Inishowen Moved!

bettlebrox

Can you believe this:

A Government publication distributed throughout the 10 newest countries of the EU includes a map depicting the Inishowen Peninsula as part of the North.

Inishowen, nestled between Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle, is roughly the size of Co Louth and with an estimated 30,000 residents, it is more populated than Co Leitrim.

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1619755&issue_id=14096&eid=215411

Just shows how much them down there in Dublin know about Donegal! And this is the second time this has happened.

Do you think this shows how little the rest of the country knows about Donegal, and if our politicans should start complaining about this lack of recognision?

We're the second largest county in Ireland, we have the most northernly point in Ireland (NI or ROI). The second longest river enters the ocean in Donegal ... and some folk in Dublin think Inishowen is in Derry!

What do you think?

0lordy

I agree, though I don't believe this is an ignorance about Donegal specifically, this is a more fundamental lack of basic, basic knowledge about our country, and a slipshod, amateurish approach to gettin things right. For this to happen there are multiple lazy or incompetent people not doing their job properly.

Reminds me of the St. Patrick's Day postcard issue: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2006/0315/1306664481HM8PADDY_SDAYCARD.html

BTW, Galway is Ireland's second largest county, Mayo is next and Donegal is fourth. But maybe that's excluding Inishowen...

bettlebrox

0lordy wrote:

BTW, Galway is Ireland's second largest county, Mayo is next and Donegal is fourth. But maybe that's excluding Inishowen...

From what I remember from National School I was thinking Donegal was 3rd or 4th largest. But, googling around Donegal was listed as the 2nd, 3rd, & 4th biggest county in Ireland, so I just picked the biggest figure!

b0bsquish

was in Buncrana earlier today, I seen a call centre take a delivery marked for
Buncrana, Londonderry, Co Derry. Seems no-one told us that donegal has changed its name too!:rolleyes:

DonegalMan

0lordy wrote:

BTW, Galway is Ireland's second largest county, Mayo is next and Donegal is fourth.

From http://www.statoids.com/uie.html


County Sq Km.
Cork 7,460
Galway 5,940
Mayo 5,398
Donegal 4,831
Kerry 4,701
Tipperary 4,255
Clare 3,188
Limerick 2,686
Roscommon 2,463
Wexford 2,351
Meath 2,336
Kilkenny 2,062
Wicklow 2,025
Offaly 1,998
Cavan 1,891
Waterford 1,838
Sligo 1,796
Westmeath 1,763
Laoighis 1,720
Kildare 1,694
Leitrim 1,525
Monaghan 1,291
Longford 1,044
Dublin 922
Carlow 896
Louth 823

Donegal Lass

it may b 4th in area but def higher in the charts for the craic!:D

bettlebrox

Donegal Lass wrote:

it may b 4th in area but def higher in the charts for the craic!:D

Here, here!

geekGirl

I'm from Buncrana, living in Dublin and I often meet a lot of Dubs who think Donegal is part of Northen Ireland. The amount of people who ask me if I did A-levels instead of the leaving cert boggles me. A cival servent actually asked me that!! shocking !!

I find that non-Irish people are actually better at this as they all seem to know that Donegal is in the republic.

I think it must be worse for people from the Midlands though. They always complain that no-one knows where they are from. Carlow, Laois and that get it a lot. At least we are an interesting county and we don't take ourselves too seriously either.


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muffler

geekGirl wrote:

I often meet a lot of Dubs who think Donegal is part of Northen Ireland.

Thats why they're called Jackeens. Its jackasses by right but they couldnt spell anything with more than 8 letters so they changed it to jackeens

JoeyJJ

There was a fellow in a pub a few years ago in his 50's who said that there were no counties in ulster that were not part of norn iron. The we asked him what province Donegal, Mon and Cavan were part of. Idiot. He finally conceeded as everyone in the pub said he was wrong but you could see in his face he still thought he was right.

Star Lord

geekGirl wrote:

I'm from Buncrana, living in Dublin and I often meet a lot of Dubs who think Donegal is part of Northen Ireland.

I'm from Moville, living in Dublin, and compared to some of the accents here I think I sound shockingly norn-irish Only realized that when I heard my own voice on the radio!!! :eek:

il gatto

I wouldn't be suprised by something like that. I find that people in Dublin and the surrounding area have a shockingly poor knowledge of the country's geography. Some examples: I've delivered stuff to Ballinrobe in south Mayo which came to Sligo Airport instead of Galway. Ballinrobe is roughly twice as far from Sligo as it is from Galway. Likewise, I've delivered stuff to Kincaslagh that came to Sligo airport (80 miles away?) when Donegal Airport was about 2 miles away. My father has frequently made business calls in Monaghan because the division of the company he works for in Dublin a. Didn't know how to get to the place b. Thought Sligo was closer to Monaghan than Dublin.
Even though we, in the north west might not know our way around Cork or Waterford that well, I also think some of the more southerly counties are very uninformed about the top half of the country also. I suppose the west and north are really the forgotten regions of Ireland, both economically and socially.