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I.T colleges that rearrange the letters

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  • #32
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    vienne86 wrote: »
    UCG supposedly became NUIG.......but I know a few guys working there who still call it UCG. Hard enough to change these habits.
    My old lad went to UCG and still calls it UCG.

    He also used to convert punts to pre-decimal £sd, but had to finally come to grips with the punt when we got the euro.


  • #33
    Captain Chaos
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Dundalk IT abbreviation is DKIT. What does the K stand for. Or the Y in LYIT? Using this system Tralee could be TEIT.

    Because DIT is already taken. So it like the car reg's system D reg Dublin, DL Donegal.


  • #34
    Just a little Samba
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    veryangryman wrote: »
    Inspired by the thread on funny place names, is it a coincidence that tralee and Galway rearrange the letters to not sound rude. GMIT and the epic ITT specifically

    Well GMIT is Galway Mayo Institute of Technology because they have a campus in Mayo.
    Weirdly enough they also have a campus in Sligo, so maybe it should be GMSIT?


  • #35
    BrianBoru00
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    Aren't some ITs trying to make themselves more important like the Waterford Higher Institute of Technology . . . which would cause problems in Sliso


  • #36
    gizmo555
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    If Blanchardstown IT opened a satellite campus in Castleknock, would that be a BIT on the side?


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  • #37
    Just a little Samba
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    gizmo555 wrote: »
    If Blanchardstown IT opened a satellite campus in Castleknock, would that be a BIT on the side?

    I don't know about that but Blanchardstown, DIT and Tallaght IT are all going to merge in the next year or two with the main campus being Grangegorman to form a new university, but I can't for the life of me remember that the new university will be called.


  • #38
    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,744 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    DART stands for Dublin Area Rapid Transit. Growing up I always hoped Fermanagh would get their own version
    Being a Simpson's fan at the time I was in San Francisco/Bay Area, I thought their version was much better. :)


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
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    Just a little Samba wrote: »
    Well GMIT is Galway Mayo Institute of Technology because they have a campus in Mayo.
    Weirdly enough they also have a campus in Sligo, so maybe it should be GMSIT?
    Do they? St. Angela's is part of NUIG.

    Galway RTC rebranded itself directly to GMIT - the Castlebar campus was already established a few years when all the RTCs rebranded.

    Edit: If the Galway-Mayo, Sligo and Letterkenny ITs merge they would be something like the Connacht-Ulster Technological University.
    C-U TU?


  • #40
    Jet Black
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    gizmo555 wrote: »
    If Blanchardstown IT opened a satellite campus in Castleknock, would that be a BIT on the side?

    Why did they call it ITB? Sounds like a bowel problem.


  • #41
    PeteFalk78
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    Carlow-Laois Institute of Technology?


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  • #42
    Larianne
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    Jet Black wrote: »
    Why did they call it ITB? Sounds like a bowel problem.

    Or a connective tissue...


  • #43
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Do they? St. Angela's is part of NUIG.

    Galway RTC rebranded itself directly to GMIT - the Castlebar campus was already established a few years when all the RTCs rebranded.

    Edit: If the Galway-Mayo, Sligo and Letterkenny ITs merge they would be something like the Connacht-Ulster Technological University.
    C-U TU?

    I know its a stretch but if they could open a satelite in Navan.


  • #44
    Just a little Samba
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Do they? St. Angela's is part of NUIG.

    Right you are. My mistake.


  • #45
    jmayo
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    vienne86 wrote: »
    UCG supposedly became NUIG.......but I know a few guys working there who still call it UCG. Hard enough to change these habits.

    To some it will always be UCG and the RTC.
    Oh and the place in castlebar will be the mental or the "big house".
    conorh91 wrote: »
    My old lad went to UCG and still calls it UCG.

    He also used to convert punts to pre-decimal £sd, but had to finally come to grips with the punt when we got the euro.

    And fair play to him.
    Don't forget about MILES.

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • #46
    Bummer1234
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    PeteFalk78 wrote: »
    Carlow-Laois Institute of Technology?

    And Cavan-Leitrim Institute of Technology.


  • #47
    Egginacup
    Site Banned Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Egginacup


    Tipperary-Waterford Institute of Technology ?

    Kilkenny-Waterford Institute of Technology (KWIT)


  • #48
    murpho999
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    Think I have worked with a few graduates from Cork University of New Technologies in my time.


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