Talk:Laoighis-Offaly (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Mergefrom Laois-Offaly

See Talk:Laoighis-Offaly (Dáil Éireann constituency) --BrownHairedGirl 11:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I propose merging the article Laois-Offaly into this one. Both articles refer to the same constituency, which (despite spelling changes in its name) has covered the same territory consistently since the 1920s.

Given a choice of which title to use for the merged article, this one seems better beceause:

1. Laoighis-Offaly is the current official name of the constituency (see for example Oireachtas members database)
2. This article's includes the phrase "(Dáil Éireann constituency)", which I suggest that all such constituency articles should include, in order to remove the ambiguity created by the inconsistent naming patterns of Dáil constituencies in wikipedia.

--BrownHairedGirl 11:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

ooops! Just spotted that in the 30th Dáil Under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005 (No. 16/205) the official name of the constituency will become Laois-Offaly. Nonetless I suggest merging into this article before renaming to Laois-Offaly (Dáil Éireann constituency) --BrownHairedGirl 11:29, 6 May 2006 (UTC)