Swords split -12000 moved to Dublin west

Hill Bicks

I dont know if this is the right place to post this:

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]New electrical boundaries have been drawn up for Dublin North
to which the Swords area is located.
These new boundaries which were drawn by The Constituency
Boundary Commission exclude areas of Swords from the
Dublin North election area and place them into the
Dublin West constituency. The Dublin West area primarily
consists of Blancherdstown, Castleknock and Mulhuddard.
The areas of Swords which now fall into the Dublin West
constituency include, Rivervalley, Highfields, Ridgewood,
St. Margarets and Rolestown.

Well over 90 percent of the people in Dublin West are
living in the Dublin 15 area while the remaining10 per cent
live in the Swords area. The upcoming election for 2011
will see a section of the population of Swords voting for
candidates them never voted for before and which they
know very little about. There is a real fear that the 10 per cent
of the Swords people who have now fallen into this new area will feel
isolated from their newly elected politicians.
The new Dublin West Constituency will now be responsible
for Dublin Airport and the New Thornton Hall Prison
which were formally in the Dublin North area.

Was anyone affected told that this madness had gone through In time to make a stand against it?

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Kajor

Does anyone really know what their elected politicns are up to anyway? (when you take away the nice shiney election promises)

Hill Bicks

Still to effectively take 12000 people who live less then a mile away from Fingal CC headquarters and lump them into an area 12-15 miles away where the politicians of that area have their work cut out as it is seems like lunacy to me.
Will they bother to canvass on my door all they way out here? I doubt it. I would very much like to talk to those who "represented" me for the last 4 years but will not get the chance to as Im no longer in their constituency! (and its not because I moved from my negative equity pile in swords rather the move came to me)

dsmythy

Hill Bicks wrote: »

Still to effectively take 12000 people who live less then a mile away from Fingal CC headquarters and lump them into an area 12-15 miles away where the politicians of that area have their work cut out as it is seems like lunacy to me.
Will they bother to canvass on my door all they way out here? I doubt it. I would very much like to talk to those who "represented" me for the last 4 years but will not get the chance to as Im no longer in their constituency! (and its not because I moved from my negative equity pile in swords rather the move came to me)

I live in that part of Swords and Fine Gael were out and about in my estate this morning.

Hill Bicks

Good Good. Now where is my waggy finger.:)