Talk:Public service of the Republic of Ireland

Merge Proposal
I propose that this article be merged with "Civil service of Ireland". I appreciate that a distinction between "civil service" and "public service" should be made. This, I suggest, could be done clearly in the civil service article. To me it seems pointless to have two separate articles and it makes it less likely that a reader will get the full picture of the civil and public services. Aditionally, the article is really poor. It would be better to improve, I think, the civil service article.

Any support or objections? Redking7 (talk) 16:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Object -- whilst its often easy to blur the two their is a clear distinction between the "civil service" and "public service", for instance but not limited to: terms and conditions of employment, diversity and type of work undertaken, grade and renumeration of staff, types of organisation worked in, political independence, foundation and history. Djegan (talk) 18:34, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Change name of Article
Given the opposition to the merger I expect it will not go ahead unless any one else has any supporting views. Instead, it will linger on, no one it seems interested enough to improve it.

Given this, I have made another proposal:

I have proposed that this article be moved to "public service of Ireland". This accords with the name of the state which is "Ireland" not "Republic of Ireland" - (See Names of the Irish state). There is, in my view, no room for confusion with the island of Ireland in this case because islands do not have public services. The move is currently being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Irish Wikipedians' notice board. Please support this move. Redking7 (talk) 22:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:32, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Public service of the Republic of Ireland → Public service of Ireland — In accordance with "use common name" and "no unnecessary disambig" policies, "Republic of" should be dropped from the article name. Please not stale merge proposal above - also, the discussion has been lost in the archives (which is why you have them on the local talk page and not the Wikiproject page.) D O N D E groovily  Talk to me  07:19, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose This article does not cover public services in Northern Ireland, which is part of Ireland but not the Irish state. See State-sponsored bodies of the Republic of Ireland. The Celestial City (talk) 12:18, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment It seems to me, that when it comes to world governments, people normally say "Ireland" to say Republic of Ireland and say "Northern Ireland" to refer to that. The world could avoid a lot of confusions by just saying South Ireland and North Ireland (say would be true of Congo). D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  17:19, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * While in many cases I would agree you, public services are very much an administrative matter and does differ on each side of the Irish border. Unfortunately, the terminology is much too politicised to apply common sense. The Celestial City (talk) 23:45, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem is that without "Republic of", it's not clear whether the title is referring to the republic or to the island as a whole. Powers T 13:41, 7 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose Articles relating to the state or island should use the same nomenclature as the main articles. We've had enough problems with the names for Ireland articles, let's not have this argument on umpteen individual pages as well. Timrollpickering (talk) 14:22, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.