Are there too many unnecessary counties in Ireland?

lostexpectation

dsmythy wrote: »

I blame the parents. I mean the English settlers who made them.

most counties borders are based on rivers and mountains and were around long before the english

challengemaster

Why not make it just 2 counties - Dublin and Rest. Tis the way it is to any dub anyway..

Seriously, tis all one country, if you're from blackrock or salthill, ringsend or some backroad in the middle of Westmeath - we're all Irish. Sometimes people forget that Does it really matter at all?

Davidius

Dublin, it's not really a county. As I've said I feel it should be under the heading of "Doom Fortress".

Sofaspud

Miss Fluff wrote: »

I always thought Roscommon was a place of myth, has anyone met anyone from there, I mean do people actually live there?

I used to think this as well, but I was slightly disappointed when I started working with a few of them.

Leitrim HAS to be made up though. I'm clinging to that hope.

misslt

Collie D wrote: »

Never seen a car with a Leitrim reg.

OMG neither have I! I can picture a car reg from every other county except it.

Is it LM or LT?

Susannahmia

misslt wrote: »

OMG neither have I! I can picture a car reg from every other county except it.

Is it LM or LT?

I think it's L

Collie D

It's neither, it doesn't exist I tell you. I amwaiting to be proved wrong. Any halfway attractive woman in her 20s on Boards may book us into an expensive five star hotel in Leitrim to verify

misslt

Susannahmia wrote: »

I think it's L

Then whats Limerick?

Collie D wrote: »

It's neither, it doesn't exist I tell you. I amwaiting to be proved wrong. Any halfway attractive woman in her 20s on Boards may book us into an expensive five star hotel in Leitrim to verify

Nah you're right...it doesn't exist

Collie D

misslt wrote: »

Then whats Limerick?

That's way too easy...I'll bite my tongue

misslt

Collie D wrote: »

That's way too easy...I'll bite my tongue

No, tell me, I've never been to Limerick!

Collie D

misslt wrote: »

No, tell me, I've never been to Limerick!

I meant it was too easy to make a joke out of

gucci

Collie D wrote: »

I always thought the same about Leitrim.

I'vve never met anyone from there, never seen a football or hurling team of theirs. Never seen a car with a Leitrim reg. I think Leitrim is where the government do all their secret testing a lá Area 51

they put a LM registration on their horses and tractors and such and such in leitrim.

Saint_Mel

Susannahmia wrote: »

I think it's L

L is Limerick City
LK is Limerick County
LM is Leitrim

misslt

Collie D wrote: »

I meant it was too easy to make a joke out of

Ah okay. I'm not normally this stupid, I promise

humberklog

Worst thing about dam treaty is that we didn't insist on the bowler tops having to absorb the remaing 3 ulster counties. Donegal,cavan and something called monaghan(not fully sure of its status). Anyway they're all batey,peculiar and ulster. Could we fob them off to the 'Otherside'under the guise of peace and reconcilliation. Lighten the load a little. And any county in connaught just simply becomes 'connaught'.

pd101

Fanny **** wrote: »

Wicklow: South Wicklow people have wexford accents, north Wicklow people have dublin accents. No real identity of their own. No all irelands ever and really just a gateway from rosslare to Dublin.

Recommendation: split equally between wexford and dublin.

Boo. :mad: Wicklow is the best county bar none. No All Irelands, pfft, take a look at this. http://www.hoganstand.com/Wicklow/Profile.aspx They all count.

humberklog

Saint_Mel wrote: »

L is Limerick City
LK is Limerick County
LM is Leitrim

Give over will ya. Limerik has a plate for city and county? eh...no. Try longford.

misslt

humberklog wrote: »

Give over will ya. Limerik has a plate for city and county? eh...no. Try longford.

No, I think shes right...is Longford not LD? I know one county has two plates..

Collie D

humberklog wrote: »

Try longford.

No thanks...I'm put off by a place whose finest late night establishment is called Slashers.

gucci

People from Leitrim are over joyed at the thoughts of joining up with Roscommon

humberklog

Hmmm....yeah see how that read now. Still slashers is marginally better than cadillacs. Still must correct...don't bothr with longford unless confused by car reg plates leaving rds after a shania twain/garth brooks/christy moore gig.

Collie D

gucci wrote: »

People from Leitrim are over joyed at the thoughts of joining up with Roscommon

That's obvioulsy a true statement because I don't believe for one second they are cheering on a team of any variety

stepbar

54 posts.... jesus wept :rolleyes:

blueross67

Absolutely agree.
Take me as an example. Cork man with a Dublin accent, hint of Donegal slang, living in Roscommon. How F**ked up am I

Red Hand

rb_ie wrote: »

Changing Cork to East Kerry is a brilliant idea

As a Kerryman...I agree (partially). For one thing, the Kerry football team would be invincible with the onset of the Anschluss. The rest of the country would be under our jackboot of darkness for ever and ever and ever and ever!...ehem, ok, I'll calm myself.

And Kerry would have a hurling team!

Obviously, we would need a Truth and Reconciliation process to ease the Anschluss, and teachers would need to be dispatched from the wilds of South Kerry to areas in urgent need of accent neutralisation so as alter the range of Cork accents down to a standard East Kerry patois.

Xavi6

misslt wrote: »

I know one county has two plates..

Tipperary - Tip North (TN) and Tipp South (TS)

blueross67 wrote: »

Absolutely agree.
Take me as an example. Cork man with a Dublin accent, hint of Donegal slang, living in Roscommon. How F**ked up am I

Luckily you have that bit of Dub in you to keep you that little bit sane. If it wasn't for that.....

blueross67

Xavi6 wrote: »

Tipperary - Tip North (TN) and Tipp South (TS)

Luckily you have that bit of Dub in you

I never had any Dub inside me........ Who told you that

Kurtosis

I think if we're having this shake-up we might as well bring back the Pale. That way the parts of other counties that have just become Dublin suburbs can be all joined up!

Xavi6

blueross67 wrote: »

I never had any Dub inside me........ Who told you that

So it's just the accent? Damn wannabes

geminilady

Susannahmia wrote: »

I think it's L

Leitrim is LM! No, its not a fantasy county we do have football teams and hurling teams although hurling isnt quite as popular as football