Do we really need Dublin?

Yes, in broad general terms, Dublin is a kip.

That's why God created that little bit of Meath with Bettystown in it. It's not only to allow people from Navan to wash themselves in the sea once a year, but it acts as a buffer zone, a bit like the DMZ between North and South Korea. All it needs is a few landmines.

It had air traffic artificially sent there due to US immigration but I never remember it being the biggest and best airport. It was rather irritating to have to fly to Shannon from Dublin when flying to the US. DAA took the debt from Shannon at left it to stand on its own. Airlines cancelled the routes from Shannon due to lack of passengers and moved them to other airports where they got them. Not all even went to from Dublin in the end. You can’t blame Dublin for the lack of use after the years of support only that they stopped subsidising it

Yes we need Dublin and Dublin needs the Country.

Stupid Thread. Close it now.

Shannon Airport was never the biggest airport in Ireland. It had artificial traffic due to the "Shannon Stopover" rule, that mandated that any plane that crossed the country had to stop there. Flights out of or into Dublin to or from the US had to, by law, stop in Shannon on the way. As did transatlantic flights to or from other European countries that just happened to fly over us. Bit like making everyone heading in or out of Dublin on the M50 pull in at the Red Cow for no good reason. Which is actually a very good idea, if you own a coffee shop at the Red Cow, but a complete waste of time otherwise.

Not property tax

We're doing this, I see.....

Oh yes it is... 😀

Quiet you, that's enough from the cheap seats....

Large companys want to located in a city close to an airport with acess to 1000s of potential workers if Google moved to Cork they, d pay the same corporate tax rate, whether you like dublin or not its a modern city with many new offices hotels built in the last 10 years young people tend to move to city's because there's a large range of jobs there also they need acess to fast broadband networks if most young people lived in Cork or Galway google would have opened a campus there every country needs a large capital city with an international airport there's 3 or 4 large new office buildings being built in dublin. I wonder will they ever be fully leased out now that alot of people work from home company's like Google look at locations for reasons is it close to the UK. Has it got a modern airport and plenty of modern office space when the choose a campus location

If Dublin, London, Paris or Rome were to retain all the wealth and taxes earned, stoped sharing and supporting rural communities the cities would simply be unbelievable. Quality of life would massively improve and more and more people would gravitate to the capitals, public transport would be instantly upgraded, infrastructure would improve beyond measure and amenities would be plentiful and enriching. Dublin already washes it's own face, not a cent goes to enrich the city from rural areas, it's a one way system, the money goes out of the capital to help rural areas.

Contrastingly, rural areas would suffer immensely from the withdrawal of billions of euro per year from Dublin along with enhanced level of people leaving rural areas to move to the capital or abroad. Roads, infrastructure, motorways unused by the capitals population would fall in to disrepair, communities would be put under huge financial pressure and services would be slashed. 

Anyone wishing for rural emancipation from the cities either has a pure hatred for rural areas. I just don’t understand it. Moronic economic & social suicide talk.

I can see by your post history you've a long long obsession with Dublin along with a deep perverted hatred for your capital for whatever reason. I'd build a bridge, try and get over it and concentrate on something positive.

Reads like a very poorly written plot of a Walking Dead spin off.

If ties were severed between cities and rural areas, then cities would starve.

With the money saved the Capital could desalinate, pipe water from abroad still & sparkling!! We'd build monster windfarms offshore etc.. our North Dublin farms are some of the biggest with some of the biggest yields in the country.

Don't worry, we'd be fine.

It doesn't work like that Ray,

Most cities and towns in Ireland are a kip, but we move on

You've been slating Dublin and Dubliners for years on boards.ie poor uncle tom! I just dealt with you and your post😉 Get over the fetish, move on, get over it, indulge in something positive, visit the Dublin forum, ask about the city and what it was to offer, come and visit, get off the keyboard, you'll learn something.

Read the post, we'll be able to afford it. We don't have the rest of the country to support.

The whole thread is a farce, stupid moronic immature idea that would decimate rural Ireland that's simply roiling up the usual mouth breathing keyboard warriors that haven't a clue about their country outside their front garden.

Go to the outskirts of the towns and you see it very differently.

Every town or city has its bad area, with cities its easier to notice as it becomes an issue within the city itself.

Not sure what unemployment rate has to do with anything though