Kinsale

Killarney (not on rally weekend though)

Dingle

Lahinch

Midleton

All those in no particular order.

Hard to find a decent pub anywhere anymore. Traffic is bad on sunny days aye haha. You can not deny it is easy on the eye though. 

Good man yourself 

Never particularly noticed it until you said it, but yes, yer right. The one outside it that separates the town/Abbeyside from the Cork road, fair enough. The one at Fraher field/Park hotel ?? The one at Foleys petrol station ?? The one at Beresford trailers ??  The one at the other end of that road outside GSK ?? I'm missing at least 3 or 4  in between, what the fcuk are they for anyway ??. And if ya go through the town, the 2nd one that separates the town from Abbeyside, before the bridge ??  Is there another one at the Square end of the bridge/Lawlors these days ??  The one outside the top of (is it Mary St ?) the church ?? , the one outside the Garda Station ?? 

Roundabouts aside tho, good spot to go out in, as long as ya wouldn't be bumping into yerself or those other 2 loons you occasionally socialise with 

I'm going to suggest a wild theory here, I don't think Waterford has a bad town in it. I would freely admit the city itself is not as nice as Kilkenny or Galway, but still far from a sh*thole. 

Never particularly liked my own home town of Tramore when I was growing up, but when you allow for the insular attitudes of the locals, and the tackiness of the amusement arcades down by the beach front, and the annual influx of scumbag Dubs that venture there during the summer months (that isn't a rant or a dig at Dubs, I'm sure many lads on here spent childhood summers in Tramore & have good memories of it, but all we get these days, for the last decade or so are Dubs who can't afford a Ryanair flight to Santa Ponza/Lanzarote who seem to take it as their national duty to rob the local supermarket & off licence), it is quite a a decent looking small town with one of the country's best (semi polluted) beaches. 

Dungarvan, give or take a few unnecessary roundabouts, is a great spot to go out in, great spot for pubs, with every one of them in walking distance of the main square. 

Lismore is a fantastic looking small town, with multiple awards to back that opinion up, Dunmore East likewise. The rest are really only villages with less than 1000 population, so don't really count in my view as regards the original post. 

I would echo Reddladd's Tipp comments, having driven through all of them at some stage, and as regards Cork, I'm going to throw in Castlemartyr & Killeagh, if only just for their absurd traffic policing on Munster hurling Final day, where locals returning from mass, coming out of side roads & byways get priority over Déise lads travelling to PUC for the final on the main Waterford Cork road.  The tailbacks are something you have to experience, it is beyond frustration to the point that any time we play in PUC these days, I go the night before rather than face them on match day. 

Other nice towns (NOT a City ), Kilkenny is another great spot. 

Ballina in Tipperary is a great little town on a sunny day if you can look past the traffic congestion.

Just cos its popular doesn't make it over rated !!

Too many to mention here , if you get the weather Ireland is the nicest place on earth 

Cappoquin is a place that will always be close to my heart.

I'll have you know we are upstanding members of society,apart from the odd lapse...

Never actually met the 2 lads so far!They'd be distant cousins.Met their mother alright at a first cousins 21st a few years back,one lad at it happened to call Stephen sh*te about 3 feet away from her,needless to say she wasn't best pleased.Nah,the 2 lads Minty is on about are absolutely cracked,the older one especially.The stories that lad has are unbelievable

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

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

Downpatrick and nice don't really go in the same sentence together IMO

+1

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

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  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 )

Jaysus how did I forget about that