Malahide, Fingal

Originally this post was just going to be about my new camera, a Sony DSC-W80, and a test to ensure I can link this in with my Picassa albums, but now it has turned into a little entry about where I come from, so anyone who meets me along the way can get a little background information.

Well actually I'm not going to write everything, I'm just going to link to the wikipedia page and let people do their own browsing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malahide

To be honest its not the best page in the world, but it will give people some idea. A few other photos can be found in the little test album I created. I wasn't trying to take great photos of Malahide, also it was a very overcast day so it didn't look its best, but I was testing some of the features of the camera (zoom and image stabilisation in particular). Rather than embedding phots in this page, and making it too big to open for people with slow internet connections, I'll just put the link in and allow people to connect at their leisure.

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/GavCost

But of course there has to be some complaint, and in this case it is about my address. Now I do think of myself as a Dub, especially during the summer, but rarely in September :-(, but for the last 13 years I have actually lived in Fingal. The problem is that to this day An Post still refers to postal addresses in this county as County Dublin. I have always wanted the addresses to be referred to as Co Fingal. What I cannot understand is that Fingal County Council do not seem to mind this. All their addresses are Swords, County Dublin. Why?

This rant was raised by the fact that when I went to Picassa to enter in a couple of my Malahide test photos they asked did I want to put them on the map. When I entered Malahide as the location it prompted me with the two choices, Malahide, Fingal, Ireland and Malahide, Ontario (which I must visit one day). This is why I am glad I am blogging, emailing and photoing with Google, they know the correct address for Malahide. Now all we have to do is get the Irish Government, An Post, and local government to follow.

(One thing though, they don't have Malahide or Fingal in their spelling dictionary, but then neither do Microsoft).

By the way in case anyone is wondering am I looking for the Dubs to be split, I'm not really, the GAA already have many teams that span multiple local authority areas (Tipp, Cork, Limerick etc - never mind the mess that the north became) and there is nothing wrong with them keeping the old 32 counties if they want. Although to be fair in reality with the size of the population Dublin should be winning everything, and therefore we should have been split up, but for now I can only hope that one day we will reach that point.