Rural Planning Loonies Shit on Rep of Country People
It seems that the rural loony element in Kerry are perpetuating the image of “mad boggers” with their protests over planning restrictions outside Kerry County Council’s monthly planning meeting last night.
The protest was organised by the Irish Rural Dwellers Association. Here’s a snippet of coverage from today’s Irish Times:
IRDA founder Jim Connolly told the protest rural dwellers were suffering from “British ideology”. “When we introduced planning laws in 1963 we invited British rule and ideas back into this country,” he said.
Oh, dear. British rule, well I never.
Their website makes my eyes bleed. From their ‘About’ section:
The IRDA main aim is: “To unite all rural dwellers and people of goodwill towards rural Ireland and in the context of peaceful, multi cultural co-existence in the common cause of ensuring, by legal and constitutional means, the growth and maintenance of a vibrant, populated countryside in the traditional Irish forms of baile fearann or dispersed village, sraid bhaile or street village and the clachan or nucleated (clustered village)”.
Oh, doesn’t the aim of the organisation seem to conflict comments made by Mr. Connolly? Bitching about planning regulations and comparing them to British ideology doesn’t seem very multicultural to me. How about you?
And the About section goes on to use the obligatory JFK reference. Is it time to run about the arena, do a lap of honour and high-five people. Oh, dear:
To paraphrase John F. Kennedy – it is not a matter of what `they should be doing’ nor indeed `what we should be doing’ but rather the question must be `what should I be doing to make things happen’.
Anyone hear the Deliverance banjos in the distance? Do those hills have eyes? Landed farmers aren’t fighting in IRDA for anything else other than money. Cries about uniting people for the purpose of insuring that countryside remains populate is horseshit. It’s all about the money and that’s the way it’s going to stay. More of this to come, methinks.