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Destruction of Moore Street

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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    It's truly bizzar. You have the relatives groups claiming they are being ignored in the planning of the 1916 celebrations. Their claim hinges on their belief that their contributions are of any greater significance than the average citizen merely by virtue of their lineage.

    If they want to commemorate their grand parents there is nothing preventing them from doing so with their own finances. Let them buy the whole of Moore Street if they can. In the mean time society must move on and end the scourge of dereliction.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭Chinasea


    Dublin city Council must be rotten to the core. There are a load of Christmas stalls all trading along Henry Street selling fake perfumes, bags, hats etc.

    How is this allowed?


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,907 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Chinasea wrote: »
    Dublin city Council must be rotten to the core. There are a load of Christmas stalls all trading along Henry Street selling fake perfumes, bags, hats etc.

    How is this allowed?
    Hey, there has to be somewhere you can go if you want fake perfumes, bags and hats.


  • Registered Users Posts: 80,798 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn


    Chinasea wrote: »
    Dublin city Council must be rotten to the core. There are a load of Christmas stalls all trading along Henry Street selling fake perfumes, bags, hats etc.

    How is this allowed?


    There doesn't appear to be any trading standards type people in Ireland, it's basically a free for all.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,907 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    There doesn't appear to be any trading standards type people in Ireland, it's basically a free for all.
    Trading standards aren't concerned with intellectual property protection. If the perfume you are selling is corrosive or toxic, tradings standards car; if it's not genuine Chanel No. 5, not so much. If the owners of the Chanel No. 5 branding can't be arsed to defend their brand, why should the taxpayer pay to defend it for them?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    There doesn't appear to be any trading standards type people in Ireland, it's basically a free for all.

    I'd imagine the issue is copyright infringement rather than standards, no?
    Lett Coco Chanel sue Mary the casual trader if it wants.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    If the owners of the Chanel No. 5 branding can't be arsed to defend their brand, why should the taxpayer pay to defend it for them?
    They do defend the brand and spend large amounts in doing so in places where the effort is worthwhile. The perfume is so fake/bad it's not worth the effort, the handbags are the main target. The Gardai are not much bothered, but the contraband cops in Italy and the 'fisc' in France give it priority. Try to pass through Customs in CDG with a fake Chanel bag and it will be confiscated and its contents unceremoniously dumped onto a table - if lucky you will be given a plastic bag to remove the junk. The worst copies come from North Africa, the best from North Korea.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    France has an interest in this because of the scale of their fashion industry. Ireland does not.
    When it comes to the law, Ireland is effectively the land of non-enforcement. We don't really have a police force in the pro-active sense, we have a purely reactive set of security guards who spend the majority of time on the national roads checking tax discs or sat in offices falsifying things.

    In this country you can openly run a puppy farm and sell on the internet, quite transparently, and never expect any consequences. You can buy or sell hard drugs in broad daylight in the centre of the Capital's mainstreet, nothing will hapen to you. You can even commit acts of violence and theft with little fear of consequences. You can park a car more/less anywhere you like if you turn on your hazards or if it's time for mass. you can drive in bus lanes whenever you like if you own an Audi or even if you don't but think you are a VIP, if you are wealthy enough you can defraud the state of millions, billions even. You can operate illegal brothels at your discretion. You can overstay your visa, no problem. The list goes on and on. The notion that there is spare capacity within law enforcement in this country to protect the revenue of coco chanel is laughable.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    tac foley wrote: »
    Ladies and Gentlemen - I share with you a national disgrace.

    Texas has The Alamo, a place of sacrifice where their hero ancestors gave their lives so that the Great State could be born. It is, rightly, a national shrine.

    Ireland, a country born out of blood and sacrifice, will have..........Moore Street Shopping Mall.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AYioUyOSfNE

    I really can't think of anything else to say.

    tac

    I agree, but isn't the GPO more traditionally recognized as the spirtual location of the Rising instead of Moore Street?
    At least the GPO looks nice.


  • Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭Ascendant


    I agree, but isn't the GPO more traditionally recognized as the spirtual location of the Rising instead of Moore Street?
    At least the GPO looks nice.


    And easier for the tourists to spot.


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