Where is rural Ireland.

Ush1 · 01-10-2019 06:22PM

It doesn't exist, it's been long eroded and destroyed by ribbon development and one off housing.

Tell me how · 01-10-2019 06:26PM

Ush1 wrote: »

It doesn't exist, it's been long eroded and destroyed by ribbon development and one off housing.

Where do you think the 8M+ plus people were living 170 years ago?

Edgware · 01-10-2019 06:52PM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

If some culchie thinks because the live in a town they don't live in rural Ireland that is their problem.

Whereas Dubs try to forget that most of them are descendants of people who lived (or still live) in the tenements and their grannies were scrubbers who serviced the Tans down in Monto

whisky_galore · 01-10-2019 07:06PM

It's where people don't ask you for "spare change".

Paddy223 · 01-10-2019 07:13PM

I would classify my area as rural Ireland. The nearest basic shop and pub is 10 minute drive and nearest town is 20 mins. Surrounded by nothing's but fields, hills and sheep. On top of this we have no ADSL broadband and instead of magnificent speeds of 1mbps with three Ireland.

The Tetrarch · 01-10-2019 07:42PM

Edgware wrote: »

Whereas Dubs try to forget that most of them are:
1. descendants of people who lived (or still live) in the tenements
2. and their grannies were scrubbers who serviced the Tans down in Monto

I live in Dublin.
Like many Dubliners I was born elsewhere, in my case in mid-Leinster.
My grandmother ran a pub and farm in mid-Leinster.
I live in the suburbs.

I can easily forget your image of Dubliners.
We are not West Brits, or Jackeens, or any of your fantasies.

ToddyDoody · 01-10-2019 07:48PM

The Tetrarch wrote: »

Anywhere they moan about Dublin.

The only moaning I heard about Dublin outside of Dublin was to do with the media. That RTE is too Dublin dominant and that many things which happen outside of Dublin aren't reported on.

Ush1 · 01-10-2019 08:50PM

Tell me how wrote: »

Where do you think the 8M+ plus people were living 170 years ago?

In much smaller structures within much smaller areas with way less roads.

Upforthematch · 01-10-2019 10:03PM

Rural Ireland is where people say they go up to Dublin!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 01-10-2019 10:36PM

Upforthematch wrote: »

Rural Ireland is where people say they go up to Dublin!

Some of us go down to Dublin.

Edgware · 02-10-2019 08:47AM

Margot Big Threat wrote: »

Some of us go down to Dublin.

Correct use of grammar dictates that you will always use "up" when travelling to the capital city. Of course if you regard Belfast as your capital or indeed London then it would be quite appropriate to use "down" if indicating that you are travelling to Dublin.

Edgware · 02-10-2019 08:49AM

The Tetrarch wrote: »

I live in Dublin.
Like many Dubliners I was born elsewhere, in my case in mid-Leinster.
My grandmother ran a pub and farm in mid-Leinster.
I live in the suburbs.

I can easily forget your image of Dubliners.
We are not West Brits, or Jackeens, or any of your fantasies.

If born elsewhere you are not a Dubliner but I understand your wish to leave the Bog of Allen behind and claim to be a native of the leafy suburbs of suburban Dublin

fryup · 02-10-2019 09:03AM

flagmount co clare, the land that time forgot

begsbyOnaTrain · 02-10-2019 09:09AM

If you've never had a thousands strong candlelit prayer procession with "Dealers out" placards in your locality, you probably live in Rural Ireland.

IAMAMORON · 02-10-2019 09:54AM

Someone posted earlier about rural Ireland being everyone else outside of Dublin. Very intriguing and it got me thinking about other city dwellers from Belfast, Cork Limerick, Tallaght and Galway. I still don't mention the words Kilkenny and city in the same sentence. Let's be honest Kilkenny is still a town with a big castle in it and a pub called Langtons were Gards and nurses meet to get drunk together and have casual sexual encounters after they dance and shout "yahoo" at each other for a few hours on a Saturday night. One night club does not a city make, no matter how many cathedrals there are. I hope you are listening Longford, Athlone, Sligo and Waterford. Oh yes Waterford I have had my eye on you for a while.

Here the lines are drawn between general culchie behaviours and the more (or less) civil behaviours of the big city smokers. Waterford is a prime example. An old port city with a Norman twist. Identifying with Munster while acting very Leinster indeed, the stench of betrayal, how do you live with yourselves?

The plight of the Corkonian must be tough. Even after tackling the inherent problems of dialect and accent it must really sting to question ones existence, particularly if your mid west like BallinCollig or somewhere out the Macroom road, not good. The smell of cow shight must be everywhere around there and yet your still heading out to Washington street at the weekend looking to pull fine things from Montenotte or Douglas, one with a polished accent and brown eyes, something to show your pals like. A tough start lets be honest, the boat to Swansea seems a viable alternative. The question still remains if your from Cork, are you city or county, hurling or football, soccer or rugby , brown eyed or blue? Do you hang around eating Vegan on Lavitts key or are you taking the bus to Cobh for ice creams? What to do like? Please see below for the night club acid test.

Your not getting away with it either Limerick. Although you do get a pass as there is a very distinct line formed between your culchies and townies. You either come from a farm or the gubberment pays for your house, I get it, we have that in west Dublin too, I understand. It is regrettable that you have to share the river Shannon with a pile of tattooed numpties who are hell bent on eradicating each other by force alone. If I became mayor of Limerick I would throw them all naked into a gated Thomand Park and tell them that the last man alive gets a lifetimes worth of free electricity, peat briquettes and eat all you want for a year voucher with Abrakebra, that would sort it out, problem solved.

Your getting away with it for the moment Belfast and Galway , but I will be back.

Everyone should be aware that the concept of a town being a city if it has a cathedral is bullshight made up by your parents when you where in the car going on summer holidays, it is simply not true. The actual genuine identifier of a city is whether or not it houses more than one nightclub which is open seven nights a week until 3 in the morning at least. If it doesn't it is not a city , simples.

Tell me how · 02-10-2019 11:19AM

^^^^^
Cool story.
Next to nothing to do with the thread mind, but sure so what.

jmayo · 02-10-2019 11:20AM

The Tetrarch wrote: »

I live in Dublin.
Like many Dubliners I was born elsewhere, in my case in mid-Leinster.
My grandmother ran a pub and farm in mid-Leinster.
I live in the suburbs.

I can easily forget your image of Dubliners.
We are not West Brits, or Jackeens, or any of your fantasies.

Nothing worse than a wantabee.;)

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Someone posted earlier about rural Ireland being everyone else outside of Dublin. Very intriguing and it got me thinking about other city dwellers from Belfast, Cork Limerick, Tallaght and Galway. I still don't mention the words Kilkenny and city in the same sentence. Let's be honest Kilkenny is still a town with a big castle in it and a pub called Langtons were Gards and nurses meet to get drunk together and have casual sexual encounters after they dance and shout "yahoo" at each other for a few hours on a Saturday night. One night club does not a city make, no matter how many cathedrals there are. I hope you are listening Longford, Athlone, Sligo and Waterford. Oh yes Waterford I have had my eye on you for a while.

Here the lines are drawn between general culchie behaviours and the more (or less) civil behaviours of the big city smokers. Waterford is a prime example. An old port city with a Norman twist. Identifying with Munster while acting very Leinster indeed, the stench of betrayal, how do you live with yourselves?

The plight of the Corkonian must be tough. Even after tackling the inherent problems of dialect and accent it must really sting to question ones existence, particularly if your mid west like BallinCollig or somewhere out the Macroom road, not good. The smell of cow shight must be everywhere around there and yet your still heading out to Washington street at the weekend looking to pull fine things from Montenotte or Douglas, one with a polished accent and brown eyes, something to show your pals like. A tough start lets be honest, the boat to Swansea seems a viable alternative. The question still remains if your from Cork, are you city or county, hurling or football, soccer or rugby , brown eyed or blue? Do you hang around eating Vegan on Lavitts key or are you taking the bus to Cobh for ice creams? What to do like? Please see below for the night club acid test.

Your not getting away with it either Limerick. Although you do get a pass as there is a very distinct line formed between your culchies and townies. You either come from a farm or the gubberment pays for your house, I get it, we have that in west Dublin too, I understand. It is regrettable that you have to share the river Shannon with a pile of tattooed numpties who are hell bent on eradicating each other by force alone. If I became mayor of Limerick I would throw them all naked into a gated Thomand Park and tell them that the last man alive gets a lifetimes worth of free electricity, peat briquettes and eat all you want for a year voucher with Abrakebra, that would sort it out, problem solved.

Your getting away with it for the moment Belfast and Galway , but I will be back.

Everyone should be aware that the concept of a town being a city if it has a cathedral is bullshight made up by your parents when you where in the car going on summer holidays, it is simply not true. The actual genuine identifier of a city is whether or not it houses more than one nightclub which is open seven nights a week until 3 in the morning at least. If it doesn't it is not a city , simples.

So you are basically a dub who has spent some time in Cork and the odd weekend in Kilkenny, probably on a stag or something similar.
You don't display any in depth knowledge of Limerick and Waterford and then totally leave out Belfast and Galway.
Although you may be back to tell us about the Galway nightclubs you visited on a stag weekend in the West.

Oh and I can point out a couple of places in Dublin where guards and nurses hook up and even one where you can throw in the prison officers into the mix.

Naked Lepper · 02-10-2019 11:25AM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Wouldn’t even include the other “cities”. It’s pretty much anywhere outside the M50, not including the North.

realistically there is only one city in Ireland anyway, so I guess you could anywhere outside Dublin might be considered rural Ireland.

CelticRambler · 02-10-2019 11:30AM

Tell me how wrote: »

Where do you think the 8M+ plus people were living 170 years ago?

15 to a room in Dublin, and no-one had holiday homes in the Wesht ... :P

jameson4me · 02-10-2019 11:33AM

West of the M50

IAMAMORON · 02-10-2019 11:35AM

jmayo wrote: »

Nothing worse than a wantabee.;)

So you are basically a dub who has spent some time in Cork and the odd weekend in Kilkenny, probably on a stag or something similar.
You don't display any in depth knowledge of Limerick and Waterford and then totally leave out Belfast and Galway.
Although you may be back to tell us about the Galway nightclubs you visited on a stag weekend in the West.

Oh and I can point out a couple of places in Dublin where guards and nurses hook up and even one where you can throw in the prison officers into the mix.

Do you know what the population of Mayo City is?

wakka12 · 02-10-2019 12:29PM

Personally, I'd consider anywhere outside Dublin ,Cork, Galway ,Waterford and Limericks metro areas to be rural

But I think when people talk about 'rural ireland' they specifically refer to the struggling economically and socailly depressed towns which are usually located in the west and midlands , because obviously the fact a town is small in size or relatively rural or even geographically isolated from other bigger cities is not an inherent problem in itself, ie. westport ,dingle,kenmare, carrick on shannon etc I think are clearly doing just fine despite sharing similar characteristics with some of the rural towns that are less well off

odyssey06 · 02-10-2019 12:36PM

ToddyDoody wrote: »

The only moaning I heard about Dublin outside of Dublin was to do with the media. That RTE is too Dublin dominant and that many things which happen outside of Dublin aren't reported on.

fwiw Many things which happen in Dublin aren't reported on either... not considered news by the RTE filter.

Feisar · 02-10-2019 01:20PM

begsbyOnaTrain wrote: »

If you've never had a thousands strong candlelit prayer procession with "Dealers out" placards in your locality, you probably live in Rural Ireland.

Well, this is a good ****ing laugh, ain't it? You sweat that ****e out of your system. 'Cause if I come back and it's still here... I'll ****ing kick it out. Okay?

ToddyDoody · 02-10-2019 05:00PM

Another good indicator of where rural Ireland is would be in counties that share things like local radio stations and political electoral areas e.g. Carlow / Kilkenny, Laois / Offaly, Cavan / Monaghan, Donegal / Sligo / Leitrim.

Ipso · 02-10-2019 07:30PM

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Another good indicator of where rural Ireland is would be in counties that share things like local radio stations and political electoral areas e.g. Carlow / Kilkenny, Laois / Offaly, Cavan / Monaghan, Donegal / Sligo / Leitrim.

How the hell that happened, I'll never know.

Church on Tuesday · 02-10-2019 08:14PM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

If some culchie thinks because the live in a town they don't live in rural Ireland that is their problem.

Nah, that would make them a Townie Raymond.

Where is rural Ireland.

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