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    Quote Originally Posted by Darren Mac an Phríora View Post
    Well several councils have naming committees now. There number has been growing in the last few years. In time all councils with have them.
    Do they cover individual house names as well or is that under the remit of another committee? Can we expand it into children's names as well? This is great time management.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CookieMonster View Post
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    I foresee another Dingle situation, where residents will want to rename the location into an English one, they can spell, pronounce and understand.
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    Even during the height of the property boom the committee in Mulhuddart/Castleknock only met around three or four times a year. Local historians, if any, are welcome on them.

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    Its about 3 decades too late but it still is a good development for the promotion of the language and should be welcomed depsite the trite remarks from the usual suspects.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fir Bolg View Post
    Its about 3 decades too late but it still is a good development for the promotion of the language and should be welcomed depsite the trite remarks from the usual suspects.
    It's tokenism and ill placed tokenism at that.

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    Stuff the begrudgers Darren. This is excellent new. Of course the country is in a jock and there is a million and 1 more important things but does not mean we must stop trying to improve the smaller stuff.

    I know in Navan where this was passed 4 weeks ago that it was extremely popular among the public who were fed up of individual builders naming estates names like Hampton Rise and Windsor Downes.

    Dublin is an Irish city and this will help rebalance location names somewhat. Maith thú Sinn Féin An Mhí agus BAC!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darren Mac an Phríora View Post
    Dublin City Councillors have voted in the next Development Plan to name all new residential developments in Irish. The policy was voted in in Galway City in the early 90's and then followed some years ago in Shannon. The policy was voted in only a few weeks ago in Navan.

    Críona Ní Dhálaigh (SF) put down the motion and I heard there was a big clap when the motion was passed.

    Well done to all the councillors!!!
    Tha snag being that there wont be any new residential developments till they sell the existing ones.Maybe 2020
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    Quote Originally Posted by White Horse View Post
    This flies in the face of the cultural heritage of Dublin.

    Dublin was never an exclsively Gaelic language city. Indeed, some would argue that it was a predominately English city.
    So what were they speaking in Dublin (Eblana) when it appeared on a map of Ireland charted by Ptolemy in the 2nd century? Swahili?

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