Vote for Dublin!

Vorsprung

Just saw this over on the Cork City board. I expect to be paying €400 for O'Connell St when this comes out in the shops. And not O'Connell St in Cork (or Limerick!)

Get voting!!

Roscommon are in the lead with 700 odd votes, Dublin only has 285, fair bit of work to be done lads!

Go to www.monopoly.ie and vote for Cork to make sure it beats Dublin, etc. to the top spot on the new All-Ireland Monopoly Board.
YOUR COUNTY NEEDS YOU!!! DO IT, DO IT, DO IT.



Hasbro, the makers of the world’s most famous property board game Monopoly, are calling on the people of Ireland to get behind their county and vote to be included on the first ever All-Ireland Monopoly board. Competition is expected to be fierce with space for only 22 of the 32 counties to feature. By logging onto www.monopoly.ie the people of Ireland are being given the chance to vote for their county to be featured on the new Monopoly All-Ireland Here & Now board to be released in October.

The website, which goes officially live today, also features a leader board showing a track of how each county is performing. Until voting ends on May 25th, each person can cast one vote a day - the more votes a county gets, the further up the leader board it goes. The top 22 counties will be guaranteed a place on the board with the top spot, going to the county with the most votes. So Sligo could conceivably become the new Shrewsbury Road or Cork could take over from Grafton Street. For over 70 years the Monopoly board has represented the most valuable locations in Dublin, but for the first time, the people of Ireland can vote to get their county on the board. Counties will be decided not by the cost of property or its notoriety but on the passion of its people. The counties that make it onto the board will be represented by their most popular visitor attraction. According Hasbro’s National Sales Manager, Anne Dermody: “We have always been amazed at the level of interest and passion that surrounds Monopoly. Now it’s up to the people of Ireland to have their say and to ensure that their county is included on the new board. Those who don’t vote will find that their county will be left out. If the residents of Dublin fail to vote it is entirely possible that the country’s capital will be left off the board.” Politicians, County Councillors and Monopoly lovers are being asked to rally their county’s population to vote in a bid to ensure that their county has its best chance to feature on the board. Monopoly is produced under the Parker brand at Hasbro’s plant in Waterford where 1.5 million Monopoly boards are shipped throughout Europe every year. Since its arrival on the market in 1935, over 200 million Monopoly games have been sold across the world and it has been played by an estimated 500 million people.

egan007

Up The Ros!

Sabre0001

Don't vote it's a scam!!!!!!!!

egan007

Sabre0001 wrote:

Don't vote it's a scam!!!!!!!!

Would you like to elaborate?
How can they scam you for clicking a vote button?
Is this actually Fianna Fail's attempt to rig the election?
I's it McDaids Voting machines in the background?

pjdscott

Sabre0001 wrote:

Don't vote it's a scam!!!!!!!!

I don't believe it is a scam. If you Google "Hasbro Monopoly" you get the '.co.uk' site - they're running a similar competition for UK cities.

http://www.monopoly.co.uk/index.aspx

Of course you have to provide your e mail to vote, and this often opens the floodgates to spam, no matter what assurances companies give...

Peter

DarkJager

Well if you think about it, if its an "All Ireland" monopoly game, then all these counties will be included anyway. Seems like its just an excuse to get email addresses for marketing....

Vorsprung

egan007 wrote:

Would you like to elaborate?
How can they scam you for clicking a vote button?
Is this actually Fianna Fail's attempt to rig the election?
I's it McDaids Voting machines in the background?

He's not from around these parts

egan007

free email address?
Doesn't everyone have a spam email address at this stage.....

Innervision

DarkJager wrote:

Well if you think about it, if its an "All Ireland" monopoly game, then all these counties will be included anyway. Seems like its just an excuse to get email addresses for marketing....

It was in the paper yeserday, only 22 counties will be included since there's only that many spaces for them!

delta_bravo

egan007 wrote:

free email address?
Doesn't everyone have a spam email address at this stage.....

yeh i call it nochanceimnotgivingmyaddress@hotmail.com

Victor

bigjimthefirst wrote:

And not O'Connell St in Cork

Spot O'Connell Street. http://www.corkcity.ie/maps/maps/19.html

It's number 5

Feral Mutant

I think I just found a terrible flaw in the voting method, as well as a possible explanation of why, with such a big chunk of the populaton, Dublin is just barely on the board. You don't have to confirm your address so you can type in anything as long as it's something@somewhere.something. With this it's pretty easy to vote loads of times.

timmywex

i voted for wexford , no need to do it for dublin, come on the yellow bellies!!

ballroom blitz

Dublin barely has 1000 votes we're in 19th place :eek: Get voting quick or Dublin won't make the cut!!

Leeby

Why would we want to be included in the All Ireland edition?? We already have our own one, no voting was required!