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    #32
    Marsden
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Marsden


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    75% of tourists don't even recognise Irish junkies.

    Where did you pick that figure from, Drummers arse?


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    #33
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    seven_eleven wrote: »
    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.

    American's classification system for urban areas is very screwed up. Not a good example.


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    #34
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    uch wrote: »
    Nope

    Not sure if you're agreeing with me or not, but Sligo is a town.


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    #35
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    All the road signs in and around it must be wrong so.

    Yuppers.

    http://www.sligoborough.ie/AboutUs/

    The 'About Us' section of the Sligo borough website describes it as a town.


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    #36
    Hammar
    Registered Users Posts: 995 ✭✭✭Hammar


    I was going to go to New Haven,Conneticut,but Conneticut people are obviously unfriendly.
    Kabul and Kandahar it is then,they weren't listed so they must be friendly enough...


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    #37
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,402 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    seven_eleven wrote: »
    So what you're saying is....it is a city.

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

    What I'm saying is, or what the Act is saying is, it was a special case and it is recognised as a ceremonial city due to a combination of history and whinging.

    It's different to Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford. It's not an actual city and won't have an administrative council but is only allowed to retain the title due to tradition.


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    #38
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    Yeah, to be honest the list is fairly nonsense.


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    #39
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Ah no, I always wanted to go to Luanda, Angola but according to that article it's the 4th unfriendliest city in the world :(


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    #40
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,713 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    April O Neill wrote: »
    American's classification system for urban areas is very screwed up. Not a good example.

    I think if you look around very few places define a city just by population (thats the idea a quick glance on wiki gives anyway), some languages dont even distinguish between a city and a town


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    #41
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Not sure if you're agreeing with me or not, but Sligo is a town.


    Yep

    21/25



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    #42
    Henlars67
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Yuppers.

    http://www.sligoborough.ie/AboutUs/

    The 'About Us' section of the Sligo borough website describes it as a town.

    It was designated as a Gateway City under the National Spatial Strategy years ago.


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    #43
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    It was designated as a Gateway City under the National Spatial Strategy years ago.

    In the 'About Us' section there, they discuss that it might become a gateway city.


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    #44
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    riffmongous wrote: »
    I think if you look around very few places define a city just by population (thats the idea a quick glance on wiki gives anyway), some languages dont even distinguish between a city and a town

    Right, so I think to me a city is a place with a decent population that has a city feel. Cork and Dublin in this country for me, sin é.


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    #45
    markomuscle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭markomuscle


    belfast should be up there with the unfriendliest cities, about 80% of the people i've known from there are scumbags, i've also heard people say similar things about dublin though.


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    #46
    Henlars67
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    April O Neill wrote: »
    In the 'About Us' section there, they discuss that it might become a gateway city.

    I don't know when that was written, but it's been a gateway city for years now


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    #47
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    Where is Liverpool on that list, far friendlier than Dublin


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    #48
    Pang
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    Kilkenny's tourism board have done great work bringing more visitors to the city and surrounding county. It's such a lovely clean city.

    It is a city and has always been.

    Typical Irish begrudgery being shown towards Kilkenny's city status again. Always with the negativity.


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    #49
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    I don't know when that was written, but it's been a gateway city for years now

    Link?


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    #50
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Pang wrote: »
    Typical Irish begrudgery being shown towards Kilkenny's city status again. Always with the negativity.

    Post 48, took longer than usual in this thread, but it always rears its head eventually.

    Change the record, seriously.


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    #51
    Weevil
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    Pang wrote: »
    Kilkenny's tourism board have done great work bringing more visitors to the city and surrounding county. It's such a lovely clean city.

    It is a city and has always been.

    Typical Irish begrudgery being shown towards Kilkenny's city status again. Always with the negativity.
    I've just decided that our family's end-of-summer holiday won't be in Kilkenny.


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    #52
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    KKkitty wrote: »
    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 :)

    Post that in the Waterford City Forum, I dare you.

    Just watch the ban count rise. :)


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    #53
    kneemos
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    Weevil wrote: »
    I've just decided that our family's end-of-summer holiday won't be in Kilkenny.

    Prefer Carlow tbh.


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    #54
    grenache
    Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    dj jarvis wrote: »
    so for all the jackeen bashing on AH , it's nice to see we are ranked 12th most friendly city in the world , but even better Kilkenny makes the top 10 , being ranked 9th , up the cats ;-)

    and i think Dublin is the highest ranked capital city in the world !!!

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/kilkenny-among-world-s-top-ten-friendliest-cities-survey-1.1486172

    So it looks like the hordes of zombies on abbey st might not be putting the tourists off after all :eek:

    every little helps
    Have you ever walked down O'Connel St late on a Saturday night / Sunday morning?

    Not so friendly now are you OP!


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    #55
    Weevil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭Weevil


    kneemos wrote: »
    Prefer Carlow tbh.

    Went to Carlow RTC, and the town had a nice Arty-set and Tech* thing going on. Unfortunately, it lacks a castle and an un-negotiable traffic environment. Fail!


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    #56
    anbrutog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭anbrutog


    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.

    Calling Kilkenny a city is a bit silly in fairness.

    Nothing against the place, but if Kilkenny is a city then Port Laoise , Ennis , Athlone , Dundalk , Clonmel and about 20 more other 'towns' of a similiar size should all qualify as well.


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    #57
    keith16
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    How come when the Irish travel, one of the defining factors of their experience is how friendly the locals are?

    I go on holidays for the experience, and that doesn't necessarily include making friends, local or Irish. I don't particularly need to interact with the locals but when I do, I have found places like Paris and NY to be very friendly despite their reputations.

    Other places in Eastern Europe and Russia (Moscow in particular) seem to go out of their way to belittle tourists, but again, this is something that wouldn't bother me, but would ruin trips for others...


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    #58
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users Posts: 9,065 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Weevil wrote: »
    I've just decided that our family's end-of-summer holiday won't be in Kilkenny.

    Found a nicer halting site?


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    #59
    Dostoevsky
    Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Dostoevsky


    Kilkenny has city status historically so fair enough. What's comical is that a half-arsed town like Newry has recently (2002) been designated as a 'city', at the request of its clearly delusional urban authority.


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    #60
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,316 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    'Most friendliest' ? What the hell is wrong with that journalist?


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    #61
    [Deleted User]
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    longshanks wrote: »
    Kilkenny is a city now?

    And what the hell is Queenstown, NZ doing there as well.

    Its basically Portlaoise with added bungee jumping and drinking


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