Talk:Finglas

Deletions??

Why were the following mass-deletions made? [1] [2] Should these be re-instated? - Pete C ^✍ 21:50, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

They don't look very encyclopaedic to me, tbh... --Kiand 19:20, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

I dont agree with deleting geography section I think it is good. For the record look at a map and you'll see that Cabra and Ashtown are due south and Glasnevin is southeast, and in-between places like Ballygall and Glasnevin North (Finglas East) dont exist and I know this because I work in An Post. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dotsey (talk • contribs) 13:56, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Linkfarm/directory issues

A few weeks ago a number of unexplained reverts occurred. I raised with the relevant editor at the time. However, as I received no response I'm going to re-raise here before taking action. To my eye, these reversions introduced several dead and irrelevant links, and (re)introduced content which is not within the relevant guidelines. (Specifically the changes effectively created a business and clubs directory in the middle of the article.) As arbitrary directories (of services, sports clubs or whatever) are not recommended, and long lists of web links are outside the guidelines, I'm tempted to remove. Unless anyone has any other thoughts on this, I'm going to replace with prose (again). Guliolopez (talk) 12:07, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Support proposal. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:15, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

OK.  Done. Guliolopez (talk) 21:22, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

People list

Why was William Rowan Hamiltons name removed from this page? He lived in Dunsink and Dunsink is afterall a part of Finglas. — Preceding text originally posted on Finglas by 137.191.227.58 (talk⋅contribs)

It was removed on the basis that no cite or evidence was provided that WRH lived in Finglas. Certainly he lived at the Dunsink observatory for a time. However, Dunsink wouldn't have been considered part of Finglas at that time (being 2+ miles from Finglas village), and possibly arguably not strictly part of Finglas now. (Related article describes Dunsink as a townland near Finglas.) Guliolopez (talk) 12:43, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Twinning

The claim, that Finglas is twinned with Canton, Massachusetts was added (without explanation of reference or otherwise) by an anon in 2006. It has been tagged as uncited and problematic since 2018. In that time, I have gone looking for sources to support this statement. I can find none. The only thing I can find which is remotely in the same ballpark/wheelhouse is this 1991 report of a local Vocational Education Committee. This report (page 12) vaguely talks about a student exchange program called the "Finglas and Canton Exchange". In which there was apparently a student exchange program running for a few years. An agreement between schools or school boards doesn't sound like a "town twinning" arrangement to me. The website of the administration of the "Town of Canton" makes no mention of Finglas. And, when the Finglas Village Renewal Partnership reportedly proposed other town twinning arrangements a few years ago, none of the resulting news reports made any reference to any existing twinning agreements. Which, if there were any, I would imaging they probably would have. Anyway, unless this can be cited, I'm going to remove it. Guliolopez (talk) 10:10, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

I suggest just take it out - I also see no evidence on a quick check (all I've got time for today, having put in extra time yesterday), and at 14 years, this one has had enough time, and twinning is not important enough to go all-out to verify. SeoR (talk) 13:17, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll probably leave it a day or so. In case someone has access to stuff that I/we don't. And because leaving it another 14 hours or so (in the context of the past 14 years or more) is a drop in the ocean :) If/when I do remove it, I'll also remove it from the Canton, MA article. Where it was added by the same anon at effectively the same time. Also uncited and unexplained. Where it has also sat for the same period. (I would note that, of the two "partnerships" listed in the Canton, MA article, there does seem to be material support for the other one listed. I just can't anything at all, and certainly nowhere near the same level, for the claimed Finglas connection...) Anyway, I'll leave it a day or so. And remove this claim from both articles. Guliolopez (talk) 14:17, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Good call - I spoke to a couple of people over there, and indeed it was a thing, Finglas <-> Canton, Mass., for some years. But it ended years ago. Now that I know what to look for, I will try newspaper archives to try to substantiate it (briefly) as an historic point. SeoR (talk) 18:08, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

And OK, from the Journal, Finglas wants to build ties with North Korea 22-Aug-2016, "Finglas was previously twinned with a town in Massachusetts, adding that this pairing was “very tame by comparison” and the Dublin village got “very little” benefit from it." - Canton is not named, so not quite enough, but... As for North Korea, I imagine that this North Korean aspect never came to pass. SeoR (talk) 18:14, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Nary a reference with Canton named. So either out it comes, or we use a ref to "past twinning with a town in Massachusetts" - and it seems no current twinning, though a try was made in 2017 to secure a suburb of Liverpool. SeoR (talk) 20:05, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

The Finglas-Canton Massachusetts twinning was definitely a thing years ago. I remember the sign well from when I was a kid. As you entered Finglas, there it was, saying that it was twinned with Canton, Massachusetts. One of those things that always stuck in my head because I'd never seen or heard of anything like it before. 78.18.245.203 (talk) 22:01, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Is Finglas a tough/rough neighborhood??? Poor? Crime ridden?

With the news out today about a cocaine "super cartel" getting busted in Dubai, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, etc, there were mentions of the Kinahan crime family, the Hutch crime family, and numerous other Irish criminals (many of them dead), and it seems that a lot of them come from Finglas or operated there. Is Finglas a tough/rough neighborhood? Poor? Crime ridden? The article is silent on any aspect of this. Thanks in advance to anybody who knows, and can insert this aspect with links. Betathetapi454 (talk) 19:12, 29 November 2022 (UTC)