{"id":332577,"date":"2025-08-10T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332577\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:34:12","slug":"ireland-before-you-die-ballymena-worst-place-on-island-to-visit-says-travel-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332577\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Before You Die: Ballymena\u00a0worst place on island to visit, says travel guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Larne, Lisburn, Bangor and Strabane also score poorly for things to see and do\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ballymena town centre has 'many empty shopfronts and little to attract tourists', according to the guide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/da153f90-3fdc-4afe-812c-0f9648db6fe2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ballymena town centre has &#8216;many empty shopfronts and little to attract tourists&#8217;, according to the guide<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ballymena is the worst city or town to visit on the island of Ireland, according to a travel guide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Half of the places in the top 10 are in Northern Ireland, with Bangor, Strabane, Lisburn and Larne also making appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Larne, Lisburn, Bangor and Strabane also score poorly for things to see and do Ballymena town centre has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,1384,14991,73935,1144,6568,1210,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-332577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-down-news","10":"tag-ivan-little","11":"tag-ni-protests","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-the-troubles","14":"tag-tyrone-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115003317709025836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}