Staff meeting at the Palace

[Shamrock Shore]

Surely retiring from doing nothing means you begin to do something 

[StGallsGAA]

Any odds on him croaking with a month?

[BennyCake]

No one from Laois actually cares that our majestic county was once called that.

If yis dont care then why bother changing it?

Maybe they haven't...

Despite the county's name being upheld as Laois through the 2001 Local Government Act, no legislation was ever enacted after independence explicitly changing the name from Queen's County, the name formally established under the 1898 Local Government Act which continued to have legal effect. When land is sold in the county the relevant title deeds are still updated as being in Queen's County.

[laoislad]

The obsession increases to an all time high...!

[ziggysego]

Doesn't matter, laoislad is a Dub now anyway.

[laoislad]

Doesn't matter, laoislad is a Dub now anyway.

+1

[Syferus]

Always thought the Duke was great craic. He didn't take the shite too seriously, unlike his missus.

I think he asked Lizzy at her coronation "where did you get that hat?"

[seafoid]

Doesn't matter, laoislad is a Dub now anyway.

I thought he was a Scouser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yt8tygDXzc

[laoislad]

Whether it was or wasn't or still is in some form or other it makes no difference. It's only a name. 

The only one who obsess over it is Nordies.
Which is ironic considering they actually have a Queen.
The funny part is they thinking one should be insulted by it.
I look forward to the Offaly boys getting the same treatment when your Queen dies and you have a King instead!

[omaghjoe]

No one from Laois actually cares that our majestic county was once called that.

If yis dont care then why bother changing it?

Maybe they haven't...

Despite the county's name being upheld as Laois through the 2001 Local Government Act, no legislation was ever enacted after independence explicitly changing the name from Queen's County, the name formally established under the 1898 Local Government Act which continued to have legal effect. When land is sold in the county the relevant title deeds are still updated as being in Queen's County.

LOL looks like they really dont care..... apart from laoislad

[Itchy]

That Queens as daft as a brush, she had 32 counties to pick from and chose Laois!

[laoislad]

Truth be told if history was different I could actually have been from Kilkenny as up until the 1840's the town I grew up in was actually part of Co.Kilkenny.
I could have been kilkennylad instead of laoislad had it stayed as it was.!
Who would the Armagh lads have had to wind them up then?

After the Reformation, the manor passed into the ownership of the Earl of Ormond. In 1600, when Upper Ossory was made part of Queen's County (now Laois), Ormond ensured that Durrow remained an enclave of County Kilkenny where he was based.[2] [3] Ormond released the manor on 19 February 1708 to "William Flower and his heirs, forever". It was under the patronage of Flower and his descendants, the Lords Ashbrook, that the present town developed and prospered. In 1841–42 it was transferred from Kilkenny to Queen's County.[4]

[stew]

Truth be told if history was different I could actually have been from Kilkenny as up until the 1840's the town I grew up in was actually part of Co.Kilkenny.
I could have been kilkennylad instead of laoislad had it stayed as it was.!
Who would the Armagh lads have had to wind them up then?

After the Reformation, the manor passed into the ownership of the Earl of Ormond. In 1600, when Upper Ossory was made part of Queen's County (now Laois), Ormond ensured that Durrow remained an enclave of County Kilkenny where he was based.[2] [3] Ormond released the manor on 19 February 1708 to "William Flower and his heirs, forever". It was under the patronage of Flower and his descendants, the Lords Ashbrook, that the present town developed and prospered. In 1841–42 it was transferred from Kilkenny to Queen's County.[4]

Hate to break this to ya kid but you wind none of us up, you get wound by the Armagh men. )

[Shamrock Shore]

You think you made a lucky escape Laoislad!

Until 15somethingorother Longford was part of Connacht!

[seafoid]

Truth be told if history was different I could actually have been from Kilkenny as up until the 1840's the town I grew up in was actually part of Co.Kilkenny.
I could have been kilkennylad instead of laoislad had it stayed as it was.!
Who would the Armagh lads have had to wind them up then?

After the Reformation, the manor passed into the ownership of the Earl of Ormond. In 1600, when Upper Ossory was made part of Queen's County (now Laois), Ormond ensured that Durrow remained an enclave of County Kilkenny where he was based.[2] [3] Ormond released the manor on 19 February 1708 to "William Flower and his heirs, forever". It was under the patronage of Flower and his descendants, the Lords Ashbrook, that the present town developed and prospered. In 1841–42 it was transferred from Kilkenny to Queen's County.[4]

You would be so sick of all Irelands by now if you were from Kilkenny