Irish Minnows....................

I used to play with a couple of Rathfern Rangers guys on the astra turf at the Valley,and 5 a-side indoors there and at the Shankill.

I was pretty average,but good fun up to a few years ago.
Mum lives in Merville so I am there most days and it is a peaceful wee spot.
Used to ride bikes and party with guys in Monkstown in the 80's,when the Ivy and Jordy were the local bars.
Only drank in Cloughfern Arms once,playing pool upstairs.

Cool story bro.

Seriously Trigger, you must be on the wind-up because nobody can be as daft as you. And i quote again -

At the 2001 Census, Newtownabbey Urban Area had a population of 62,056, making it the FOURTH largest settlement in Northern Ireland.

Compared to this - On Census day on April 29, 2001 there were 13,456 people living in Strabane.

That was the 2001 census figures for Strabane and N/Abbey. 2001. Two Thousand And One. 2 0 0 1. Not 2011/12. God , your hard work

I played for Rathfern for 13 years bluebell

Cheers Mango.

How's the craic in downtown Strabane on a wet Tuesday?
We were having private conversation there,but culchies can lack manners at times,and make fools of themselves socially............

Alexia, now i will say it again, where are you getting those figures? the population right now is 20K, so Nabbey cant possible be six times bigger than Strabane unless its population in 100,000 which it most certainley is not.

If im a culchie then so is Alexia.

http://www.lgsc.org.uk/fs/doc/Newtownabbey%20S75%20Statistics.pdf

Population 83,400 and that was 2009 figures. Again the 1st set of statistics in 2001 , said that Newtownabbey was nearly 6 times the size of Strabane.

Your a culchie , fs even when i go to Antrim im called a townie haha

Mango

Newtownabbey is part of Greater Belfast and parts of N,Belfast take in N'Abbey electorally,so Alex is a cultured,cosmopolitan like what I am,so it is.

Only messin,as I grew up in Greenisland beside farms Mango.

Rathfern Rangers Alex,eh.

Underground,overground,wombling free mucker.......

Well ill be damned. I grew up giving stick to proper culchies from rural Tyrone, now im supposedly the culchie? I prefer the term townie. We have culchies, Townies and Cityslickers, hows that?