aginst i agree with the statements above espically by that of ryano while county dublin is no longer an adminstrative unit having been devolved into the new adminstative units that have county level status county dublin still refers to a geographical unit the tradational county dublin second dublin region is to ambiguous of a term that could just as easly but not wt the creent time refer to areas that outside of the area of county dublin but maintin strong tiesto the area developing into a metropolitian area tr cht ar