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    #2
    longshanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Kilkenny is a city now?


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    Super-Rush
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    Brace yourselves.


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    KKkitty
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    Kilkenny people are the friendliest so they are. Being born and raised there is an honour.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Newark the most unfriendly city?

    WALOFS!


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    Fr_Dougal
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    Kilkenny people are the friendliest so they are. Being born and raised there is an honour.

    Bad kitty.


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    Talib Fiasco
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    Ah sure yeah, Henry Shefflin embodied that Kilkenny friendliness the other week didn't he?


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    anncoates
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    longshanks wrote: »
    Kilkenny is a city now?

    Surprised at the Irish Times misspelling Sh*tty like that.


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    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    What has Kilkenny ever done wrong? People berate its city status almost all the time here.


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    Local-womanizer
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    Out of interest how are the rankings decided?


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    Mal-Adjusted
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    Great for Dublin and for Ireland :)


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    Henlars67
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    It shouldn't be a city, Ennis and Navan are bigger and they aren't cities.

    Sligo is another city that's only really a town.

    The majority of people in Sligo don't even want it to have city status, though it seems Kilkenny people are quite proud of their status.


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    downonthefarm
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    love dublin no other place in ireland like it


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    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Kilkenny has city status so get over it. Making the top ten on that list is a great achievement when you think of the amount of other places in the world. Up the Cats :)


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    BNMC
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    downonthefarm wrote: »
    love dublin no other place in ireland like it
    Thankfully.


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    Peregrine
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    What has Kilkenny ever done wrong? People berate its city status almost all the time here.

    My suburb is twice as big as your 'city' ffs.

    Also I believe it's governed by a.borough council?

    It was allowed to be called a city in that Local Government Act 12 years ago simply not to upset anyone.


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    downonthefarm
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    best looking women by far


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    KKkitty
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    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    My suburb is twice as big as your 'city' ffs.

    Also I believe it's governed by a.borough council?

    It was allowed to be called a city in that Local Government Act 12 years ago simply not to upset anyone.

    Good for your suburb so. It is governed by a borough council so what's wrong with that? Jaysus Kilkenny lose in the hurling and ye're still not happy.


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    Femme_Fatale
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    Kilkenny is a nice place but hard to recognise as a city. I know cities don't have to be colossal, but there's a point where a place just seems too small to be a city too. Ditto Limerick, Galway, Waterford IMO. Cork just barely - and it's one heck of a tiny city.


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    Xavi6
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    Went to Kilkenny for the first time over the Christmas. Nice place, lovely town, crappy city.


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    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    My suburb is twice as big as your 'city' ffs.

    Also I believe it's governed by a.borough council?

    It was allowed to be called a city in that Local Government Act 12 years ago simply not to upset anyone.

    Eh, it was given city status in 1609. I know what was recognised as a city back then might not be impressive by today's standards, but facts be facts.


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    Pace2008
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    dj jarvis wrote: »
    So it looks like the hordes of zombies on abbey st might not be putting the tourists off after all :eek:
    75% of tourists don't even recognise Irish junkies, and I daresay a lot of them are less traumatised than some of the locals for being asked for a bit of spare change.


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    seven_eleven
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    Why do people not from Kilkenny get so upset when they hear that its has city status?
    I mean, whats so wrong about it having city status, who gives a crap what title it has?
    There are cities in America, and all around the world with less than 5000 people living in them. Hell, there are cities in America with only a few hundred living in them.

    Try not to shove your superior ego down peoples throats.


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    April O Neill
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    What has Kilkenny ever done wrong? People berate its city status almost all the time here.

    It is TINY for a city. It's technically a city, but with a population of 25,000? Naaaah.


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    uch
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    As I always say,,,, I like cake

    21/25



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    April O Neill
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    Henlars67 wrote: »
    Sligo is another city that's only really a town.

    Sligo isn't a city.


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    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Sligo isn't a city.


    Nope

    21/25



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    Peregrine
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    Good for your suburb so. It is governed by a borough council so what's wrong with that? Jaysus Kilkenny lose in the hurling and ye're still not happy.

    There's nothing wrong with it. It's just that it's a large town.

    Read the Local Government Act 2002, originally it wasn't going to be recognised as a city but after all the complaints from the council, it was added as a ceremonial city. As in, it recognises it's history and how it was always called a city and because of this special case, it can retain the title city, a ceremonial city. Hence why it's governed by a borough council as opposed to a city council like the other 5 cities.

    So it can be referred to as a city due it traditionally being called a city but in reality, it's not a city.


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    Henlars67
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    April O Neill wrote: »
    Sligo isn't a city.

    All the road signs in and around it must be wrong so.


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    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Kilkenny is a nice place but hard to recognise as a city. I know cities don't have to be colossal, but there's a point where a place just seems too small to be a city too. Ditto Limerick, Galway, Waterford IMO. Cork just barely - and it's one heck of a tiny city.

    Yeah, Galway is a town to me. It has a town feel.

    Cork, IMO, feels like a proper city.


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    seven_eleven
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    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    There's nothing wrong with it. It's just that it's a large town.

    Read the Local Government Act 2002, originally it wasn't going to be recognised as a city but after all the complaints from the council, it was added as a ceremonial city. As in, it recognises it's history and how it was always called a city and because of this special case, it can retain the title city, a ceremonial city. Hence why it's governed by a borough council as opposed to a city council like the other 5 cities.

    So it can be referred to as a city due it traditionally being called a city but in reality, it's not a city.


    So what you're saying is....it is a city.

    But its not a city because you dont want it to be.


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