January 25, 2005
Just call it the Sudetenland and be done with it…
Limerick and Clare are at it again. According to the Limerick Post,
Cllr Crowe also recently recommended to Clare County Council that it set about reclaiming the Limerick county townlands of Coonagh and Lansdowne which the County Council lost in the 1950 boundary extension. In submitting this motion, Cllr Crowe said that if the Council adopted it, it would help in "putting a stop to Limerick’s colonial tendencies”.
Indeed. This probably had nothing to do with the fact that the mayor of Limerick had just rejected Crowe's suggestion that a new tunnel under the Shannon should be named after Eamonn De Valera, who coincidentally was both a Clareman* and the revered leader of Crowe's party, Fianna Fail. And it certainly had nothing to do with the Mayor's suggestion that Limerick should look for a boundary extension of it's own.
What ever they call the tunnel, let's hope that they show a bit more imagination than my alma mater, University of Limerick, when they named the Shannon bridge on the campus….University Bridge.
*A Limerickman has pointed out to me that Dev was actually a Limerick man. I always make this mistake. His grand-daughter Sile De Valera lives in Clare (and represents the county as a TD), while his grandson Eamonn O'Cuiv lives in Galway and represents all of the West as the Minister with responsibility for the Gaeltacht.
Posted by Monasette at January 25, 2005 11:20 PMLove your blog, (Dervala recommended it), particlarly the photos. I spent 6 delightful years in college, (and beyond) in Galway and your photos make me want to go back to the West. I even like your humorous digs at my home town of Limerick. A small quibble, Dev although born in NY was sent home to Bruree in Co. Limerick after his fathers death. So really, he was a Limerickman, not a Clairman.
I do enjoy the fact that Limerick has "Colonial Tendencies". No one likes us anyway so we should just impose our will :)
Posted by: John McDermott at January 26, 2005 10:30 PM