifetimes and have the moola made.
The town also possesses a right few ne'er do wells who are before the courts on a monthly basis. One lad when up last month on his 85th disorder charge (his mother pleaded with the Judge to sent him away to hell) had a curfew imposed on him, banning him from the town between 6pm and 6am.
That night he was in the middle of the Main St. with a traffic cone on his head roaring at the Guards at 2 in the morning.

Boxtyeater wrote:

bocerty wrote:

is that why the turn the Christmas lights on at the end of August???????????

Mohill, Co.Leitrim is the outstanding selection in this category. It's retail center hasn't changed or received a lick of paint in my memory. The 4 publicans in Glebe St. couldn't agree in whose pub the Christmas lights would be plugged into last year, leaving the entire kip bereft of any lights. (I did it last year, there's a grandchild in mine and she won't sleep etc.)
The inherent problem is that these fookers are established there lifetimes and have the moola made.
The town also possesses a right few ne'er do wells who are before the courts on a monthly basis. One lad when up last month on his 85th disorder charge (his mother pleaded with the Judge to sent him away to hell) had a curfew imposed on him, banning him from the town between 6pm and 6am.
That night he was in the middle of the Main St. with a traffic cone on his head roaring at the Guards at 2 in the morning.

sounds a classy place alright Boxty

You would want to see it Boc....Time warp or what!!! Business premises abandoned, boarded up, awaiting Armageddon....

That said, Mountrath, Co. Laois is no Las Vegas.

I went to mass in Mohill once and had a cure (post Wedding on the Saturday!) afterwards in the Green something - Goose maybe? Back in 1984 I reckon my first drinking expedition with the late Da and the cure was badly needed I can tell ya!

The Green Rooster, then under the captaincy of Jim Cusack. Still in the family and a noble enough spot for pints.