Galway councillors target motorhomers

shaysue

Yesterday's Sunday Times (p6) has an article which states that Fine Gael councillors in Galway "want to target campervans parked in public car parks and along the promenade in Salthill'. This is part of a campaign to introduce by-laws that will stamp out illegal camping in public areas. Ciaran Hayes, director of services in Galway city said " we did have an issue after the Volvo ocean race 2009 where the entire promenade was taken over by campervans and after that event we introduced the relevant by-laws to deal with that'. This article is actually dealing with the inability of the authorities to remove the 'Occupy' protesters from Eyre square.
Motorhomers are now being associated with protestors!
Nowhere in the article is it mentioned that any of these councillors mentioned the possibility of providing aire/stellplatz type facilities for motorhomers especially during large events such as the Volvo race. 6 sites down by the docks in Galway is hardly sufficient for the numbers of motorhomers now active in Ireland. Camping sites in Salthill have attracted a number of negative comments on websites for various reasons.
When are these local authorities going to realise that motorhomers are tourists and in the main, spend locally.
Methinks we are once more being associated with a certain so called minority ethnic group in some minds and not seen as staycationers helping the economy. If this seems like a rant.....it is

niloc1951

Don't get upset, just take the ferry, or visit a town here at home which welcomes you and your cash

shaysue

shaysue wrote: »

a certain so called minority ethnic group

...windsurfers? But they're self-cleaning!

paddyp

I was there for the volvo ocean race there were about 12 campers total.

The campsites were full what do they expect.