Definitely
Not Dublin
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Local Time
We are inclined to forget, these days, that people used to tell the time by the sun. This meant actual local time. Dublin, for instance, would have been about 12 minutes ahead of Galway (3 degrees longitude difference).
It was only with the coming of the trains and electronic communications that there was a strict requirement for standard time. So, now we have the world divided up into time zones, where locations within a 15 degree slice keep the same hour.
Were it not for this, the proliferation of local times would make life unmanageable.
It was only with the passing of the Time Act in 1880 that Dublin time was extended to all of Ireland and it took another 36 years before London time (GMT) was extended to the whole of these islands in 1916.
The Regions
It probably happens in most countries. The capital is resented by the regions. Parisiens look down on the rest of France. Londoners think they are the bee's knees. And Jackeens think they are way up the evolutionary ladder compared with the poor Culchies.
They really do, and it works both ways. Culchies hate Dubliners, and not without cause. The capital has been the recipient of the regional brain drain and has gobbled up the lion's share of national infrastructure resources.
Up to recently, the national media were almost exclusively Dublin centered (pace the Cork Examiner). This is now changing, facilitated in part by modern technology.
Anyway, the timepiece caption above made me smile.