Local Councillors "Gun Comments"

Sully

I heard something briefly on the radio the other day, about a Carlow councillor who was explaining how Carlow people were intimidated by travellers etc. and that we should all get a gun (or something) which will soon stamp the problem out.

Did anyone else catch the comment made, and have any update? Was she given the sack? She refused to withdraw the comment and apparently higher authorites were getting involved.

(Note: Please no discussion on travellers, the topic at hand is the comments made. Nothing else please. Thanks)

ShayK1

http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/news/story/?trs=mheyidauid&cat=news

Councillor Dennis Foley then suggested penalising the owner of the site by fining him the 3% of the value of the derelict site. This was a reference to a new law being brought in to tidy up the county whereby derelict site owners will be fined 3% of the value if they do not conduct work on the site. “We should look for 3% off that derelict site. You’d think you were in Iraq trying to keep terrorists out,” he said.

They want to fine you for doing nothing now? FFS!!

stick-dan

ShayK1 wrote: »

http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/news/story/?trs=mheyidauid&cat=news



They want to fine you for doing nothing now? FFS!!

They want really only to fine this developer though becasue with this case at hand i worked extremely close to the derelict site in question and indeed came into contact with the travelling community on many occasions. This developer has purposely left the site derelict because the local planning authority would not grant him permission for a massive development that he wanted to put there so when the travelling community moved in on his derelict site he wasn't really ar$ed in moving them off it. Tactical move to get planning if you ask me. Anyway this is what brought all the uproar and let to the comments being made on the situation. With regard to the comments though they are extremely out of order to even suggest such violent means and the owner of such comments should be disgraced and subsequently reviewed before the county council. We did experience problems with the community that moved onto that site but that's neither here nor there as the Original Poster asked us not to make it into a talk on the travelling community but even with the trouble we experienced it doesn't warrant such potentially violent comments to be made.

slimjimmc

"The Last Word" done a piece on it last week.
Matt Cooper really went to town on him , result Cooper 1 - Foley 0.

foggy_lad

truth of it though is if squatters moved in down the street from you your property is devalued and you do not feel as secure as you did before they moved in