Published: Wednesday, 30th September, 2009 4:50pm
New Trim street to be named after Swift
by Noelle Finegan
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Trim's newest street is to be named after Dean Jonathan Swift who had close connections with the town.
While a meeting to formally approve the name has not yet taken place, it is understood that both Trim area councillors and Trim town councillors have agreed that it should be named after Swift.
The new street links Watergate Street to the new Office of Public Works (OPW) headquarters and, because it falls both into the town council and county council area, the name must be agreed by both councils.
This is the second new street in recent times to be opened in the town. Finnegan's Way - which links Emmet Street with Castle Street - opened two years ago and was named after a local man, Jimmy Finnegan.
The issue of the naming of the new street was discussed at the last meeting of Trim area councillors and all councillors were agreed that the street should be named after Dean Swift, given his close connections with Trim and the growing popularity of the Swift Festival. Suggestions included Swift Street, Dean Swift Street, Jonathan Swift Street and Gullivar's Way.
While Gullivar's Way was supported at the area meeting, it was decided at the town council meeting that it would be best to name the street after the man himself, rather than one of the characters he created.
Cllr Jimmy Fegan said he had suggested Dean Swift Street at the area meeting but that not everybody liked it. He questioned with 'tongue-in-cheek' whether they could be blamed for somebody speeding if it was called Swift Street.
The final decision on which variation will be used will be made a meeting to be arranged between town councillors and area councillors.
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themanonthefence
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Oct 4 09 13:53
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Waht a wonderful Council we have !, in the name of God and of the dead generations of martyrs that died for a Republic ....here we have now Trim Town Council celebrating a Tory and Conservative politician of the British race .....when the brave boys of South Meath haven't a decent memorial to their heroic efforts in the War of Independance....Boylan, Higgans, Proctor and the Giles of Longwood never mind the Lalors of Castle St. and all their Brothers in arms are only remembered in the dyeing memories of the the natives, shame on ye,Trim town Council and Meath county council, shame on ye , we dont forget our people sleeping by the banks of the Boyne in Sept '20 while the tans burnt and pillaged our Town with a Tory head governing the destruction and legalising the marauding that happened, I put it to you Noel Dempsey ( Fianna Fail Top man in Meath ) justify naming any part of Ireland after a Tory...
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It is about time a decent memorial was commissioned to the the old IRA and placed prominently in Trim. Fianna Fail take the lead ....
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Lilliputs, giants and mental cases , a worldwide renown for tyeing wrong laces.... these are the things the wonderlust brings...head to me to where Town and County doth sing !!
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