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  • 07-05-2008 3:02am
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    nicolaonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭


    Just a quick question. I know it may seem stupid but...

    Is Ballyfermot on the Southside or the Northside?
    Like where exactly is it?


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    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,867 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Ballyfermot is Southside. It's bordered to the north by Chapelizod, to the south by Walkinstown, to the east by Inchicore, and to the west by Palmerstown and Clondalkin.

    Wikipedia is your friend.


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    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    nicolaonfire wrote: »
    Is Ballyfermot on the Southside or the Northside?
    Like where exactly is it?
    Westside! ;)


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    nicolaonfire wrote: »
    Just a quick question. I know it may seem stupid but...

    Is Ballyfermot on the Southside or the Northside?
    Like where exactly is it?

    Southside.


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    gollyitsolly
    Registered Users Posts: 674 ✭✭✭gollyitsolly


    Anywhere other side of the Liffey is Southside.


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    Rob_l
    Registered Users Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Westside! ;)


    its westside for sure the wild wild west


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    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    I am also of the opinion that Dublin is better described as Northside,Southside & Westside


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    Rb
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    It's not *actually* on the Southside. The maps were just drawn such that it is shown to be to try and make the Northside and Southside seem "balanced".


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    jimmay
    Registered Users Posts: 534 ✭✭✭jimmay


    Ballyfermot ===> Dublin 10.

    All even numbers e.g Dub 2,4,6 are southside
    All odd no's are northside...D5,D7,D13

    Dunno wat that supposed to say about us northsiders :D


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    rb_ie wrote: »
    It's not *actually* on the Southside. The maps were just drawn such that it is shown to be to try and make the Northside and Southside seem "balanced".
    Banned.


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    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    jimmay wrote: »
    All even numbers e.g Dub 2,4,6 are southside
    All odd no's are northside...D5,D7,D13

    Dunno wat that supposed to say about us northsiders :D

    Not 100% true....


    Áras an Uachtaráin,
    Phoenix Park,
    Dublin 8


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    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    seamus wrote: »
    Banned.
    No no, you're banned.


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    jimmay
    Registered Users Posts: 534 ✭✭✭jimmay


    huh well I never! Thanks for pointin that out if thats true...yes I suppose the President couldn't be odd could they!?


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    BJC
    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭BJC


    seamus wrote: »
    Banned.

    Why??


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    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    jimmay wrote: »
    huh well I never! Thanks for pointin that out if thats true...yes I suppose the President couldn't be odd could they!?

    It is true....see Here


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    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    BJC wrote: »
    Why??
    Manopause.


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    jimmay
    Registered Users Posts: 534 ✭✭✭jimmay


    Dub13 wrote: »
    It is true....see Here

    You were right I was wrong lol haha that is strange, I never knew that...I wonder why that is...:confused:


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    Rob_l
    Registered Users Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    jimmay wrote: »
    Ballyfermot ===> Dublin 10.

    All even numbers e.g Dub 2,4,6 are southside
    All odd no's are northside...D5,D7,D13

    Dunno wat that supposed to say about us northsiders :D
    what about dublin 8
    and the president gaff?

    edit: should have read the rest of the thread someone already pointed out this :(


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,202 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    jimmay wrote: »
    You were right I was wrong lol haha that is strange, I never knew that...I wonder why that is...:confused:
    The nearest Postal Sorting Office to the Vice Regal lodge was James' St (rather than Phibsborough) so the park and the lodge within it became part of Dublin 8.


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    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,529 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    And all of chapelizod is dublin 10 when most of it is north of liffey.


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    BendiBus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭BendiBus


    humberklog wrote: »
    And all of chapelizod is dublin 10 when most of it is north of liffey.

    Excuse me, it's Dublin 20!


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    nicolaonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭nicolaonfire


    Thanks guys
    My friend was telling me it was on the Northside and I was trying to tell him that it defo wasn't and the only way of solving it was asking you guys.

    Plus I assumed in the first place that it was south because of it being Dublin 10 and that whole even numbers in the south and odd numbers in the north thing! Weird about the presidents gaff though!


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,202 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Chapelizod being in Dublin 20 is probably a knock-on from the park being Dublin 8. It would have been silly to have Phibsborough serving a narrow strip that you had to drive through an area served by another office to get to.


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    How Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭How Strange


    Southside except when something bad happens there and is being reported by RTE and all of a sudden it becomes 'Ballyfermot in Dublin's Northside'.
    Seriously, they reported this when the french tourist was killed in a hit and run on the kylemore rd a couple of years ago.


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    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    nicolaonfire wrote: »
    Thanks guys
    My friend was telling me it was on the Northside and I was trying to tell him that it defo wasn't and the only way of solving it was asking you guys.

    Would it not just have been easier to look at a map and see which side of the Liffey it was on ?
    Tut, kids these days, they expect everything done for them or don't know how to do things for themselves anymore, back in my day.......


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    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,529 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    BendiBus wrote: »
    Excuse me, it's Dublin 20!
    It is indeed. It was a typ-o. Excuse me(ahem). I do me shopping there and have a ham and cheese toastie in the villager.


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    #27
    dubtom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    I live there and technically it is southside but more and more it's become known as west Dublin as has blanch, tallagh, clondalkin etc. I've no doubt as it grows bigger the government will create a new voting district, west Dublin, as opposed to nw and sw Dublin to facilitate a few more cushy jobs for councillors and td's. Or have they done that already?


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