Booze & Hayden

A different take on the harbour protest day from one local councillor.

Cllr Ciaran Hayden has suggested that Harbour Protest Group GUBOH should disband in light of local outrage at their ´celebration´day on the 3rd July being turned into a lark in the park style drinking binge party. Many local people were very upset that the bucket and spade party was moved from the beach to a local pub where alcohol was widely available and consumed openly in front of young children. Hundreds of children had shown up on the slip only to be directed, with their buckets and spades, to a local pub.

Cllr Hayden said after being contacted by several furious locals "this group needs to seriously look at what they are trying to achieve. For them it has become protest for the sake of protest. They advertised a bucket and spade celebration and then destroyed the children's day out by moving it without reason to a pub. I was at the harbour all day on that Sunday and there was no reason why the beach could not have been used by the children. It is my opinion that they used children to further their own protest. They now need to disband - they have little or no credibility left."

So, what about Ciaran Hayden's 'Americana & Roots Festival' this coming weekend, mostly in pubs, and with a — wait for it! — children's day in the Beach House field, with his bouncy castles, etc etc.

Are the bouncies for adults? Is alcohol banned?

Just asking...

http://www.greystonesguide.com/articles/article/6923792/157466.htm