Why no Waterford city board?

ecksor wrote:

I'm inclined to grant Kilkenny a forum before Waterford.

I have read the thread that Mike65 linked to and it has disgusted me. First that the powers that be would presume to name and give representation to the 'cities' of their choice, and secondly because of the whiney, slack handed riposte from the Waterford types.

The facts are as follows:

The five cities of the republic are:
http://www.oasis.gov.ie/government_in_ireland/government_and_politics_at_local_level/local_authorities.html?PHPSESSID=15086a87ba66f1845babf92ea25839f5
as designated in the local government act 2001, here:
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA37Y2001.html

Since there are only five cities in Ireland, each of them is considered a 'major' city. The use of the term 'major' city has come in to common usage so the media do not have to refer to towns such as Kilkenny and Sligo, who aspire to have a City Council, when they are referring to actual cities. (I will not argue about city status; suffice it to say that the Local Government Acts down through the years supercede all charters and claims concerning cathedrals, etc.)

Just to illustrate, here are the populations of the 'major' cities of Ireland (CSO, Census 2002):
http://www.cso.ie/census/pdfs/vol1_entire.pdf (p.114)
(populations include immediate suburbs)

1. Dublin* 1,004,614
2. Cork* 186,239
3. Limerick* 86,998
4. Galway* 66,163
5. Waterford* 46,736
.
.
(11. Kilkenny 20,735)

* = City Council exists.

Although the Queen, in her jubilee year, has created a raft of cities in the north, it is fair to say that there are definitely only two 'major' cities:

Belfast 300,000 (approx.)
(London)Derry 85,000 (approx.)
(insert political appelation above!)

The city boards, therefore, must be as follows:
Dublin
Belfast
Cork
Limerick
Derry
Galway
Waterford
(although the newly created cities in the north, such as Newry, may be included they can be relatively small, and are not as significant)

If you are going to build a road, an airport or create a bulletin board, the only statistic that matters is the population of the target area. Clearly Waterford is a city and it's population is easily enough to secure a bulletin board on this site. As to creating a Kilkenny board first, that is ridiculous, unless you can prove that somehow kilkenny people post more and more interesting stuff - and lets not go down that farcical route!

It is quite simple, there are Waterford sites out there, that is where Waterford people will post when they are not looked after here. And thus to compare levels of posting on the Galway board, a city which boards.ie does support, and the Waterford segment of the south east board, which represents a city boards.ie does not support, is completely ridiculous. Build it and they will come.

As to the misguided Waterford people who are propping up this board; your whining makes me sick. When you are being shafted, make yourselves heard; I suggest that all Waterford people cease posting on this board until this situation has been rectified.

Cloud wrote:

There are no arguments against, we're just dragging our heels like a pestered mother.

I suppose it would require a major overhaul of the site, requiring significant downtime.

ecksor wrote:

At last, someone with a valid reason for having a waterford forum. I still think we should leave it a while for the reasons that Cloud mentioned though.

?? reasons

What reasons were given for the given for setting up the Galway or Limerick boards?

I would have thought you would just cover the entire country rather discriminate on an arbitrary basis.

And what reasons are "we" "leaving it a while" for? Didn't catch any of those reasons, at least any serious ones? Lads if you're seriously not going to create a Waterford board I think that's pretty bad form. You are just turning people away, and they will post elsewhere.