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The '''Dublin Metropolitan Area''' is description of an area around ], ] and its surrounding ] that has been applied by various bodies at various times; the boundaries of the area varies between the defining bodies. The term has no official status in ].

==Garda usage==
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The Dublin Metropolitan Region was formerly the jurisdiction of the Irish police force, An ] within the eastern part of ]. This jurisdiction covered parts of the old ] (except the northern part around ]) as well as the ] town of ] and the ] towns of ], ] and ]. Swords was covered by the Meath Garda Division. In this way, it differed from the usual definition of County Dublin and did not even conform to the looser definition of the ]. The definition no longer applies as during 2008 the Garda Divisions were realigned along Regional and county boundaries. As of 2009, the Dublin Metropolitan Region is co-extensive with the ]. This boundary has legal importance, for example licences for digital television in Dublin, such as that held by ], cover the Metropolitan Area.

==Other movements==
] was moved to the ] Division and became the district headquarters for the new Leixlip District . ] moved into the new ] Division and became district headquarters for the Bray District .

The term originated from the ; that act amagamated the ] and ] as one national police force.

==Planning usage==
A similar term has been used in the Regional Planning Guidelines. Instead of the "Dublin Metropolitan Area ", they refer to the ]. In this context, the area of Dublin and its environs is to be consolidated as a suburban and metropolitan district. It differentiates between which towns are considered ], and which are considered ]s. The area is considered as being from Swords and ] in ] to Greystones in County Wicklow in the south, and as far west as ] in County Kildare. This differs from the Garda designation in that it stretches some 20 km further west.

==See also==
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