Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Where should the next city in Ireland be?

Options
  • 28-07-2014 11:26pm
    #1
    John Doe1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭


    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?


«1345

Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭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


  • Options
    #3
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Sligo. The jewel of the northwest


  • Options
    #4
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Cork.


  • Options
    #5
    greenflash
    Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭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.


  • Options
    #6
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭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


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    jamesbere
    Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Cark isnt a city, its just a big-ish town

    Blasphemy


  • Options
    #8
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Dun Laoghaire.


  • Options
    #9
    greenflash
    Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭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)


  • Options
    #10
    John Doe1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭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?


  • Options
    #11
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Sligo of course

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


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Put it on an island.


  • Options
    #13
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭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.


  • Options
    #14
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


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


  • Options
    #15
    nordydan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭nordydan


    Downpatrick. Home of the patron saint.

    And it has an ASDA


  • Options
    #16
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭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.


  • Options
    #17
    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,805 ✭✭✭Calibos


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


  • Options
    #18
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,503 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Options
    #19
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭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. :)


  • Options
    #20
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,098 ✭✭✭✭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?!


  • Options
    #21
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    Dundalk!


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    Tubbercurry obviously


  • Options
    #23
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    Dundalk!

    Heh.


  • Options
    #24
    i r legend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 17 ✭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.


  • Options
    #25
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Wexford Town was always a decent spot

    Wexford City has a ring to it


  • Options
    #26
    greenflash
    Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭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?


  • Options
    #27
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭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


  • Options
    #28
    Christy Browne
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Christy Browne


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


  • Options
    #29
    KeithM89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    Duracell Bunny wrote: »
    Heh.

    Says the man who nominated Chernobyl Drogheda.


  • Options
    #30
    i r legend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 17 ✭i r legend


    greenflash wrote: »
    Isi anyone actually able to read?
    Yeah yer mudder


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #31
    John Doe1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭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


Advertisement