Irish so-called "cities"

Victor wrote: »

Dublin City Coucnil is a hint.

Few cities have airports in them.

About 120,000 for the city, but there are quite a few suburbs and adjacent towns. from Ballincollig to Midleton and around the harbour, its about 280,000.

In contrast, if you take everything inside Larne-Bangor-Lisburn-Antrim, you are pushing to around 800,000-900,000, something many people don't appreciate.

Showing your inner northerner?

Aye. Well of the 4 towns/1 city in Lisburn it's only Lisburn that you could argue is even remotely part of Belfast. Antrim is 20 miles from Belfast. As you would find out if you ever flew into Belfast so callled international airport.

As for inner northerner I admit that my Scottish heritage sometimes makes me watch the pounds.... and pennies..... no bad thing imho.. you won't catch me slabbering about how many 100 thousand my house is worth one year then the next it being worth the price of a push up bra in pennies ffs. ;-)

bodhrandude wrote: »

I thought Tuam in County Galway would get a mention, is that not considered a city, probably the smallest in Ireland anyway.

Well for decades it was a sh1thole but it's really coming into it's own over the last few years, quite a pleasant little town with a few factories there and houses were reasonably priced also.

Although be careful if buying, if it's a nice house at a knockdown price there's a reason for that, best to find out who the neighbours are.

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I know you said it's unlikely but if you ever change your mind I'd recommend Cork as a city to visit.

I will consider it but whenever I think of cork I get an immediate image of Roy Keane... ha...

I always find this topic bizarre, as if we should be ashamed for calling anything but Dublin and Belfast cities. And then we get comparisons to places like London and New York.

Would people count the following UK places as cities? Edinburgh, Newcastle, Cardiff, Swansea? Because if you want to compare them to London you couldn't, but they are cities, the same way Cork, Limerick etc are. Most countries follow the same patterns of settlement, its simply to do with the Geography and population where cities are based and how large they become.

Django99 wrote: »

I always find this topic bizarre, as if we should be ashamed for calling anything but Dublin and Belfast cities. And then we get comparisons to places like London and New York.

Would people count the following UK places as cities? Edinburgh, Newcastle, Cardiff, Swansea? Because if you want to compare them to London you couldn't, but they are cities, the same way Cork, Limerick etc are. Most countries follow the same patterns of settlement, its simply to do with the Geography and population where cities are based and how large they become.

I agree that this sometimes can be a bizzare conversation, especially the idea that Dublin is some kind of country town just because it's not New York. By any measure Dublin is a major city excluding the great metropolises.

But I do think it is worth pointing out how silly it is for quite small towns in Ireland to be so desparate for the "city" label. This isn't evident in other countries. This results in things like the laughably named "city loop" in Sligo. There are 75 settlements in the UK with a population of more than 100k (so bigger than Limerick), only a small chunk of whom are called cities and of the rest I doubt any are campaigning for the label. Indeed, the great cities of Manchester and Leeds do not have "city halls", they have "town halls" and there's no campaign for a renaming. Their town halls are rightly a source of pride. Yet in Sligo as far as I know the town's council chamber is known as the "city hall" even though the town historically was not known as a city!!!

It's time we, as a country, ditched this pointless and bizarre insecurity!

please helpThank YOU wrote: »

400 more New Jobs for Limerick today Northern Trust Financial Service to add to there 1000 Jobs already in Limerick.?

Lots of work for the lads in Southhill and Moyross so.

Don't take it so serious lads, Galway is getting lots of slagging on the threads as well.

of course it must be noted that dublins growth economic and populations growth is massively being hindered by DCC...