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Guardian having a go at Tallaght

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24-07-2010 2:02pm

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/23/the-fiver-fulham-sven-goran-eriksson

"We do not know Shamrock Rovers and therefore we have to study them through videos" - Juventus forward David Lanzafame looks forward to next week's Big Vase third round qualifier against Irish side Shamrock Rovers in Robbie Keane's hometown of Tallaght. If Juventus lose, they won't be the first Old Lady to have been mugged in the notoriously rough Dublin village.

Saw this the other day, I was a little offended.
Tallaght is only considered a village?

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#2 24-07-2010 2:04pm
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FortuneChip wrote: »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/23/the-fiver-fulham-sven-goran-eriksson

Saw this the other day, I was a little offended.
Tallaght is only considered a village?

lol

it could have said a lot worse which would have been true tbh

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#3 24-07-2010 2:05pm
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brilliant...in fairness he's not wrong. hope rovers do the buisness. i'll be getting my tickets on monday!

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#4 24-07-2010 2:05pm
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Yes when my office was in Tallaght Village that was the address and correct term.

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#5 24-07-2010 2:07pm
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Tallaght was always a village.

And a lot of well established businesses like pubs will have Tallaght Village in their address

Quick google search shows Foxes Covert

The origins of the pub go back to 1933 when Martin Molloy purchased The Foxes Covert Licensed and Grocery business in Tallaght village

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#6 24-07-2010 2:11pm
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I don't think anywhere in the UK with 100,000 people would be considered a village. On the rough point.... ah hem!!...... they could be right

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#7 24-07-2010 2:13pm
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the term village means former village. Islington has been called a village. Westminister. People call Raheny a village.

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#8 24-07-2010 2:13pm
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changes wrote: »

I don't think anywhere in the UK with 100,000 people would be considered a village.

Yet there is a place in Florida that I know of in detail called "Rockledge" that has a population of 20,000 and thats called a city!
Strange... :pac:

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#9 24-07-2010 2:14pm
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We're not rough, just don't approach us!

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#10 24-07-2010 2:14pm
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City is unrelated to size.

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#11 24-07-2010 2:15pm
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feelingstressed wrote: »

Tallaght was always a village.

And a lot of well established businesses like pubs will have Tallaght Village in their address

You mean like Molloys or Macari's or something, which happens to be in Tallaght Village?

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#12 24-07-2010 2:16pm
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To be fair. I wouldn't consider Tallaght a village. Just a cancerous limb that makes up one part of one big stinking ****hole. I've nothing against Tallaght on it's own. I just think Dublin ruins Ireland!

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#13 24-07-2010 2:23pm
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Tallaght is a village yep. Also, like nearly every other place, Tallaght has it's good and bad spots. It's not all bad!

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#14 24-07-2010 2:34pm
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Feckin' Tallaght scumbags.

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#15 24-07-2010 2:45pm
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A city is a legal/administrative entity not a size of place.

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#16 24-07-2010 2:52pm
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mike65 wrote: »

A city is a legal/administrative entity not a size of place.

I won't disagree with you in that respect - just as the example I gave though above, Rockledge is neither!
Its just something I have yet to get my head around in understanding sometimes.

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#17 24-07-2010 2:56pm
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Terry wrote: »

Feckin' Tallaght scumbags.

Lol ya fecker

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#18 24-07-2010 2:57pm
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I don't know about over there, but over here AFAIK the one thing that makes a place a city is that it has a cathedral.

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#19 24-07-2010 2:58pm
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Biggins wrote: »

I won't disagree with you in that respect - just as the example I gave though above, Rockledge is neither!
Its just something I have yet to get my head around in understanding sometimes.

http://www.drumcouracity.ie/
:pac:

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#20 24-07-2010 2:59pm
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Biggins wrote: »

I won't disagree with you in that respect - just as the example I gave though above, Rockledge is neither!
Its just something I have yet to get my head around in understanding sometimes.

to be a city you need,a catherdal,a lord mayor,and a city hall
i think there is 11 city's in the ireland
city's are unrealted to population size

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#21 24-07-2010 3:01pm
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we dont only mug old ladys in tallaght well mug anyone we do not discriminate

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#22 24-07-2010 3:14pm
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saywhatyousee wrote: »

to be a city you need,a catherdal,a lord mayor,and a city hall
i think there is 11 city's in the ireland
city's are unrealted to population size

The definition of a city also varies from country to country.

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#23 24-07-2010 3:15pm
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saywhatyousee wrote: »

to be a city you need,a catherdal,a lord mayor,and a city hall

Wrong wrong and wrong! You don't need a Lord Mayor, just any old Mayor. A Cathedral is not required for a city, Birmingham in England does not have one for example. A city hall will only be found in a city ipso-facto!

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#24 24-07-2010 3:17pm
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mike65 wrote: »

Wrong wrong and wrong! You don't need a Lord Mayor, just any old Mayor. A Cathedral is not required for a city, Birmingham in England does not have one for example. A city hall will only be found in a city ipso-facto!

Birmingham doesn't have one mike, it's got two :pac:

St Philips, the CofE one; and St Chad's, the RC one

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#25 24-07-2010 3:30pm
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Cheers, it didn't have one when it was made a city. (1889)

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#26 24-07-2010 3:31pm
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mike65 wrote: »

Wrong wrong and wrong! You don't need a Lord Mayor, just any old Mayor. A Cathedral is not required for a city, Birmingham in England does not have one for example. A city hall will only be found in a city ipso-facto!

Ok, now I'm just twice as confused!

Whip me ass and just call me dopey! :pac:

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#27 24-07-2010 3:36pm
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Oh and KILKENNY IS NOT A REAL CITY!

/runs and hides.

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#28 24-07-2010 3:37pm
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Tallaght is whopper.

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#29 24-07-2010 3:37pm
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Tallaght Village refers to the area of what used to be Tallaght Village, consisting of Main Street and a few other streets around there, not the whole of Tallaght.

I think with the high population living there its nearly city status.

mike65 wrote: »

Wrong wrong and wrong! You don't need a Lord Mayor, just any old Mayor. A Cathedral is not required for a city, Birmingham in England does not have one for example. A city hall will only be found in a city ipso-facto!

There is one in Birmingham, St Philips

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#30 24-07-2010 3:37pm
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mike65 wrote: »

Oh and KILKENNY IS NOT A REAL CITY!

/runs and hides.

It really isn't, it's completely farcical to be calling that place a city, it's a medium sized town at best.

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#31 24-07-2010 3:41pm
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Biggins wrote: »

Ok, now I'm just twice as confused!

Whip me ass and just call me dopey! :pac:

To complicate things further, Brighton and Hove, Sunderland and Wolverhampton have no cathedral but do have city status.

And Rochester used to be a city but now isn't.

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