Ireland's grimmest place

[theticklemister]

Heaven on earth:

when was that first pic taken hardstation? Last weekend?

[Jeepers Creepers]

Waterfoot?

Rather unfortunate this one, those mingy b**tards on larne council cough up the money then this would be one of the nicest small towns in the North. Everything already in place, beach, and in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Feeling of an old deserted cowboy gold rush town an the mo.

[theticklemister]

Can't believe we've gotten this far without Ennis being mentioned. Full of emigrants, migrants, knacks, gypos, loafers, spongers, spides, weirdos, headbangers, scumbags and various others sorts of ne'er-do-wells. Avoid because it's a void.

I think yer just a f**king racist and bigot.

Thank God I don't live in the same place as ye; don't know whatye would be doing or preaching to children if this is the shite ye come out with.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Brit with no helmet on shows its age!

[Mayo4Sam]

Limerick is fine imo. Sound and friendly people and a great place to go out at night.

Charming in a very understated way.

Your a dub though, youre used to knackers, Limerick is probably an upgrade

Fair enough I suppose. You don't seem to like Dublin . Something happen to you  when you were there last. 

Got stuck living amongst them.

Oh hold on, I see what you did there..................

[Minder]

Waterfoot?

Ha, coming from someone from Strabane 

[Craigyhill Terror]

Waterfoot?

Rather unfortunate this one, those mingy b**tards on larne council cough up the money then this would be one of the nicest small towns in the North. Everything already in place, beach, and in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Feeling of an old deserted cowboy gold rush town an the mo.

Is Waterfoot not in the Moyle Council area? Anyway, Larne always seems to get a touch in threads like this and, as a native, I sort of feel honour-bound to defend it. But I can't

[BennyCake]

Craigavon. What a shithole.

[brokencrossbar1]

Craigavon. What a shithole.

Worked I lovely Legahory for a year and it brought the meaning of poverty to a whole new level!   

[theticklemister]

Craigavon. What a shithole.

Worked I lovely Legahory for a year and it brought the meaning of poverty to a whole new level!

nothing to snigger about at poverty at all; hence the use of your exclamation mark.

[brokencrossbar1]

Craigavon. What a shithole.

Worked I lovely Legahory for a year and it brought the meaning of poverty to a whole new level!

nothing to snigger about at poverty at all; hence the use of your exclamation mark.

Definitely nothing to snigger at.  It was a very grim place for people to exist in, and I would say exist as I can't imagine it was a 'life' in what you or I would call a life.

[theticklemister]

I never seen a South Armagh man dig a hole for himself as quick as ye, oh wait..........

All joking aside. Your first comment was bad, but your second was a disgrace.

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[brokencrossbar1]

I maybe have come across the wrong way.  It was a grim place to live in.  Notice that I put up life in '' .  It was a grim place to be in because of poverty and for many people they were unable to break out of the trap they were in.  They were caught in the cycle.  I am not being snobby because I worked directly with these people but to understand their existence is to compare it to what we see as the norm.  Many people are putting up places that are run down looking or have an old industrial revolution look about them as being grim.  To me walking along and seeing house after house of boarded windows and burnout houses is grimmer than anything else.  Poverty was a factor but the control over many people by a few drug lords was also a very significant factor.  Many of the houses were pulled down or partially destroyed which added to the scene of deprivation. 

[joemamas]

I'd describe the majority of NI's towns and villages as quite grim. You've got those places like Newbuildings and Dervock, in which it seems the locals are so so inbred they would happily build a 20 foot concrete wall around. Then there's the likes of Middletown, Rathfriland and Comber, which look like places time has forgot; made worse by it being an especially grey and drab period of time when they were forgotten.

Newry, Portadown, Derry, Lurgan, Omagh, Cookstown, Lisburn, Belfast. All grotty and suffer a general lack of vision, consistency and investment.

I suppose villages are a different kettle of fish, but the like of Middletown, Derrynoose, Newbuildings, Donemana, Garvagh, Fintona, Newtonstewart, Augher, Plumbridge, Coalisland would depress the life out of you if you lived there.  Its unbelievable how much nicer villages and towns down south appear, places such as Sligo, Monaghan or Castleblayney all have a bit of character to them whereas every town up north are more or less designed in that same old ugly plantation format.  Lurgan and Cookstown are two examples of this, with their big long wide main street.  Portrush has to be one of the ugliest towns about.

I think this is a relatively recent development. I grew up in Castlebar and for my teens I thought it was a hole. Now don't get me wrong, I would still argue with anyone who said their hole was better, but I still thought of it that way. The lake was a great place to go as kids but it was our secret, hidden away from the rest of the world. In the 1990s they really did a good job doing the town up and in the last 10 years the place is completely unrecognisable from the hole of my youth. They built great playgrounds for kids at the lake, completely opened it all up for everyone and created a lovely walk, run or cycle around part of the lake. I believe they are looking into connecting it to Westport and the Greenway. That would be a fantastic resource.

But if you said they have done a good job with a lot of towns/village in the south I would have to agree.

Castlebar was a right kip when I was younger, it did a great job during the boom in redeveloping.
Ballina went down hill in the 2000s and was a right kip for a long time, looks to be getting back on its feet

Swinford is depressing with not a lot going for it

Charlestown is just full of c**ts

Two years on and you are still posting complete crap, you are an embarrasment to Mayo people. When you make such disgraceful comments on a public website, you better be able to back them up.

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Ah I mightnt like all the local lads but at least you'd have time for them. Played c'town a lot underage in soccer and football for club and school and they were always a sneaky underhand shower. They had a settled traveller on the soccer team, would have been U-14/16, he was about 20 by the time the U-16 came about, no birth cert but the world and it's mother knew he was no more U-16.
Ginger Tiernan pretty much epitomises Charlestown for me

Could not let this comment go without a rebuttal.

1. Charlestown "an sneaky underhand shower" please elaborate in a gaelic football sense", if anything Charlestown's biggest criticism was that there was little or no cynicism to their game.

2. Gaelic and Soccer have zero connection in Charlestown. Most play Gaelic, the few that play soccer do not. How did you play Charlestown in underage Gaelic club games ?, have the divisonal boundries been redrawn renently.
As for a traveller playing organized sports, soccer in this case, well absolutely disgraceful, what will we have next in 2011 , Asian, Eastern Europeans, Blacks playing local sports. That comment is like saying I hate Galway football because a traveller played for their soccer team.

3. As for Ginger Teirnan, as Abbeysider said, A club legend, he epitomises everything a club and county football team needs. No need to elaborate on that.

Methinks you disdain for Charlestown lies with the 2-19 to 0-8 pt defeat you suffered from us in the 2001 county senior final,  in addition to the loss you suffered in the 2009 County senior final.

Charlestown may very well get relegated, they are suffering from the same fate as a lot of small rural clubs, lack of employment locally and renewed immigration, a fate their club were decimated from in the 1980's. Your lazy attempt to colour your disdain for them with anything related to what happened on a Gaelic football field is pretty pathetic to say the least.
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