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"Do not come to Tramore expecting the famed Irish hospitality. Outsiders are viewed with a distrust bordering on paranoia.......... The Serbia of the south"
ROUGH GUIDE TO BRITAIN AND IRELAND
"The locals have a haunted look about them. I have seen the sun set in many a strange foreign land, but never have I come across such a twisted and foul smelling people as those who call Tramore home"
TRAVELS IN 19th CENTURY IRELAND, by Sir Anthony Finsbury Park, 14th Earl of Winchester
Motorists are advised to avoid the Co.Waterford town of Tramore at all costs. Car jacking is rampant. However whereas in other places this is done in order to steal the car, here it seems to be done simply out of some perverse sense of fun.
AA GUIDE TO DRIVING IN IRELAND
"I'd rather spend two weeks up to my neck in horse shit than spend a day in that fuckin' place."
2FM LISTENER ON BEING TOLD HE'D WON A LUXURY HOLIDAY IN TRAMORE
"I just pulled in to get a pack of fags, and when I went back to the car the tyres were gone and there was a dead horse on the bonnet.
GARDA STATEMENT BY ENGLISH TOURIST FRANK THOMPSON, AFTER INADVERTENTLY DRIFTING INTO TRAMORE