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Southsiders up in arms over area's new name

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  • #32
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


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

    This gear is massive (Dublin South Central here).


  • #33
    RADIUS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭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.


  • #34
    Hannibal Smith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,893 ✭✭✭Hannibal Smith


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


  • #35
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    RADIUS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭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 ---->>>


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  • #37
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Stillorgan Grove is in the Blackrock postal district

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


  • #38
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭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*


  • #39
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭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)


  • #40
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


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


  • #41
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,105 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #42
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,105 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    DMcL1971
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭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.


  • #44
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,105 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #45
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • #46
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭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 :confused:


  • #47
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #49
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    davet82 wrote: »
    really?

    would it have effectrd house prices or something :confused:
    Exactly that.


  • #50
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭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 :o


  • #51
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #52
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,186 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    9959 wrote: »
    75% of Terenure being 'working class' is news to me. Which parts?

    The servants quarters.


  • #53
    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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  • #54
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,006 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


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

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #55
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭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.


  • #56
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Terenure is definitely not 75% working class.
    I agree. Closer to 90%.


  • #57
    randy hickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    Does Terenure have one of those Cash For Gold outlets?


  • #58
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,129 ✭✭✭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 :confused:


  • #59
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭ [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.


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  • #61
    Jev/N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


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


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