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Best place to Live - Irish Times

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  • 11-06-2012 12:32pm
    #1
    Max Powers
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    Waterford short-listed, im not surprised, we have a lot to offer. Im sure our unemployment rate will go against us possibly being designated THE best place. Its not all doom and gloom.

    CONOR GOODMAN
    THE JUDGES of The Irish Times “Best Place to Live in Ireland” competition have released an initial longlist of 25 places which are in the running for the overall award. They include five villages, 10 towns of varying sizes, four regional cities, one rural district and five suburbs or urban villages.
    The villages are: Ardara, Co Donegal; Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary; Eyeries, Co Cork; Fourmilehouse, Co Roscommon, and Portballintrae, Co Antrim.
    The towns are: Skerries, Co Dublin; Clonakilty, Co Cork; Killarney, Co Kerry; Westport, Co Mayo; Greystones, Co Wicklow; Birr, Co Offaly; Carrick-on- Shannon, Co Leitrim; Abbeyleix, Co Laois, and Athlone, Co Westmeath and Sligo town.

    There are five Dublin suburbs: Rathmines, the Glenbeigh Road area in Cabra, Clondalkin, Sandymount and Ranelagh.
    The four cities are: Cork, Derry, Galway and Waterford.
    The Dingle peninsula also features on the list of the final 25.
    For the Best Place to Live in Ireland competition, The Irish Times invited people to nominate the place they lived and explain its appeal.


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    mike65
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    Jasus Limerick and Kilkenny will be feeling hard done by!

    No chance of winning this utterly trivial gong of course.


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    fricatus
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Jasus Limerick and Kilkenny will be feeling hard done by!

    No chance of winning this utterly trivial gong of course.

    Not against Ranelagh, Sandymount and Galway - the Holy Trinity of places as far as Dublin's chattering classes are concerned!

    Nice to be shortlisted though! Only place in the southeast too... I would really have expected Dungarvan, Tramore, Ardmore, Dunmore, Kilkenny, Thomastown, Rosslare or Wexford town to feature, but hey, who's complaining? :D


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    mike65
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    Well Lismore should be a shoe in. Really - verdant, beautifully situated, nice size, the "castle" and so on.


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    fricatus
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Well Lismore should be a shoe in. Really - verdant, beautifully situated, nice size, the "castle" and so on.

    God yeah... when you start to list off stuff and forget Lismore, you realise that we do have a lot of really nice places nearby! :D


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    decriain
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    Generally agree with this list - is broadly the same as the list at http://tinyurl.com/d8hsd2t

    I wish a lot of other places could learn from it - so many places are poorly maintained and shoddy.


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    comeraghs
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    Having their own problems above in Lismore!

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/54963897196/


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    spankmemunkey
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    Waterford best place to live in Ireland, yeah.


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    Marchandire
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    This is more meaningless than the Eurovision.


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    liammur
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    Been to waterford a few times and I must say I like the place. Limerick doesn't deserve to be in there, but we do have a nice village or 2.


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