Vote For Your County!

Think I have heard it all now. I once had someone tell me that Drumsna was the centre of the world but that an institution like monopoly would cheapen itself in this manner is beyond belief.

There would have been no harm doing localised games for Cork, Limerick or Galway but this; Donegal with Daniel’s Bungalow oh forgot he sold it or Kerry with Moriarty’s Sneem hotel oh forgot it sank.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

:p Conference Centre Cork, 6-100 million!
😉 O’Gara’s Public Park in Dublin, 10,000 euro!
😮 Chance: Loose 40% of Apartment income due to vacancies if you haven’t a cosy deal with the LA !
😀 Community Chest: Don’t ask for planning unless you roll your trousers up and have the “handshake”!
😮 Never pass go and collect unless you are one of the chosen few!
:rolleyes: Never ever go to jail if you know the man in the Dail!
😮 😮 Galway Waterworks, PRICELESS!!!

@Sulmac wrote:

Monopoly are producing an All-Ireland ‘Here and Now Edition’, and people get to vote for their county to get a mention in the game.

However, there are 32 counties, but only 22 spaces on the board, so a public vote [via the web] is being used.

Since 2001, there are 29 counties in the Republic of Ireland.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/gen962001a.html

As Ireland is becoming more rural, it makes sense to have monopoly based on counties rather than city streets.

It’s a little worrying that Monopoly Ireland don’t seem to be able to spell Phoenix Park properly!

Fond of abbreviations, too. Michael Collins was killed at B na Bl, apparently.

@Frank Taylor wrote:

As Ireland is becoming more rural, it makes sense to have monopoly based on counties rather than city streets.

Or maybe it should be based on a mix of ‘traditional’ suburban street names (Downs, Rise, Close, Gardens, &c.) and popular names for single rural dwellings (The Paddocks, Hillview, &c.)? 😉

That Statute Book list is odd- I know it’s only Admin areas, but Kilkenny isn’t on the city list, to cite just one peculiarity.

Also, not being able to spell Phoenix could be considered a very Irish trait. 🙂

There was much discussion about Kilkenny at the time as it has a City Charter dating back to Medieval times but came nowhere near the EU population thresholds. Fantastic place but would you really consider it a nineteenth century city even?

Not only does it have a charter, it has a cathedral. It’s a city in my book.

EU population thresholds? How spectacularly unpoetic of the United States of Europe.

So does Cobh

Although the absence of City status possibly led to an attempted destruction

Voted for Galway, by far the best county. I hope nodoby has voted for the pale!

@Morlan wrote:

Voted for Galway, by far the best county. I hope nodoby has voted for the pale!

Born Galway found Dublin has all the best jobs, would live in Cork or Galway if they’d pay me enough.

I think people vote with their feet or whopping mortgages in reality. Can’t see anyone voting for the GDA commuter belt if given a choice.

Surprised Dublin is number 14 in the ranking now, seeing as nearly half the population live or work there.

I’m born and bred Dublin, I love the place, but the people from the other counties percieve Dublin as a walled city, an extention of Britain, and I don’t disagree with them. I think Dubliners need to look outwards a bit more.

I chose Gawlay because they seem to respect their culture in a big way. It seems that a lot of Dubliners are embarresed about Irish culture.

@Morlan wrote:

It seems that a lot of Dubliners are embarresed about Irish culture.

This kind of statement makes me feel sadder than it possibly should, because I really think this Dublin ogre that we create in our minds needs to be just left behind. Why we need this illusion, I don’t know. I assign it to us never really accepting that we’d parted from London or, alternatively, feeling that to be Irish is to be second rate so we’re better off not even trying and retreating into the countryside.

I’ve been trying to think of an answer that wouldn’t take us into one of those internet flame wars where, after 500 posts, each contributor finds a parallel between the position of the other side and Nazi Germany.

I’m not sure what you define as culture, or what you define as pride. But the 2002 Census results recorded that more than twice as many people in Dublin recorded themselves as being Irish speakers as in the whole of the Western region.

I’m not saying that ticking a box on a Census form makes someone a fluent speaker, because we know its not like that. I am pointing out that I’m not aware of Dublin people getting any special treatment for deeming themselves to be Irish speakers. I’m also suggesting that it shows some identity to the Irish language, which I’m assuming to be an indicator of what I’m guessing you have in mind when you say culture.