I recently coined a phrase, which I have to admit I like a lot;
Life is what happens, when Plan A fails!
This does not explain the family issues that I have been weeding through, but it surely explains all of the artifacts that my life has had to date.
Having driven the Cork to Dublin (or Dublin to Cork road take your pick) more than a few times, I realize that the upcoming Motorway while making the trip faster, it will make it more dangerous, boring and expensive. It will be faster, burn up more gas, and toll payments, wear out my car faster, and cause accidents by drunks, boy racers and road fatigue.
But there is another cost, and this one is a big unknown, Lifestyles of the communities along the old road.
In many ways, the towns along the way make a living from the traffic, but in a more ethereal way the motorway will disconnect each community along the way from each other, and the people traveling past them. It will erode the distributed population, and create a conduit to increased centralization in Dublin.
Having grown up in the Central U.S. I know that the era of the superhighway pretty much destroyed small town america. In a real way the world passed them by, slowly draining away the youth, and futures of small towns. One more nail in the coffin of Ireland that was, one more notch in the handle of globalization.
And you know, I’m going to miss the view.
I was watching a historic program the other day, and was amazed that Dublin was considered the Second City of the British Empire, Second to London! Very interesting, so, in fact the people who pride themselves on being Dubliners are really (secretly) proud to be from the second city of the British Empire 😉 and not really Irish at all :-0
Maybe that is why they continue to believe that corrupt politicians are the norm, and continue to vote for Bertie, better the devil you know, Eh!
After seeing the disaster that is Rathfarnham Castle and the general neglect that is Rathfarnham town in general. There is one redemption in Dublin, Phoenix Park After seeing the graffiti painted and chiseled into castle’s embattled walls to the rusty neglected post boxes outside the post office in the village. Phoenix Park was truly a breath of fresh air.
Gambling ads ban to be scrapped
When are we finally going to pass a law on how to wipe your ass? Do you know how much toilet paper we waste in this country? Think of the emotional harm brought to our young people fondling their behinds excessively? Think of the environmental harm we are doing by cutting down all the trees to wipe our collective behinds?
Why stop with telling people what they can do? Why not publish a book on how everything should be done. That sounds like a ‘free’ country now, doesn’t it?
Wait, They have published books on this The Bible and the Quran!
What happened to Freedom, what are we fighting for all over the world? To bring the world under a collective control? Sounds more like religious restriction and control than freedom to me!
Isn’t that what Jihad is?
Digital Rights Ireland has gained new visibility in this article Digital rights activists take aim at EU data laws And more power to them. It’s about time that the governments of EU remember who they work for, the citizens of the EU.
As in the words of V ‘people shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their citizens’
As opposed to The Spaniard in Kinsale 😉
I have been prospecting for jobs in Dublin, and while I know that I can find one there, the prospect of having to live in Dublin is not brilliant. I wouldn’t mind the community letting me know, what working in the Big Smoke is really like.