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Barrier at Fanore

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  • #2
    davidfanore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭davidfanore


    If you're interested, there's also a facebook group setup to discuss this called 'fanore beach users' - not sure how to post a link to it, but this might work http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=123753287652901

    We need as much support as we can get to make the council take this down.


  • #3
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    whats the idea behind it?? did they have trouble with travellers?? or new age travellers??


  • #4
    murraymarmalade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭murraymarmalade


    any pictures of exactly where this barrier is placed people? thanks.


  • #5
    davidfanore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭davidfanore


    Hi - there's pictures on the Fanore Beach Users facebook group page.


  • #6
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,635 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    A facebook group, thats it, issue sorted!


    Seriously, it looks like the council have issues with illegal dumpers/travelers or illegal camping. Like most councils these days.
    They group was set up to:
    "this group is dedicated to people who love Fanore Beach and would like to have a say in how it is managed and protected for all users and future generations."
    All three of those issues will impinge on that reasoning.


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  • #7
    murraymarmalade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭murraymarmalade


    ah....thanks guys. i was under the impression that no cars could access the carpark.


  • #8
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    murraymarmalade wrote: »
    ah....thanks guys. i was under the impression that no cars could access the carpark.

    now, that would have been a bit irish:)


  • #9
    Builderfromhell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Builderfromhell


    Thinking of heading down to Fanore this weekend. Anyone know if barrier is still there. If so there will be traffic chaos on road outside car park as vans and other high vehicles park on narrow road.


  • #10
    OuterBombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭OuterBombie


    Barrier is still there.

    Safe to say the beach will be busy over the weekend so barrier or not there's likely to be some traffic issues. Go down early (before middday) and you'll get a spot no worries.


  • #11
    Builderfromhell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Builderfromhell


    Wondering if barriers are still there and how is traffic coping.


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  • #12
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I could see nothing wrong with this barrier if it helps keep a certain element out.

    The Council has spent tens of thousands of euro in taxpayers money moving travellers with solicitors fees, court orders, security services etc. etc.

    Why can't they just pay some local keyholder?


  • #13
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I could see nothing wrong with this barrier if it helps keep a certain element out.

    The Council has spent tens of thousands of euro in taxpayers money moving travellers with solicitors fees, court orders, security services etc. etc.

    Why can't they just pay some local keyholder?

    What element? Surfers? yeah, I hate them too, bloody hippies! Keep surfers off our beaches!


  • #14
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    What element? Surfers? yeah, I hate them too, bloody hippies! Keep surfers off our beaches!

    I saw a hiace van driving past the other day with a surf board on top. :p


  • #15
    kodute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭kodute


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I could see nothing wrong with this barrier if it helps keep a certain element out.

    The Council has spent tens of thousands of euro in taxpayers money moving travellers with solicitors fees, court orders, security services etc. etc.

    Why can't they just pay some local keyholder?

    I see your point but how about leaving it open 365 days a year until some undesirables move in. Knock on their door and say it is being closed tomorrow at 6am, get out or stay forever. I guarantee they will leave immediately.


  • #16
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    My problem with the barriers is that they do not discourage the undesirable element. What if the undesirable element decides to roll up with cars? Oh No! Our ultimate weapon against them defeated. Also, what about the desirable element that does happen to own larger vehicles? It's like the old joke from the German army. When a soldier fall into the latrine, it gets nailed shut to prevent that sort of thing occurring again. One the one hand you solve the problem, on the other hand it's of course a completely unworkable and braindead solution.


  • #17
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    has it happened before, that the "undesirables" have moved in ??


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