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Kerry decides it's an island (seriously)

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  • 11-11-2014 2:04pm
    #1
    IsaacWunder
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭


    Did you hear the one about the Kerryman who tried to sail from Tralee to Limerick?

    In an staggering show of contempt for maps the councillors of Kerry have voted overwhelmingly to change the status of the county to an island. And instead of building a bridge over their problems they now plan to petition the EU to further their campaign.

    Hopefully there is some way for these idiot councillors to sail away before they arrive in Brussels to embarrass us. Knowing their contempt for atlases they'll probably try and walk to Brussels.


    Kerry politicians agree to seek island status


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    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Well with enough explosive we can make their (and our) dreams come true ;)


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    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,763 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    gandalf wrote: »
    Well with enough explosive we can make their (and our) dreams come true ;)

    Float away, Healy-Raes... (we wish).


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    joe stodge
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭joe stodge


    A Kerry man walking by a field spots a mate of his rowing a boat in the middle of it, no water anywhere for miles.
    He shouts at him "it's ejits like you why the rest of the country calls us thick. if I could swim I'd go over there and kick the shït outta ya".


    This seems very close to real life now, class.


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    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I suspect they're taking the piss

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    Uncle Ruckus
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Uncle Ruckus


    ...:confused:


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    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Why Kerry?

    It should be Dublin that should be pushed off the map. They cancelled our concerts. They'll never be forgiven.


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    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    So glad my all that tax we pay is being used to discuss the really important issues


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    entropi
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Who elects these people to local office? Seriously!


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    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    entropi wrote: »
    Who elects these people to local office? Seriously!

    People in Kerry, the same people who keep voting for the Healy-Raes!!!


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    Packrat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Packrat


    Did anyone actually read the link?

    “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”



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    jamesbere
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    I think there doing this to highlight the issue that no progress is been made with the two by passes, I seriously doubt they believe Kerry is an island.


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    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    True or false, I smell a Healy Rae sniffing around this somewhere.


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    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »
    Why Kerry?

    It should be Dublin that should be pushed off the map. They cancelled our concerts. They'll never be forgiven.

    We don't want your forgiveness.
    Also, if Dublin was pushed off the map, who would subsidise the rest of the country?


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    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »
    Why Kerry?

    It should be Dublin that should be pushed off the map.

    Dublin people would be very happy with that arrangement

    all our hard earned tax spent on the capital instead of propping up 25 unviable counties


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    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »
    Why Kerry?

    It should be Dublin that should be pushed off the map. They cancelled our concerts. They'll never be forgiven.

    Your attempts to crow-bar Garth Brooks into every second thread you make a contribution to is a little tiresome tbh.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    OP, ever hear the words facetious or scarcasm?


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    drumswan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭drumswan


    Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »
    It should be Dublin that should be pushed off the map.
    Yes please.


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    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    jamesbere wrote: »
    I think there doing this to highlight the issue that no progress is been made with the two by passes, I seriously doubt they believe Kerry is an island.

    Could they not spend more time lobbing the relevant bodies then rather than pointless motions that make the local authorities look ridiculous?


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    humanji
    Registered Users Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    MOD: Firstly, people may want to actually read the article. And secondly, don't start with the "My county is better than your county" rubbish.


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    Packrat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Packrat


    marco_polo wrote: »
    Could they not spend more time lobbing the relevant bodies then rather than pointless motions that make the local authorities look ridiculous?

    Well having run a business there for many years, I would say that if I HAD lived on an island, I wouldn't have had to get up any earlier than I had to in order to get to either of the two nearest cities.
    It's disgusting that snails on one hand and thatch cottages on the other can impede progress for near 25 years.

    I jeer when I see the "Macroom needs a bypass" signs now, - when there was money to build one, they Fcuked it up themselves with infighting over the route by vested interests.
    Fcuk yis now, - languish in my exhaust fumes as I crawl through your sh1thole of a town.

    On the Adare side, - again, vested interests wouldn't have a bypass. I hope they die of asphyxiation, those baztards who have had us sitting in hours of traffic for decades so they can sell fags and coffee.

    I make a point of NEVER spending a red cent in either town.

    “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”



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    Kevin McCloud
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    Its roads infrastructure is appaling considering the volume of tourists that visit the county along with all other traffic.


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    IsaacWunder
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭IsaacWunder


    Kyra Pitiful Safe wrote: »
    OP, ever hear the words facetious or scarcasm?

    Why stop at island, then? They could have proposed a motion that Kerry is part of the Moon. It would explain a lot off the lunacy that eliminates from the county, and they might even have attracted the attention of NASA.

    My point is there is a time and place for fatuous analogies like this, and a council chamber isn't one of them. By proposing and voting on motions like this all they do is make themselves, and the people who voted for them, look thick.


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    Mal-Adjusted
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    For those who haven't bothered to read the link, they're clearly doing it as a protest and a way to highlight problems with the road network. The councilors don't actually think Kerry is an Island. (not that it makes this motion any less stupid, mind)


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    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Out of interest how many people are only learning about this issue because of this stunt? I know I was completely ignorant to it, now I know it's a problem. You might say it's stupid, but it is highlighting the issue.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    TGJD
    Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭TGJD


    jamesbere wrote: »
    I think there doing this to highlight the issue that no progress is been made with the two by passes, I seriously doubt they believe Kerry is an island.


    It was a joke based on this. Seriously did no one read the article?


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    ardle1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »
    Why Kerry?

    It should be Dublin that should be pushed off the map. They cancelled our concerts. They'll never be forgiven.
    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Dublin people would be very happy with that arrangement

    all our hard earned tax spent on the capital instead of propping up 25 unviable counties

    Ouch! That had to hurt.....


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    Arsemageddon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Your attempts to crow-bar Garth Brooks into every second thread you make a contribution to is a little tiresome tbh.

    The idea of taking a crow bar to Garth Brooks appeals to me very much!


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    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Dublin people would be very happy with that arrangement

    all our hard earned tax spent on the capital instead of propping up 25 unviable counties

    So would everyone else, what with the taxes paid elsewhere not being shuttled off to Dublin for bullshit pet projects.


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    CB19Kevo
    Registered Users Posts: 799 ✭✭✭CB19Kevo


    Macroom and Adare bypasses are badly needed for both Cork and Limerick as well as Kerry,So anything to highlight this is good in my books.
    Them towns are a disaster for traffic.


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    Topper Harley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Topper Harley


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Out of interest how many people are only learning about this issue because of this stunt? I know I was completely ignorant to it, now I know it's a problem. You might say it's stupid, but it is highlighting the issue.

    The first hint that not the full story was not being told here came in the OP as surely no one could be that stupid. Reading the link confirms that yes indeed, there is more to this story.

    I felt that, from any time I passed through Adare on my way to Kerry, it could do with a bypass but as I don't pass through all that often I never really thought about it once I was out of Adare. This is the first I've ever heard about these potential bypasses and it makes a lot of sense.

    So fair play to those councillors. I don't agree with idiots carrying out stupid pointless stunts that will achieve nothing (à la Mick Wallace and Clare Daly trying to storm a US military aircraft...good work guys :rolleyes:) but this Kerry's an island business will draw attention to a worthwhile, necessary and achievable objective or possibly (if unlikely) get them "access to grant aid and special funding". So they have my support (whatever good that is).


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