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Thread: Which county could best break-away from the Republic and become a succesful State?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ruserious View Post
    Supposing the people of one of the counties that currently make up the republic decidided to hypothetically leave the country, which one would be best suited for surviving as a succesful State?
    Areas such as Natural Resources,Agriculture,Population,location and industry have to be taken into account.

    I would argue Cork due to the large agricultural land in the county, big industries in Cork harbour, a decent population and for now at least, gas off the Southern coast.

    What do you all think? Any other counties in your view that could make it?
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    Maybe Fermanagh so we could have the joys of Fermanaghs version of the DART! It could be the FART
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    Dublin is the only one that has the infrastructure to do it.

    Cork needs only a few more facilities (e.g. A teacher training college, A legal training facility).

    After that it gets tricky. Waterford would probably be next closest, unless Limerick could annex enough of South Clare to get Shannon.

    After that it gets pretty hopeless.

    But which would prosper...

    I'm not sure any could. Even the best case of Dublin would be cut off from its hinterland. Cork doesn't suffer as badly on that one, but would get undone by the overheads needed to be supported by the small population (although it is bigger than Luxembourg or Iceland). Beyond that, the counties are just too small to be self-standing.
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