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Where should the next city in Ireland be?

John Doe1

So there are currently 11 cities in Ireland, 5 in the north and 6 in the south (although Kilkenny is not an administrative city and Belfast and Dublin are the only 'real' cities by world standards:P )

Based on population and not being strictly speaking a suburb, Bangor (58,000) and Drogheda (38,000) would be the next cities but what place do think deserves to be a city?

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Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Drogheda! City on the Boyne. Every Drog has it's day. Who let the Drogs out? Who who who who who who... Etc

fleet_admiral

Sligo. The jewel of the northwest

wazky

Cork.

greenflash

Ireland just about has the population for two cities. Everything else from Cork down is a town no regardless of cathedrals, charters or whatever.

fleet_admiral

greenflash wrote: »

Ireland just about has the population for two cities. Everything else from Cork down is a town no regardless of cathedrals, charters or whatever.

Cark isnt a city, its just a big-ish town

jamesbere

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Cark isnt a city, its just a big-ish town

Blasphemy

diomed

Dun Laoghaire.

greenflash

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Cark isnt a city, its just a big-ish town

Thanks for backing me up on that.

(Dublin and Belfast are the only two real cities on the island)

John Doe1

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Sligo. The jewel of the northwest

Sligo people seem to think it is a city already, there is the Sligo City Hotel I believe, can anyone shed any light on that?

Harry Palmr

Sligo of course

Whatever happened to your 'wan' who would extol the virtues of that town?

Sir Arthur Daley

Put it on an island.

Sulla Felix

I think we should get in ahead of the pack and have one of those mega-cities like Lagos. An combination of intensive breeding and building works could see us there by 2025.

Super-Rush

I'd say its time to upgrade Dublin from shit hole to city.

nordydan

Downpatrick. Home of the patron saint.

And it has an ASDA

Sir Arthur Daley

wazky wrote: »

What about intensive in-breeding?, if that were the case alot of Irish towns and villages are very advanced.

Offaly springs to mind.

Calibos

Bray is the 9th largest urban area in Ireland after Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Drogheda, Dundalk and Swords.

For Forks Sake

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Sligo of course

Whatever happened to your 'wan' who would extol the virtues of that town?

We had her silenced. Say nathin.

Frosty McSnowballs

Super-Rush wrote: »

I'd say its time to upgrade Dublin from shit hole to city.

Says yer man that puts the 'low' in Carlow.

RobbingBandit

Tallaght, it could be moved offshore like L.A. in Escape from L.A., or underground, or we could just burn it to the ground, what was the question again?!

dundalkfc10

Dundalk!

Westernyelp

Tubbercurry obviously

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

Dundalk!

Heh.

i r legend

greenflash wrote: »

Ireland just about has the population for two cities. Everything else from Cork down is a town no regardless of cathedrals, charters or whatever.

Ireland needs more regional centralisation tbh not to create more small cities. Cark wouldn't even count as a city as it is. We should be pushing to expand Cork,Limerick,Waterford and Galway as MAJOR regional population hubs and moving away from the backwards quasi rural towns that dot the landscape. Maybe a new one in the midlands? But they'd wreck it and have cowdung all over the lovely glass office buildings in a few days.

major bill

Wexford Town was always a decent spot

Wexford City has a ring to it

greenflash

i r legend wrote: »

Ireland needs more regional centralisation tbh not to create more small cities. Cark wouldn't even count as a city as it is. We should be pushing to expand Cork,Limerick,Waterford and Galway as MAJOR regional population hubs and moving away from the backwards quasi rural towns that dot the landscape. Maybe a new one in the midlands? But they'd wreck it and have crowding all over the lovely glass office buildings in a few days.

Is anyone actually able to read?

fleet_admiral

major bill wrote: »

Wexford Town was always a decent spot

Wexford City has a ring to it

One of the finest pubs in Ireland; Thomas Moore is there. Wexford is a cracking place

Christy Browne

There are no guidelines for cities, you can't say they're not "real" cities and these ones are

KeithM89

Duracell Bunny wrote: »

Heh.

Says the man who nominated Chernobyl Drogheda.

i r legend

greenflash wrote: »

Isi anyone actually able to read?

Yeah yer mudder

John Doe1

Anyone remember the whole National Spatial Strategy Gateway City thing?

Letterkenny, Sligo, Dundalk and 3 midlands towns joined together were meant to made into cities by with a population of nearly 100,000 for each by 2020, its not going well :P