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Originally posted by irishmufc irishmufc wrote:

Originally posted by newrygreen newrygreen wrote:

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Cant believe people think Warrenpoint is nice Thumbs Down


Huh?

I was never in Warrenpoint.


Count yourself lucky LOL
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Borris in Carlow is nice as is Isistioge in KK. None of them particularly big though. Passed through Rostrevor once and it looked decent enough.
I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.
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Lads there's nothing in Warrenpoint, great pizza place is all I like about it.

Rostrevor is the nicest town in that area in my view.. Lovely spot. Going to punt for my hometown, Downpatrick.. Where St Patrick is buried men!

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Portnamock or Howth,I personally love personally Portnamock


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Originally posted by SByrne24 SByrne24 wrote:

Lads there's nothing in Warrenpoint, great pizza place is all I like about it.

Rostrevor is the nicest town in that area in my view.. Lovely spot. Going to punt for my hometown, Downpatrick.. Where St Patrick is buried men!

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Portnamock or Howth,I personally love personally Portnamock



You sure you're not thinking of Malahide instead of Portmarnock?
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Originally posted by The Huntacha The Huntacha wrote:

Originally posted by SByrne24 SByrne24 wrote:

Lads there's nothing in Warrenpoint, great pizza place is all I like about it.

Rostrevor is the nicest town in that area in my view.. Lovely spot. Going to punt for my hometown, Downpatrick.. Where St Patrick is buried men!

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Portnamock or Howth,I personally love personally Portnamock



You sure you're not thinking of Malahide instead of Portmarnock?


Nope... 100% sure on Portnamock, stayed in the hotel a number of times now great spot. Mallahide is nice to
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You must be the only man on the planet who prefers Portmarnock to Malahide
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Originally posted by Newryrep Newryrep wrote:

I like warrenpoint summers day outside the whistle down looking out onto the bay with bottles of krombacher

In fact the whistledown/krombacher combination is on my occasional cycle route

will have to keep an eye out for you next time im on the bike that way, was actually there on sunday but went on to greencastle

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Originally posted by SByrne24 SByrne24 wrote:

Lads there's nothing in Warrenpoint, great pizza place is all I like about it.

Rostrevor is the nicest town in that area in my view.. Lovely spot. Going to punt for my hometown, Downpatrick.. Where St Patrick is buried men!

Cong
Portnamock or Howth,I personally love personally Portnamock



Downpatrick and nice don't really go in the same sentence together IMO
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I agree RB, went to school in Downpatrick. Nothing nice about it haha
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I agree RB, went to school in Downpatrick. Nothing nice about it haha

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Originally posted by SByrne24 SByrne24 wrote:

Originally posted by The Huntacha The Huntacha wrote:

Originally posted by SByrne24 SByrne24 wrote:

Lads there's nothing in Warrenpoint, great pizza place is all I like about it.

Rostrevor is the nicest town in that area in my view.. Lovely spot. Going to punt for my hometown, Downpatrick.. Where St Patrick is buried men!

Cong
Portnamock or Howth,I personally love personally Portnamock




You sure you're not thinking of Malahide instead of Portmarnock?



Nope... 100% sure on Portnamock, stayed in the hotel a number of times now great spot. Mallahide is nice to


Its Portmarnock buddy.

Malahide is head and shoulders above Portmarnock imo
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Originally posted by Deane Deane wrote:

I agree RB, went to school in Downpatrick. Nothing nice about it haha


Hey... come on now.... We've St Patricks first chapel and grave site.. surely thats all you need 
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Originally posted by SByrne24 SByrne24 wrote:

Originally posted by Deane Deane wrote:

I agree RB, went to school in Downpatrick. Nothing nice about it haha



Hey... come on now.... We've St Patricks first chapel and grave site.. surely thats all you need 


I'll give you that. It's nice up at St Pats grave. Generally though I am not a huge fan of the town although it's not bad for shopping and one or two spots do good grub.
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Downpatrick? The town with the Flying Horse? Hmmmmm.
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SD I seriously dont know what that lad is on if he's proclaiming it a nice town, yes its nice in scenic terms, the whole South Down area is for that matter BUT dpk got infested around the late 90's with housing executive sh*ts from west belfast who having been put of their own estates for being wee sh*ts had to be relocated somewhere else, dpk or more precisely the flying horse was one such estate to benefit from this.

I would class a nice town as one with decent amenities, good pubs, shops/places to attract families and not to bad traffic(I fkn hate traffic so am including it in my list) - dpk is gridlocked most days from 5-6, near impossible to get around it on a saturday and friday afternoon. The fact there is probably only 1 decent bar in the place out of about 14 says it all and most dont even drink in it as its a bit out of the way and beside a sh*t hole of another bar. Someone mentioned the shops Wacko aside from an Asda there's fuk all else in the place.

I think its best summed up by the fact there's something like 35 fast food/takeaways/eating establishments in the town(population almost 11k going by wiki) and the only decent place to eat among them is the cricket club.

In short, nice town to drive in the direction of but then take the coastal routes if into scenery etc, and avoid if possible - go to Newcastle while again not having decent pubs and usually gridlocked, there's at least stuff to do there on a day out(once you actually get parked). 

Though dpk has a great racecourse and its a mile or 2 out of town so any visitors dont really have to visit the town itself  (unless coming from belfast LOL)
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Big fan of the last Monday in August races in Downpatrick. Good reason to visit but it's only one day a year (although I suppose there are a few more meetings a year). My dad is from just outside there and I have plenty of relatives who live about there although they all live in the countryside.

The town on the other hand wouldn't be top of my list. Sure, it's a nicer town than Dungannon (closest decent size town to my home) but it's hardly in the top ten towns in the North. I'd have Enniskillen, Armagh, Derry, Newcastle, Portstewart, Cookstown, Ballycastle and Castlederg above it and that's just off the top of my head. I suppose I could easily name worse towns in the North (Kilkeel, Bangor, Comber, Newtownards, Ballynahinch and Banbridge are all worse and all in County Down, never mind the North) but I still wouldn't have Downpatrick on a list of nicest towns in Ireland.

Although it does have that railway museum.....
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