Congratulazioni a Fingal per essere stata finalmente riconosciuta come la 33a contea d’Irlanda!
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di cathal41
Congratulazioni a Fingal per essere stata finalmente riconosciuta come la 33a contea d’Irlanda!
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di cathal41
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It was a historical county.
My friend always mixes up Fingal and Finglas.
She’s accidentally told people that her grandmother lives in Co. Finglas. lol
[It’s an administrative county](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingal_County_Council).
If they’re not a county, then why is there a Fingal County Council???
Open your eyes sheeple!!!
The government is lying to you all about how small Ireland is. How many other counties are they keeping for themselves???
Dublin is made of four local authority counties, has been for the past 30 years.
I’m not sure it’s a good idea to set the precedent that BBC reports get to decide what’s a county.
Fingal is a county. However, it should not be referred to as “County Fingal”.
Along with the other modern administrative countries in Dublin (South Dublin and DLR), the word county should come afterwards.
Fingal would be the 5th biggest county by population
Te fact that we don’t have a permanent ice rink is ridiculous
It’s never been explained to Irish people properly but Fingal (and South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown) is more of a county than County Dublin, which is a historical/traditional/GAA county that hasn’t existed in any political sense for over 30 years. Fingal has a legally defined borders, a council, councillors, a mayor and is a county in every practical sense.
‘County Dublin’ has no council, its traditional borders with Dublin City vary depending on the time and context (Howth was once in the city from 1952 to 1985), the Lord Mayor of Dublin is for the city only so there’s no County Dublin mayor – it’s at best a region but in a practical sense, it’s not a functioning, unified local government entity in Ireland, aka a county.
The only county things Fingal (and SDCC and DLRCC) doesn’t have are a separate GAA team and its own county letters on numberplates – ironically two things many Irish people regard as the only things that define a county.
Hence why if I said “Dublin hasn’t been a county since 1994”, people immediately argue it is! The republic has something like 31 local authorities, county-level local government. The North has 11, – at one stage, ironically, there were 26 there.
But if you insist on Ireland’s counties and their boundaries being immovable things that are frozen in time forever, then you probably think Fingal isn’t even a county, never mind the 42nd county.
Britain has ceremonial and administrative counties. Dublin would be the ceremonial county in that context. So the story isn’t wrong, Fingal County Council existing means they can be described as a county.
Meanwhile in other countries, there’s no such thing as ice skating season in the first place, you can do it year round. And that’s not just in cold countries either.
Wait until you find out there are two Tipperarys
Who is the Count if its a county?
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surely it would be 27th
I pledge allegiance to the great state of Fingal.
I remember when County Dublin was being split up into three counties, people were joking, “We’ll have a 32-county republic yet, just keep splitting them.”
We have our own language too but nobody can speak it.
We’ve been seeking independence for years now… it was this peaceful separation or else war! Be grateful we didn’t come looking for some more of the Northern suburbs of the city 🤣
