Why East?

petals

I'm just wondering why is Wicklow in the east section when it's referred to as the "Sunny South-East" with obvious reasons as to why.. well except the sunny part! My point is should we not be in the south-east section rather than East

Vokes

I have never heard of Wicklow being referred to as the Sunny South-east. It is clearly in the East.

Sure you're not mixing it up with Wexford?

Ruu_Old

^Agreed, I've heard Waterford or Wexford be the 'Sunny South-East', not that it matters too much. It is fine in East.

Wexford / Waterford is the South East, Wicklow is East.

However there are random 'Welcome to the Sunny South East' signs around the place - there is even one in Tip!

petals

Hello I am from County Wicklow.. We are most definately not in the East of Ireland we are the South-East of Ireland right beside County Wexford! Get out a map and have a look at it.. Arklow and Gorey are smack bang beside each other.. I should Know I LIVE THERE!

PeakOutput

ye but thats the very arse of wicklow

if you take dublin as being in the middle from a north south perspective then wicklow town is just as far away as drogheda and i dont think you refer to drogheda as the north east do you???

also divide ireland with thre equally spaced horizontal lines and you will see that arklow is close to the edge but still included in what would be the middle chunk therefore wicklow is the east not the south east if you know what i mean*


*yes its late and im bored

Creamy Goodness

anyone not figure that wicklow is a fairly big county that it can be both east and south-east? no?

it can be both yeah?

henbane

Why does this matter to anyone?

CuLT

henbane wrote:

Why does this matter to anyone?

Apparently the good people of Wicklow don't want to be associated with filthy "Easterners", despite being quite clearly located on the east side of the country.

I think this is probably the single most retarded thread I have ever seen on boards.ie.

Ever.

Vokes

petals wrote:

Hello I am from County Wicklow.. We are most definately not in the East of Ireland we are the South-East of Ireland right beside County Wexford! Get out a map and have a look at it.. Arklow and Gorey are smack bang beside each other.. I should Know I LIVE THERE!

Well, im from North Wicklow and im nearly sure we're in the East....and I daresay there's plenty of Arklow-boardsies about who will tell you they are in the East too, or am i wrong?

Or do you propose we build a Wicklow Wall running west<->east smack through Wicklow Town to seperate East and South-East?

mikedragon32

petals wrote:

Hello I am from County Wicklow.. We are most definately not in the East of Ireland we are the South-East of Ireland right beside County Wexford! Get out a map and have a look at it.. Arklow and Gorey are smack bang beside each other.. I should Know I LIVE THERE!

By that logic any town which borders the east bank of the Shannon, is in the West, by virtue of the fact that it's beside it.

Regions have to end somewhere, and this one ends at the Wexford/Wicklow border.

Add to that the fact that the largest population centers of the county (Bray, Wicklow Town, Greystones and Blessington) are all in the North or West of the county, then it makes for an even stronger case against being part of the South East.

Plus, as the Mod, I like it here, in the East. :-P

Kinetic^

CuLT wrote:

I think this is probably the single most retarded thread I have ever seen on boards.ie.

Ever.

Ze man speaks ze truth!!

petals

CuLT wrote:

Apparently the good people of Wicklow don't want to be associated with filthy "Easterners", despite being quite clearly located on the east side of the country.

I think this is probably the single most retarded thread I have ever seen on boards.ie.

Ever.

Well if you are talking just North South East and West yes we are in the East but the county is in the south east of the country and I would say Drogheda/Louth is in the north east of the country.

The Hill Billy

I hardly think that any Bray or Enniskerry boardsies would identify with being in the South East.


Ye've little to be thinking about.

PeakOutput

petals wrote:

Well if you are talking just North South East and West yes we are in the East but the county is in the south east of the country and I would say Drogheda/Louth is in the north east of the country.

well your wrong unfortunately

Vokes

petals wrote:

Well if you are talking just North South East and West yes we are in the East but the county is in the south east of the country and I would say Drogheda/Louth is in the north east of the country.

So..... what? If you say Wicklow is South-East, then you would also say that Bray, for example, is in the south east? (when it is clearly not)


This thread is just plain bizarre

Zaph

Sure north Wicklow is pretty much a suburb of Dublin now, it's only a matter of time before we send in the tanks and annex it to officially make part of Dublin, and that would definitely make it east.

I just asked a friend of mine from Enniscorthy and he said that he's never heard of Wicklow being described as the sunny southeast, that as far as they're concerned in his neck of the woods that description encompasses only Wexfod and Waterford.

And +1 for the most retarded thread vote.

jor el

Deleted User wrote:

there is even one in Tip!

Yes, when traveling from Limerick to Tipperary you'll find a big sign saying "Welcome to Tipperary, the Sunny South-East" between Oola and Monard. Now, my Geography was never the best, but I'm pretty sure the Limerick-Tipperary border is nowhere near the South-East of Ireland.

petals wrote:

I'm just wondering why is Wicklow in the east section when it's referred to as the "Sunny South-East" with obvious reasons as to why.

But anyway, Wicklow is on the East coast so it's perfectly acceptable to have it in the Eastern Region board.

Yep, Wicklow is definitely East. Even calling Waterford South-East is a bit of a stretch, maybe the city, but not most of the county.

I've also always thought that the "Sunny South-East" was in reference to Wexford only, I've never heard of it being used to describe Wicklow or Waterford. Anyone referring to Waterford in that manner has obviously never spent more than 10 minutes in the county, never stops raining down there. It's worse than Limerick!

Victor

The regions were set up the same as the old health board regions, not the silly tourist regions where you have things like "mid-east".

Gone West

Its described as sunny south east as a cheap tourism ploy, off the back of wexfords tourism popularity due in a small part to that slogan.
Its cute that some locals think so though...

randylonghorn

Kilkenny people tend to think of themselves as south-east ... with more justification than Wicklow, imho.

The Hill Billy

randylonghorn wrote:

Kilkenny people tend to think of themselves as south-east ... with more justification than Wicklow, imho.

Too true. Time for a Cat pic methinks:

tba

Wicklow is the "Garden of Ireland", Wexford is the Sunny South East.

This thread is pedantic.

steveland?

I demand Dublin be reassigned to the Middle East!

petals

Little to think about eh?

I was having this discussion today with someone we came to the conclusion that it's actually spread across the two.. Bray and that side is defo east but Arklow and that is defo south-east

nesf

And parts of Galway are in the midlands practically...

PeakOutput

petals wrote:

Little to think about eh?

I was having this discussion today with someone we came to the conclusion that it's actually spread across the two.. Bray and that side is defo east but Arklow and that is defo south-east

well then your both wrong

Silverfish

On the way in to Wexford the signs have 'Welcome to the Sunny South-East'.


Not seen these anywhere in Wicklow. I trust the road signs more than some random punter of t'interwebs.

randylonghorn

nesf wrote:

And parts of Galway are in the midlands practically...

:eek: Wash your mouth out with soap!! :eek:

The Hill Billy

Oi! You there! Yeah, head-de-ball from Wickla.
Get de feck out of my Sunny South East dere boss!

Sully

Do you get BeatFM in Wicklow? They broadcast only in the South East and their website states the south east as being

(counties Waterford; Wexford; Carlow; Kilkenny and South Tipperary).

See: http://www.beat102103.com/beat-102-103-general/beat-102-103-general/terms--conditions.html (Section 2.1)

Also, Discover Ireland disagrees with you also: http://www.discoverireland.ie/southeast.aspx

petals

Sully wrote:

Do you get BeatFM in Wicklow? They broadcast only in the South East and their website states the south east as being

See: http://www.beat102103.com/beat-102-103-general/beat-102-103-general/terms--conditions.html (Section 2.1)

Also, Discover Ireland disagrees with you also: http://www.discoverireland.ie/southeast.aspx

In Arklow we do get BeatFm!

PeakOutput

petals wrote:

In Arklow we do get BeatFm!

i can get fm104 in carrick on shannon if the weather is right it dosnt mean carrick is in dublin on those days

Sully

Well you can get Beat up nearly as far as Dublin, but its not an area they specifically broadcast to :P

Talliesin

petals wrote:

I'm just wondering why is Wicklow in the east section

This is the point in this thread where my brain started hurting. Every word since (especially petals') brought more pain.

Just glance at a map of Ireland already.

Bukman13

First of all i cant believe i've managed to read 35 posts on this pointless topic, although for some sort of reason i feel the need to comment on it...

This thread is the most worthless piece of web space in history.

IMO
The whole point of allocating "Wicklow" to a specific region is so that anyone who wants to either read or discuss something about wicklow will know were to go...

And from what i've gathered, everyone who remotely cares (well care is the probably wrong word but you know what i mean) about wicklow, has probably commented on this thread already... therefore the thread itself has solved the initial problem.

everyone now knows that wicklow is in the east region now, which means we will go to "east region" to find/post on wicklow threads....

just lock this thread and stop this farcical debate....

tba

if you want it locked it so bad, become an admin and do it yourself.

petals

PeakOutput wrote:

well then your both wrong

I don't think so.. Look at the map.. Draw lines of North-South, East-West.
Wicklow can be both.. North Wicklow is East
South Wicklow eg: Arklow is South East

This thread is getting pathetic.. Everyones opinion differs and everyone is entitled to their opinion.

It is possible that counties can be referred to as two different things.. it is possible for drogheda to be referred to as east and north-east.

and it's not just that "locals may find this cute"
It's on the friggin map.. Dublin is east.. any thing else can be considered south-east or east or north-east or east.

Anyway what's the big deal about it. All I asked was why was wicklow considered east when it could be either..

I could of Quite as easily asked why does Greystones get it's own section?!

petals

Victor wrote:

The regions were set up the same as the old health board regions.

Ah!!! I see. That's cool I suppose.. Thanks for clearing it up

The Hill Billy

petals wrote:

This thread is getting pathetic..

...always was...

petals wrote:

It's on the friggin map.. Dublin is east.. any thing else can be considered south-east or east or north-east or east.

From a Cork perspecitve then Waterford could be put into the North East forum, Kerry into a new North North West forum & Donegal into a North North North North North West forum.


* heads to Forums forum to request regional forums by county-specific perspective *

mikedragon32

petals wrote:

I could of Quite as easily asked why does Greystones get it's own section?!

Greystones & Charlesland (to give the forum its proper name) has its own section because it pre-exists the Wicklow forum and if you care to take a look at the figures, it gets more post than Dublin North, Dublin South, Kildare and the Wicklow Fora Combined. Greystones & Charlesland was originally a Hosted Forum and was moved by the Admins to the Regional category due primarily to the volume of traffic, I think.

lucernarian

I can't believe I just read all that:eek:

Everything's grand the way it is.

Sully

Why West? o_O

Why were we given directions? Why cant we all just get along?

Why, Why oh Why?