Cork City's population is set to double!

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

CORK City Council has unveiled its proposal for a new city region, expanding its boundary to include Ballincollig, Carrigaline, Blarney, Carrigtwohill and Cork Airport.
In an updated submission to the boundary committee deciding the matter, the City Council said its proposal would see the population of the city increase from 119,000 to 235,000.

The problem is the number of councillors will only increase by 5 from 31 to 36.

Still good for the country. Cork will be better positioned to act as a counterweight to Dublin.

Link.

keano_afc

Better order some more chips, thats an awful lot of shoulders that are gonna need covering.

Ush1

There's too many councillors as it is countrywide.

You'd be very hard pressed to call Ballincollig or the Airport "Cork City". It's like calling Saggart or Rathcoole part of Dublin City.

BoJack Horseman

Sick of all these 'district boundary change' threads.

pablomakaveli

All those places are a fair bit away from what i'd consider the city limits with maybe the exception of Blarney.

pablomakaveli

keano_afc wrote: »

Better order some more chips, thats an awful lot of shoulders that are gonna need covering.

Maybe you could lend your one.

whiskeyman

Rebel forum

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bjork

Cork has popped

kneemos

Inferiority complex coupled with size envy.

Grandeeod

Oh no!

Banjo String

Let's rename it Langerville and be done with it!

osarusan

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Still good for the country.

I doubt it will make even the slightest bit of difference.

Duggy747

We'll need to quarantine the area as soon as possible and seal off the infection before it spreads further.

TallGlass

Sick of all these Cork threads. You swear it was the only place in Ireland

fizzypish

Great. When I return to the country I don't want to have to move to Dublin for work. Grow cork, grow... Someone sprinkle some of this go juice in Galway too. It'll be like a golden triangle!

Red Kev

The likes of Carrigtwohill and Ballincollig should have their own town councils with the right to take some of the taxes raised in that area (household charge, corpoate tax etc.) and spend them in their areas.

By doing this you actually increase the number of councillors, but they are people who are active in one small local community instead of being spread out over a larger area.

Locally raised taxes means that towns are less dependant on "grants" etc. from central government and will be less dependant on voting in people from the usual political parties.

Councillors don't need to be paid daft amounts of money with huge expenses, look at some of the systems on the continent and see how they manage. We don't need to take in their systems 100% but look at whats working for them and what isn't.

Clearlier

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

The problem is the number of councillors will only increase by 5 from 31 to 36.

Still good for the country. Cork will be better positioned to act as a counterweight to Dublin.

Link.

Increasing the size of Cork might well position it better to act as a counterweight to Dublin. Increasing the size of the area administered by Cork city council won't.

VinLieger

McCains are gonna need to up their production of chips so, got a lot more empty shoulders that will need one

anncoates

235 thousand.

What a teeming metropolis that will be.

Dan_Solo

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

The problem is the number of councillors will only increase by 5 from 31 to 36.

No, the problem is the number of people in Cork will double.

RecordStraight

anncoates wrote: »

235 thousand.

What a teeming metropolis that will be.

Indeed, compared to the mighty world city that is...provincial backwater Dublin.

Anyone ever hear the expression, 'tuppence ha'penny looking down on tuppence'? I'm a Dub myself, but the misplaced arrogance of other Dubs always makes me laugh.

Talib Fiasco

TallGlass wrote: »

Sick of all these Cork threads. You swear it was the only place in Ireland

Well Cork is the only place in Ireland called Cork...and like it's the same anywhere, you could be in Sweden or Australia or Mars and like you couldn't say this is Cork but when you're in Cork you can always say, well you're in Cor like.

Santa Cruz

It might be a good thing if this Cork Lebenstraum means a reduction in the size of Tipperary

kneemos

Was in Cork once.

anncoates

RecordStraight wrote: »

Indeed, compared to the mighty world city that is...provincial backwater Dublin.

Anyone ever hear the expression, 'tuppence ha'penny looking down on tuppence'? I'm a Dub myself, but the misplaced arrogance of other Dubs always makes me laugh.

Well to be fair, a thread celebrating being a 'counterweight to Dublin" by conflating the redrawing of local authority boundaries with an increase in population kind of set the minnow trend there really.

fizzypish

Santa Cruz wrote: »

It might be a good thing if this Cork Lebenstraum means a reduction in the size of Tipperary

**** off, you can have limerick! You really think ye'd have a chance if we mobilized Carrick and tipp town?!?! You have been warned!

podmu80

Dan_Solo wrote: »

No, the problem is the number of people in Cork will double.

No it won't. They're already there. Another 115,00 ain't be made overnight.
this doesn't belong in after hours. Its already descending into the usual old tripe.

anncoates

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Sick of all these 'district boundary change' threads.

Can usually avoid them by not reading the relevant regional forums.

Usually.

Balmed Out

Its just a far overdue boundary extension, at the moment the official urban area of Cork by land area is far smaller then Galway etc even though the greater urban population is much bigger.
As for Cork airport there's all of one minute of green belt between it and togher.......

RecordStraight

podmu80 wrote: »

this doesn't belong in after hours. Its already descending into the usual old tripe.

Indeed. The mighty chest-thumping of the Dublin master-race is well in evidence. Do those people ever travel, I wonder? They might get a sense of Dublin's true importance and centrality if they did.

Jimoslimos

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Cork will be better positioned to act as a counterweight to Dublin.

Cork is a useless counterweight - it floats ffs!

SEPT 23 1989

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Still good for the country. Cork will be better positioned to act as a counterweight to Dublin.

they need to earn their place at the top table

RecordStraight

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

they need to earn their place at the top table

What fresh idiocy is this? What does that even mean?

Trials of strength? A song contest?

the groutch

they can expand it all they like, it will never be the capital.

RecordStraight

the groutch wrote: »

they can expand it all they like, it will never be the capital.

More stupidity. Dublin can expand all it likes, it will never be London.

Christ on a bike. Where do they come from?

Nodin

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

......proposal would see the population of the city increase from 119,000 to 235,000.

...its my fault, me and the rest of the liberal brigade. We said it could never happen, but now it has, and we're all going to suffer the consequences. I'm sorry Ireland, so so sorry.

anncoates

RecordStraight wrote: »

Indeed. The mighty chest-thumping of the Dublin master-race is well in evidence. Do those people ever travel, I wonder? They might get a sense of Dublin's true importance and centrality if they did.

RecordStraight wrote: »

What fresh idiocy is this? What does that even mean?

Trials of strength? A song contest?

RecordStraight wrote: »

More stupidity. Dublin can expand all it likes, it will never be London.

Christ on a bike. Where do they come from?

Will ya relax, boi.

RecordStraight

anncoates wrote: »

Will ya relax, boi.

So much idiocy, it's pretty hard to. Can you be a 'boi' when you were born in the Coombe?

anncoates

RecordStraight wrote: »

So much idiocy, it's pretty hard to. Can you be a 'boi' when you were born in the Coombe?[

Cork Street?

SEPT 23 1989

RecordStraight wrote: »

So much idiocy, it's pretty hard to. Can you be a 'boi' when you were born in the Coombe?

Have you no pride in the great capital city you were fortunate enough to be born in?

RecordStraight

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Have you no pride in the great capital city you were fortunate enough to be born in?

Sadly I wasn't born in a 'great capital', I was born in Dublin. Having lived in actual big cities (London, Buenos Aires), I can't help laughing at the pretensions and lack of insight of some Dubliners.

osarusan

Why would you even give a f**k though? Why would anybody?

RecordStraight

osarusan wrote: »

Why would you even give a f**k though? Why would anybody?

That's a rather vague question, if you don't mind me saying.

anncoates

RecordStraight wrote: »

Having lived in actual big cities (London, Buenos Aires),

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RecordStraight

anncoates wrote: »

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I left out the really swanky places I lived so as not to make you feel bad...ingratitude...*mumble mumble*

Mint Aero

Now if only we could halve the population of Dublin by flooding in order to make a nice big scumfree lake that would be great.

Clandestine

If they expand it, I hope they will make it easier to actually get to the place. There are no dedicated bus or train links to the city from many places around the country, especially in the midlands and west.

You have to go to Dublin heuston first, then take the train down to Cork City, which costs an absolute bomb (65 euro!) and the journey can take as long as 6 hours from Mayo. Even getting the bus for a return ticket is about 40 euro, with the journey taking 5 hours because Galway is the only station which goes straight to Cork.

Nodin

Mint Aero wrote: »

Now if only we could halve the population of Dublin by flooding in order to make a nice big scumfree lake that would be great.

You want to create a swamp full of mutant amphibian skangers?

TommyOM

Oh for **** sake, more Corkonians, the last thing this country needs :rolleyes:

Lyaiera

TommyOM wrote: »

Oh for **** sake, more Corkonians, the last thing this country needs :rolleyes:

What? Since when did being from Cork County mean you weren't a Corkonian?

MRnotlob606

We all least now we won't have to go Dublin for our needles.