Inter-County Bitterness and Boundary Disputes

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Clare say no to Limerick City boundary extension. but the Clare people take all the Limerick City Jobs .as a Limerick Man I think Limerick City should Blow up all the bridges of Limerick City and keep Clare out .

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Clare say no to Limerick City boundary extension. but the Clare people take all the Limerick City Jobs .as a Limerick Man I think Limerick City should Blow up all the bridges of Limerick City and keep Clare out .

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A lot of issues are that towns and cities are often built on rivers that form county borders. Athlone, Carrick on Shannon, Carrick on Suir, Dublin, Limerick, and Waterford are some examples of cities or towns that span at least 2 sometimes more counties.

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osarusan wrote: »

It was also to do with business rates and which council would get them - with the county council facilitating the development of shopping centres just on the county side of the county/city border.

Moronic councillors like Gerry McLoughlin stoked the flames with stuff like this: "These country bumpkins have no regard for Limerick. They have destroyed the city with the planning, and are no friends of ours. We are not here to serve Newcastle West, or other places in the arsehole of county Limerick. I am a city man - I don't go down there, and have no time for them."

This is it in a nutshell. I am surprised no-one else has developed the point. To rub it in, there is also the necessity for those outlying suburbs / commercial enterprises to then tap into the City services. In Waterford the argument for an extension of the boundary ended when Kilkenny County Council granted permission for a 30,000 Sq M shopping centre that is literally the width of a side road from the Waterford Boundary. This was completely contrary to the national Spatial Strategy and would have totally killed Waterford City centre(and New Ross) only it turned into a total white elephant.

I don't know how to post pictures but have a look at the boundary on google. There is a prime site behind Waterford Train Station where the old ArdRí Hotel was. The county boundary actually goes through the middle of the hotel (the middle of the Hotel, not just the site!) so planning applications have to be made, and agreed, with the two councils. Have we that many resources in this country that we can afford that kind of stupid duplication.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Plunkett+Station/@52.2580539,-7.1031572,1205a,35y,304h,44.58t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xf14778ed35c373d1!8m2!3d52.2663626!4d-7.1179446

As things stand, half of Ferrybank is in Kilkenny but the address is always Ferrybank, Waterford. These people love to fly their black and amber and good luck to them with that but how would changing the administrative border for Ferrybank suddenly make these people Waterfordians? The county area remains the exact same and the GAA has already said it will not recognise City administration extensions. And finally, who was the last player from Ferrybank to play for Kilkenny? Ned Buggy in the 50's was from Slieverue but that's about as close as I can get. Get over it lads.

Edit. If you scroll to the right and down on the Google link you can see the empty shopping centre I mentioned just beside the Ferrybank Sports Grounds.

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__Alex__ wrote: »

I'm from Mayo...

You poor thing.