If you live in Coolock and somebody in Donegal is building a bungalow, you have the right to lodge a planning objection.
If you live in Coolock and Government is proposing a tent encampment in your area for 1,000 migrant males, you have no legal rights at all.
Thus, "unrest".
In 1996, Graingers Pub in Baldoyle installed a crèche inside the lounge. For £1 an hour, your toddlers and kids could go mad enmass in a soft play area whilst mammy and daddy skull pints and smoke in the next room.
Publican Mark Grainger applied for planning permission for the country’s first ever pub crèche in 1993. However, in a rare positive decision to protect families, Fingal County Council refused to allow it, citing a pub was no place for children and would encourage parental neglect.
However, that paragon of incorruptiblity, An Bord Pleanála intervened and permission was granted just months later. Yet another short-sighted, bad faith, money motivated decision by ABP which aged like milk! Curious to know people's opinions on this issue?
I usually post these (while adding a few new ones) every year on Tiger Woods' birthday, but who wants to wait that long when we're going to see him back on the course Thursday?
Here's a thread of some of the most insane Tiger on-course stats in his historic career --
Some thoughts on the day's events, if I may:
When thousands of people protested peacefully in East Wall, and in other communities across Dublin and the country, their reward was not to be recognised or engaged with for their peaceful political participation.
Their reward was rather to be called far right, deplorable, and the dregs of Irish society. The thing against which they protested happened anyway.
When peaceful mothers and women said, on camera, that they feared for their safety as a result of an influx of immigrant men, often into communities with no amenities for those men, their reward was to be accused of fearmongering.
There are those, clutching for a gotcha, who will say something like "aha, but today's suspect/person of interest is a naturalised Irish citizen". But does it speak well of an immigration system that naturalises people capable (allegedly) of such acts? Does that inspire confidence, or does it sound like patronising nonsense?
There are those who sincerely believe, apparently, that the duty of media organisations is to suppress facts, like nationality, in order to maintain public order. But if the suppression of facts is required to maintain public order, then we have many bigger problems. And we do.
A huge section of people in this country feel as if they are unheard and their concerns ignored. 1,000 people marched in Rosslare at the weekend. Did you hear about it? When Danny Healy Rae raised the case of Killarney this week in the Dáil, a colleague responded with a sweary tirade of abuse. Is this democracy?
When a young man, last week, linked the murder of his beloved girlfriend to Ireland's immigration policies, the media dutifully left that bit out of their coverage.
Every single effort has been made to silence people. Today, they made themselves heard. I wish they had chosen another way.
And then I remember: They did. And you all refused to listen.
A truck driver alleged to have put the future of his employer at risk by defecating in a client's loading bay during an “urgent diarrhoea” incident has told the WRC that he decided not to tell anyone about it because he thought it would wash away in a thunderstorm.
The KFC twitter account only follows 11 people. The 5 spice girls & 6 guys named herb. This is bc of their “secret blend” of 11 herbs and spices. The 1st person to notice and point this out was sent a painting of himself holding a drumstick while riding piggyback on the Colonel.