The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Newry, Down*

Newry, Down Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Bogs
• The Quays
• Belinis
• any one with alcohal
• Libary
• Cathedral/Canal Court
• deli lights monaghan street
• town hall
• my gaf!
• town hall
• the 24 hour
• North St Flats! groovy
• Iceland's architectural triumph on Monaghan Street - who would have thought that one windowless barn of a building could've plunged an already bleak and rundown area into the pits of shithole hell? Also the Town Hall, Toner's Building on the mall, and Sand's Mill and the Red Church behind the Courthouse (which is itself a piece of shit).
• Hmmm...........................*is thinking*................nope, you got me, what is the best building in Newry??
• The courthouse...it has to be a favourite for Newry residents because let's face it, anyone who decides to stay in Newry after 18 will end up there.
• My Home is my favourite building as there are no spides near and i feel safe
• the courthouse....

Demolish It Now Building

• All of it
• The Magnet, get rid of the goths
• Parkhead Crescent, Dromalane, Mourneview, Derrybeg, Drumgullion, Shannon Park
• All da building along Canal Street rite up until near St. Joes
• frair tucks....way too dear
• exchange.thank heavens its turning in to a resturant
• North street flats
• the broo especially the job market section
• the fucking council offices and build a fucking skate park
• your house
• nroth street flats
• north street falts ALL OF DEM
• the cathedral
• That fucking exchange. blow it up the fuck.
• the fagnet
• norht street flats
• Newry library euch
• joe magees ( the swingin diddy )
• st colmans college, my own personal prison
• The Bank, Exchange, the Cathedral, Ardmore PSNI Station and the Canal Court, preferably all with the proprieters still inside.
• north st flats were demolished, well some at least
• Finally! Progress with North Street Flats! AND st.christopher's park doesn't stench so much, they freed the horses! Damn knackers,lol. OUR LADY'S GRAMMAR!
• North Street Flats... Our Lady's!!! FRIAR TUCKS!
• The Relic... i would love to see it go but then where wud the tramps go?
• NORTH STREET FLATS or a least give it a lick of paint or something
• the north street flats

The Best Things

• You walk down town and know nearly everyone
• Newry is jus simply da place 2 b! Newry knucks rule!
• the magnet.
• all the r ladys girls! wel most of tem. ive seen a group of girls that walk down to the stone brigde and they r HOT!!
• all the r ladys girls der hot... well nearly al r ladys girls. ppl 4m newry wil no hu i mean. da group of girls dt walk 2da stone bridge r esp fit!!!
• always somethin new goin on
• I live here!
• newry market ha ha thought i,d give yous alaugh
• every thing
• watching drunk people and skating in the summer every one just is so happy then.
• the people, the views and the accent, dead on!
• all d boys
• all da nyucks yeooo and i am a proud nyuck
• deeno
• hot women, jees the town starting to bloom with the women. unbelievable.
• sex and dope and getin stoned mofo
• getting the hell outta here, and getting as far away as possible!!!
• The Bypass
• nothing newry sucks, go to lurgan! which also sucks but has less cultchies
• The market - with more foreigners and cheap imitation goods than you can shake a stick at, it is without doubt the most colourful part of an otherwise grey, caucasian town.
• the magnet. god this site is obsessed with the place. readin this id think it was a big massive place, its upstairs above a restaurant on a pokey st! lol
• Watching the cat fights at the weekends, who needs mud wrestling, anyway??
• Newry has no good points, except that eventually anyone who goes out there learns the art of broken bottle fighting. Nice.
• Friar tucks is the best thing
• where everybody knows ur name and their always glad u came etc etc. leaving it and looking back fondly
• leaving it

The Worst Things

• that all these ppl frm different counteries r taken over our town!!
• the fights
• the scumbags!
• Da wannabe chavs, nd da armagh priks da jus swarm dis Down city!
• not that many in the alternative crowd.
• weather, magnet centre (drug infested)
• local drunks at the weekend verabally abusing innocent foreigners
• when it rains
• all d rotten 1z
• all de wee alcos, lep and michael dey no hu dey r
• them fucking wino's who always looking for a feg or loose change. no! exile the bastards. and them pricks who go round newry with their corsa's and shit dance music way up loud with their windows down. Shotgun!
• ur ma in bed
• Glancey McCullough
• Some day someone is going to drown in the canal, with all the Dunnes trolleys, and god knows what else in there, if you somehow happen to end up in there, there REALLY isnt much chance of getting back out again!!
• City status and gerdie the samarui wannabe
• Transport? Architecture? Reliance on consumerism? Government indifference? Historical rape and pillage? Aesthetic ignorance of the local population?
• That accent, by. Barcroft park, drop by and die.
• That accent... Friar Tucks. Those Our Lady;s skirts. THE ACCENT.
• i know it doesnt fit here but despite what people think the best place to go out is belfast especially if you are the holder of a student card, i have walked through loyalist and republican heartlands absolutely pie eyed and nothing has ever happened. I suppose it is down to mess with dodgy characters and they wont knife u they will just shoot u, people in belfast believe it or not...don't like confrontation
• the smell of the canal, sugar island in the early hours of the morning (war zone) the accent sometimes does ur head in and more stuff i cant think of
• having to grow up ther

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Last updated: 2008-05-15