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Cork as the capital
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Balmed Out wrote: »The roads of Cork with the exception of that one road leading to Dublin are amongst the worst in Ireland. Drove to Donegal last summer up through the centre and down through the west and couldnt get over how much better the road network is. Havent used the bus service regularly in years but remember always going an hour early of 2pm shifts in a city centre hotel as the bus seemed to take a lunch break despite the timetable you cant rely on it at all.
The roads are a bit shíte alright, but we have more kms than any other county - 12330km between the City and County combined and maybe less funds to keep them all maintained?
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-road-network-pq-1784448-Nov2014/
I doesn't help that a lot of them seem to just get washed away everytime there's a bit of rain.
As for the question - I dunno, if we did that the place'd be full of Dubs - like a permanent Jazz Weekend.
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The Butt Hurt is flowing very strong here.
More boggers though.
Nah, Dublin has a lot more boggers than Cork! It's the boggers first choice...Most people in Dublin have never even been to Cork.
Most people in Dublin have never been outside of Dublin and think it's some kind of global metropolis up there with the likes of London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles
I had relatives over from London a few years ago and the word they used to describe Dublin was "Rural". 0 -
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zetalambda wrote: »The Butt Hurt is flowing very strong here.
Nah, Dublin has a lot more boggers than Cork! It's the boggers first choice...
Most people in Dublin have never been outside of Dublin and think it's some kind of global metropolis up there with the likes of London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles I had relatives over from London a few years ago and the word they used to describe Dublin was "Rural".
:rolleyes: If your going tell a spoof try make it bit believable, Unless your talking in the 1600,s Dublin is well up there for a city of its Size,I haven't met anyone who says Dublin is comparable to London,Paris,los Angelous,newyork,:rolleyes::rolleyes: etc
It is comparable to Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon,Porto,Copehagen,Oslo,Manchester,liverpool,Amsterdam, etc etc
And how do you know most people in Dublin haven't been outside it ? All i ever here every long weekend is that the resorts around the country are brisling, now with Dublin having the majority of the population living there, them folks who go to our resorts have to be coming from somewhere, I wonder where ??0 -
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Noddyholder wrote: »:rolleyes: If your going tell a spoof try make it bit believableNoddyholder wrote: »I have seen that said a few times here & before, When I worked in a bar back in the canary's islands back in the day it was owned by a Cork couple,(lovely people) & attracted lot of Corkonians, And as the folks were singing the banks of our lovely lee every night, you would here many a folk shouting tis the real capital bhoy.
Being a Cavan man myself & working in the bar trade for many a year I heard & seeing it all, sure tis great craic until it isn't.
Maybe you should practice what you preach. A pig farmer working in a bar in the canary's:D:D 0 -
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The whole "Cork is the real capital" thing seems to be a Dublin phenomenon. I've never heard anyone (from Cork or elsewhere) claim Cork is the capital, yet I've heard numerous "and they call themselves the real capital" statements from Dubs. Reminds me of the viz letter:
It's the same with Irish immigrants to the USA. I've heard far more people giving out about people seeking special status for Irish immigrants than I have ever actually heard people seek special status for Irish people.0 -
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zetalambda wrote: »Most people in Dublin have never been outside of Dublin and think it's some kind of global metropolis up there with the likes of London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles I had relatives over from London a few years ago and the word they used to describe Dublin was "Rural".
That's just people being condescending though.
I mean, I wouldn't even describe a town the size of Westport as Rural.
Dublin isn't a global metropolis, and no one I know in Dublin thinks it is. It's a good sized city.0 -
Muff, Co.DonegalCrabRevolution wrote: »The whole "Cork is the real capital" thing seems to be a Dublin phenomenon. I've never heard anyone (from Cork or elsewhere) claim Cork is the capital, yet I've heard numerous "and they call themselves the real capital" statements from Dubs. Reminds me of the viz letter:
It's the same with Irish immigrants to the USA. I've heard far more people giving out about people seeking special status for Irish immigrants than I have ever actually heard people seek special status for Irish people.
Absolutely, I've lived in Cork all my life and still have yet to meet someone who actually thinks it should be the capital of Ireland. I have heard and read many people not from Cork (almost exclusively Dubs) claiming that Cork people think this though.
Think it comes from the olden attitudes of when there was 'The Pale' and 'the rest' of the country, which is full of farmers and sheep.
What I find most amusing about it is that Cork City (274,000) and suburbs has more than half the population of Dublin City (553,165). Even total numbers in each county are Cork - 542,196 and Dublin 1,345,402. The way some Dubs go on you'd swear they were living in Tokyo.0 -
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zetalambda wrote: »Even if everyone in Cork is a bogger, there's still more boggers in Dublin!
I'd say a lot of people don't understand you.
It's all about perspective, certain people abroad would consider the entire island to be occupied by some kind of leprechaun like boggers and not even hear any distinction between a Belfast, Dublin and Cork accent.
Internationally, Dublin's a fairly low key and small European city. By official city population (and bear in mind all cities have big hinterlands, this is not unique to Dublin) it's the 49th in the EU or 40th by metropolitan area (1,158,000) putting it just behind Glasgow and just ahead of Cologne, Lille and Antwerp.
Belfast is 77th (580,000)
Cork comes in at 399,216. The EU list doesn't go down that far, but it would be just slightly smaller than Hull in the and bigger than Plymouth. French cities : Nancy and Claremont Ferrand are a bit bigger than Cork, but not much.0
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