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Southsiders up in arms over area's new name

davet82

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/southsiders-up-in-arms-over-areas-new-name-3308984.html

THE well-heeled residents of Dublin South are up in arms about their constituency's new name.

They are dissatisfied with the fact that they will no longer be identified as Southsiders but as residents of a new constituency called "Dublin-Rathdown" in the next general election.

ye think people have better things to be moaning about, would you really give a flying fcuk?

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FloatingVoter

Its not where you're from, its where you're going that matters.

This gear is massive (Dublin South Central here).

RADIUS

I propose we rename the jurisdiction of Finglas and Ballymun to Foxrock county council and rename Rathdown-Dublin to Darndale South.
Just to see what happens.

Hannibal Smith

Has anyone else noted the irony of a thread full of complaints about people complaining

FloatingVoter

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

Has anyone else noted the irony of a thread full of complaints about people complaining

No. We don't get ironing.

RADIUS

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

Has anyone else noted the irony of a thread full of complaints about people complaining

The Irony forum is that way ---->>>

Pherekydes

Larbre34 wrote: »

Stillorgan Grove is in the Blackrock postal district

Isn't it in the same postal district as Sallynoggin? Or Shankhill?

Zillah

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

75% of terenure is working class its only the rathfarnham end thats up their own nose

Er...the whole area surround Terenure College/Bushy Park is pretty affluent.

*not from Terenure*

flutterflye

I'm really not understanding that article at all

How does this new name mean that southsiders will nolonger be identified as southsiders?
What is it being changed from? Dunlaoghaire-Rathdown or what?
Also, why bother changing the name in the first place?
I'm confused - And I am a southsider! (Well I haven't lived there in a few years, but grew up there)

davet82

funny thing is i always just thought of 'southsiders' as people who lived on the other side of the liffey

Larbre34

Pherekydes wrote: »

Isn't it in the same postal district as Sallynoggin? Or Shankhill?

Nope, theyre in Dun Laoghaire. Blackrock ends at Cornelscourt-Deans Grange-Monkstown

Larbre34

flutterflye wrote: »

I'm really not understanding that article at all
How does this new name mean that southsiders will nolonger be identified as southsiders?
What is it being changed from? Dunlaoghaire-Rathdown or what?
Also, why bother changing the name in the first place?
I'm confused - And I am a southsider! (Well I haven't lived there in a few years, but grew up there)

The change is an effort to resolve some of this legitimate confusion.

There are Counties, Dun Laoire Rathdown, South Dublin, Fingal, Dublin City - these are County Council administrative areas

Then there are Dáil electoral constituencies which have some similar names but which are not administrative areas, just corrals of population used to elect TDs, the only relevance they have is every 5 or so years so you know which candidates are standing in your area or if you have a problem that you need to talk to a sitting TD about and you need to know who your TDs are.

DMcL1971

Pherekydes wrote: »

Isn't it in the same postal district as Sallynoggin? Or Shankhill?

It's historical. When my parents bought their house, about 50 years ago, in Leopardstown (which is not far from Stillorgan), there were not as many post offices as there are now and no post codes. So their postal address was that of their nearest sorting office, which was Blackrock.

Post codes weren't in common use in Dublin until the sixties. So my parents still use the address of Blackrock, County Dublin even though they have been in Dublin 18 since the mid sixties. It just wasn't called Dublin 18 when they moved there.

Blackrock and Dun Laoghaire are actually part of County Dublin from a postal district point of view even though most of the surrounding area is actually Dublin 18.

Larbre34

They tried to bring in a alpha numeric post code system of the type usually found in modern developed countries. However in Dublin 4 it was not approved of that Dublin 4 would effectively cease to exist so it never went ahead.

That's what you're dealing with.

melekalikimaka

sure my address is both cornlescourt and foxrock, but across the road is cabinteely and 20 meters behind me is blackrock... i choose to go with foxrock when asked however

davet82

Larbre34 wrote: »

They tried to bring in a alpha numeric post code system of the type usually found in modern developed countries. However in Dublin 4 it was not approved of that Dublin 4 would effectively cease to exist so it never went ahead.

That's what you're dealing with.

really?

would it have effectrd house prices or something

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

davet82 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/southsiders-up-in-arms-over-areas-new-name-3308984.html

ye think people have better things to be moaning about, would you really give a flying fcuk?

Nobody, but some status junkie in the Dail.

I'm from the area and I certainly don't give a rats arse, nor does anybody I know. It's the independent ffs, it's a rag of a paper, only fit for wrapping up a bag of chips.

Our man in Havana

This just an excuse for negative equity southsiders who have million euro mortgages on houses now worth sweet feck all to stop their perceived value from falling further in their own narrow view.

Our man in Havana

davet82 wrote: »

really?

would it have effectrd house prices or something

Exactly that.

davet82

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Exactly that.

maybe it would bother me if it were to knock 50k off the price of my house

Fratton Fred

Larbre34 wrote: »

The change is an effort to resolve some of this legitimate confusion.

There are Counties, Dun Laoire Rathdown, South Dublin, Fingal, Dublin City - these are County Council administrative areas

Then there are Dáil electoral constituencies which have some similar names but which are not administrative areas, just corrals of population used to elect TDs, the only relevance they have is every 5 or so years so you know which candidates are standing in your area or if you have a problem that you need to talk to a sitting TD about and you need to know who your TDs are.

so, DLRCOCO will remain as is, but Eamonn Gilmore, Mary Mitchell, Richard Boyd Barret and the other FGer are now going to represent Dublin Rathdown rather than Dun Laoghaire Rathdown?

good to see someone in the Dail has nothing better to do with their time.

kowloon

9959 wrote: »

75% of Terenure being 'working class' is news to me. Which parts?

The servants quarters.

Crann na Beatha

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end of the road

listen roysh, jeirs no way jis name change is happening loyk, roysh, toats jiscraceful if it joes.
<gets coat>

bb1234567

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

how were they southsiders when it was dun laoghaire - rathdown. nothing has changed really. reminds me of the twats in terenure that wanted to be d6. funny thing is, 75% of terenure is working class its only the rathfarnham end thats up their own nose

also, you didnt hear the extremely well heeled residents of dublin north complaining when their boundary was changed

Terenure is definitely not 75% working class.

snubbleste

bb1234567 wrote: »

Terenure is definitely not 75% working class.

I agree. Closer to 90%.

randy hickey

Does Terenure have one of those Cash For Gold outlets?

ceadaoin.

Larbre34 wrote: »

They tried to bring in a alpha numeric post code system of the type usually found in modern developed countries. However in Dublin 4 it was not approved of that Dublin 4 would effectively cease to exist so it never went ahead.

That's what you're dealing with.

Do you have a source for this? According to any article I've found the new postcodes would be based on the current ones. So it would be D04 XXX. So surely in that case D04 would just be the new D4

Cookie_Monster

Rathdown as a village / town no longer exists, so why does the townland persist when nowhere is actually called that anymore. Google maps can't even give an area for it.
It's a stupid name that has no meaning for the area it's supposed to represent, what was wrong with DL-Rathdown at least it gave you a pretty good idea where it was supposed to be. Dublin Rathdown could be anywhere. At the very least it shoudl be South Dublin-Rathdown.

keano_afc wrote: »

I work with a girl from Ballybrack and she puts her address down as Killiney, South Co. Dublin.

my fiancee has spent 8 years trying to convince me she's from Killiney, not Ballybrack. I'm having none of it.

[Deleted User]

The cat calling the kettle black here ffs.

If it's so unimportant why the hell is there a need to go on about it?

Boring people altogether. All round.

Jev/N

It's like the Dublin 6W anomaly :pac: