Talk:Mullingar
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I think it's a disservice to try and say Mullingar is the largest town in Westmeath. What the person who peruses this information is mal-informed about is that there is a far larger town in the midlands, and therefore no good information is imparted.
Perhaps the author is unaware that Athlone was once a walled town, and therefore the electoral boundaries reflect it to this day. That's why along with most walled towns in this country there is an area known as "Irishtown", where the locals had to live. Irishtown's population is counted as rural.
Athlone is in two juristictions, Westmeath and Roscommon and for statiscal purposes are treated seperately.
I invite the author to a guided tour of Monksland, Athlone. It's now the most populous area of Co. Roscommon! Check your same census bud!
Of course that is not included in the Athlone census figures, and as I reiterate, no good service is done by being blind to these facts.
I have no bad wish against big-sis who resides in Mullingar, or any of the other 18k residents there, I just want to address bad information. Slán.
I agree. Athlone is counted in two different censuses. Metro-Athlone is far bigger than Mullingar.
Agreed also, where is the €300m town centre being built? (Hint: Not Mullingar, not Tullamore)
[edit] Cleanup/Class B?
The "Class B" quality status applied to this article is out of date. It suffers from: Recent creeping POV, spelling issues, badly formatted "copy and paste" jobs from other websites (like the "legend" section), the NN "notables" section, the lack of sources and notability assertions for the "band" and "snooker club" paragraphs (which read like personal webspaces or club notice boards), uncited commentary about "the great need for retailers", and other issues. I will be looking to address some of these issues over the coming weeks. Suggestions on how best to structure this improvement are welcomed. Guliolopez 23:18, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
- First things first then: I've reclassified it as per your observations. (Sarah777 21:52, 23 August 2007 (UTC))
[edit] Motto and crest?
The town motto is currently listed as: "Rinné Colman gairé beag searbh". Are there any supporting sources available for this as an official motto? I fully acknowledge that this isn't exhaustative of all sources, but a Google search for this text returns only this Wikipedia article and mirrors/derivatives. Personally I'm unsure about it, as the fada placement is very odd ("Gairé"? "Rinné"? What words/language is this?). And if we assume that this is Irish, Old-Irish, or some variant, then what does it mean? "Colman made a small bitter laugh"? Pardon?
And, while I've got my skeptical hat on, are there any supporting references for this as the Mullingar crest? Maybe it's a relatively new construct from the Chamber of Commerce, but it seems quite convoluted, and uses what can only be described as "non-standard" heraldic symbols. Am I just missing something, or is there relevant symbolism to the duck up the chimney, the waffle iron, the golf flag, or Godzilla in the castle? And yet again we have some cryptic text: "Siggilum commune de Mollinger"? Is this pidgin French? Or Old-English? Is it supposed to read: "The seal of the commune of Mollinger?" "Mollinger"?
I'm half-joking/half-serious here, but are there any sources to confirm the use of this crest and motto at a town, chamber or corporation level? (I'd love for someone to trounce my flippancy and confirm my ignorance with confirmation that both the motto and crest have been in use for 100s of years) Guliolopez (talk) 20:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- It's been three months now, and no supporting sources for the use of the "Rinné Colman gairé beag searbh" crest/motto are forthcoming. I'm going to remove it as uncited, unreferenced, and unsourced. Cheers Guliolopez (talk) 12:12, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
