The Histronic NIMBY Irish

MrAbyss

I was googling something about the Luas and the old Harcort Street railway station and I came across this gem in the Indo:

September 7 2003 12:11 AM

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  LOUISE HEALY "IT'S like being in Baghdad - only worse," was the way one businessman on Dublin's Harcourt Street described the impact of the Luas works which have caused chaos on the street for two years.

"We survived September 11. We've survived the Iraqi war. But I really don't know if we can survive the Luas," said Henry King of Harrington's Hotel.

Here are business people in central Dublin saying that the 9/11 mass murder in NYC, and the Iraq War in which 1.5 million died was nothing compared to some run-of-the-mill tram line being brought into their street. Ostensibly, a machine that will bring customers to your business for the next century.

and here they all are out again howling in mass psychiatric episodes over the Metro using one small GAA pitch for a few years (which they would have been handsomely remunerated for and the pitch restored), along with the residents of Griffith Ave and Renlagh acting like they are about to be transported to a death camp for BusConnects and Luas upgrades.

We see this all over the country - from some groups protesting a four storey 'skyscraper', to the Apple Data Centre in Athenry.

It is actually amazing anything in this country gets done with all the NIMBYs out screaming in convulsion in the media and elsewhere just for the sake of it.

My father says if you want to do anything in Ireland a committee immediately forms to stop you.

topper75

Yeah electronics in Ireland is history alright.
So much cheaper in Asia.

nullzero

[Deleted User] wrote: »

My father says if you want to do anything in Ireland a committee immediately forms to stop you.

Just to clarify it's a COM-IT-EEEEEE, in most parts of the country.

Thelonious Monk

Just accept that we'll never have skyscrapers or a metro, or even a bloody decent bus lane, or properly planned towns and cities, the Irish people ultimately don't want it, life is too short to worry about these things

nullzero

nullzero wrote: »

Just to clarify it's a COM-IT-EEEEEE, in most parts of the country.

:rolleyes:

nullzero

[Deleted User] wrote: »

:rolleyes:

You from one of those places yourself?

nullzero

nullzero wrote: »

You from one of those places yourself?

I misspelled a word in a post and you have the self-importance to point it out?

I don't know where you are from, but I know where you are going.

nullzero

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I misspelled a word in a post and you have the self-importance to point it out?

I don't know where you are from, but I know where you are going.

What?

What I posted was a comedic take on how the word committee is pronounced in rural Ireland.

I have no idea what the above is about.

Ipso

nullzero wrote: »

What?

What I posted was a comedic take on how the word committee is pronounced in rural Ireland.

I have no idea what the above is about.

Back to Ahascragh with ye!

Stop moaning ffs

A huge factor in this is people lodging planning objection complaints. And then being paid off by whatever developer to drop the objection. Happens far more than you’d believe possible.