Presidential Race update, Place of Interest, Facts

Dublin Facts: Dublin city is twinned with 3 different cities across the globe.

• Barcelona in Spain
• Liverpool in the UK
• San Jose, California, USA

San Jose is in California in the United States of America and has a population of 952,612 in 2010 of which 716,086 are eligible to vote in county, state and national elections. San Jose is also known as the Capital of Silicon Valley.

San Jose Tower and Rotunda

St. Josephs Cathedral

Barcelona is the second city of Spain and the capital of the Catalonia area of the country. Barcelona  has a population of 1.6 million for the city area and 4.2 million for the full administrative area.

Sagrada Familia Cathedral

Port Vell and the Columbus Monument

Liverpool is a city in Lancashire on the western coast of England. Liverpool is 135 miles or 218km from Dublin. The city of Liverpool is the home of The Beatles and had a vibrant music scene through the years.

The Beatles Tour

Liverpool Cathedral

                                                          



                                                                                                                    
Dublin fact 2: Dublin has been named as the safest Capital city in Europe with only 7 road deaths so far this year down from 13 for the same period in 2010. Thankfully there have been no fatalities on our roads since June of this year.

Places of Interest:
Dublin Zoo in the Phoenix Park in the city is worth a visit and especially since the current president officially opened a new gorilla rainforest area there yesterday Sept 28th which is open to the public from today. Our president did not have far to travel as her home is also in the Phoenix Park which is one of the largest enclosed recreational areas in any european captial city

One of the troop to move to their new surroundings is a female baby gorrila who was born on Sept 16th in the Zoo. Dublin Zoo have yet to name the baby gorilla and have invited people to suggest a name based on her West Africian origin. Your suggestion should be posted to the Dublin Zoo facebook page www.facebook.com/dublinzoo

Presidential Update:
Seán Gallagher has suggested that rather than all 7 canidates sending information leafleats to every voter in the country that only one leaflet with information about all 7 should be sent which would save around 10 million euro for the Irish tax payer in postal charges.