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1. Greystones Snob
A Greystones snob, guilty of snobbery, is a person who adopts the worldview that some people are inherently inferior to him/her for any one of a variety of reasons including real or supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, etc from Greystones, Co.Wicklow, Ireland.
Often don't actually reside in Greystones but in a posh environ like Delgany.Known for complaining about nearly everything and trying to be the ultimate Town Person/Local Politician yet still sourcing there interests (i.e Their children, Interests) elsewhere (mostly D4 area).

i.e Taking interest in the upkeep of the Local school yet still sending their children to affluent school in south Dublin.<see Blackrock,Institute>

Show similar traits with the wannabe D4 and Charleslandian.
Not to be confused with a True Greystoner.
..................(Local Council Meeting)................

Anne Crawley: ...................... And that is why my fellow Greystones Snobs , I think ,we should build a Brown Thomas in the area where the Pork is!

Politician A : Well Mrs Cawley, it would seem the residents in the Park might object to that.

Anne Crawley: Let the illiterate eat cake! Were in serious need of a BT pronto! Even with my Land Rover, Grafton street is a distance.

Politcian B: Well maybe we could put one really close to you.We could build it in Delgany?

Anne Crawley: And ruin my lovely 50 Hector garden which acts as a barrier from the commoners in Greystones? Not a fucking chance ! We will it have your way then gentlemen, We will just build one in Hillside instead.
2. DCU
Dublin City University
(AKA Albert College)

DCU, Ireland's youngest university is ranked as the second best university in Ireland by the Sunday Times after Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.
The university was also named "Irish University of the Year 2004-2005".

There are currently five faculties in DCU:

DCU Business School (DCUBS)
Faculty of Engineering & Computing
Faculty of Science & Health
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Joint Faculty of Education Studies

Earning €33m a year in research revenue, Dublin City University is at the cutting edge of Ireland's economic revival.

Dublin City University's 309 academics attract on average €106,762 each in research funding.This is by far the highest ratio in the country and more than twice as much as University College Dublin, which is three times larger.


Currently four other colleges have their degrees accredited by DCU, these are:

All Hallows College
Mater Dei Institute of Education
St Patrick's College of Education
Royal Irish Academy of Music
(Some of these are also owned by DCU)
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3. Longwood University
Since everyone who has written a definintion thus far has decided to dedicate that definition to bashing Longwood or surrounding colleges, here are some actual FACTS (all obtained from the Longwood University website):

QUICK INFO

A public, coeducational University with over 100 majors, minors, and concentrations in the arts and sciences, business, and education. Graduate programs in business, education, English, sociology, and environmental studies.

Students

Longwood's 4,500 students (3,800 undergraduates) come from over 25 states and foreign countries.

35% male

11% minority

990 freshmen

Campus

Residential 60-acre campus. Approximately 70 percent of undergraduates live in university-sponsored housing. Mix of red-brick colonial revival in the style of Thomas Jefferson and contemporary architecture.

Class Size

The average class has 26 students. One-quarter of all classes have 10 or fewer students.

Students/faculty ratio: 19:1.

Full-time faculty with terminal degrees: 80%.

Retention Rate: approximately 80% of freshmen continue to sophomore year.

Graduation Rate: 60% (within 5 years).

Computer Resources

Fully networked campus. Full access to the Internet from all campus buildings and each residence hall room.

Other Facilities and Resources

Health and physical education complex with pool, dance studio, human performance lab and a 3,000-seat gymnasium; eight tennis courts; and a nine-hole golf course.

A Health and F...
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4. letterkenny
Letterkenny (from the Irish: Leitir Ceanainn), with a population of 17,568, is the largest town in County Donegal.

The Main Street, originally the retail centre of the town, has become a centre for popular night clubs and pubs, voodoo in particular has attracted figures such as Sander Van Doorn, Markus Schulz, Paul Van Dyk, Eddie Halliwell and Marco V in recent years. The locals have there own slang which is commonly used.

Letterkenny is one of the worst towns in Ireland for public order offences. There were a total of 777 public order offences recorded in the town in 2003 with 1505 recorded in 2008. These statistics place Letterkenny as the sixth worst town in Ireland for public order offences, worse than the notoriously dangerous Dublin suburbs of Coolock and Clondalkin.
The Main Street has seen numerous assaults, stabbings, sexual assaults, drug raids and attacks on Gardaí in the past. Drug crime has become a problem in recent years, notably in the now demolished mart building.

The three main shopping malls are the Courtyard Shopping Centre, the Forte Shopping Centre and the Letterkenny Shopping Centre, the latter being the oldest. The Main Street is home to many older establishments including R. McCullagh Jewellers, dating from 1869, and Speers Department Store.

The Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT; known locally as the Regional) is one of the largest institutes of third level education anywhere in Ulster.
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