Holiday home owners in Connemara (and elsewhere)

Thelonious Monk

Etc wrote: »

For all you angry country people out there, just remember we Dubs have long memories, major arteries into Dublin will be blocked on the 8th December when you put your finery on and to try come to Dublin to buy new antimacassars and attend the Gaiety Panto.

We don't want you coming up here in yer 25 year old Toyota's, Passat's and Audi A4's polluting the city with green diesel fumes.

We also had to put up with the f*ckers closing down half of Dublin when they drove their tractors here

Plumbthedepths

BarryD2 wrote: »

People who went off a couple of weeks ago to second properties are not an issue afaik, as long as they stay there. It's the numpties heading off because the weather has picked up or that they booked a house for Easter months ago and don't want to lose the value of it.




Yes, there was no legal avenue to enforce until this week. But why do people have to be threatened with fines and criminal records just to do what they know is the right thing at the moment.

Ideal world doesn't exist where people do what is right. Sometimes you need a big stick.

Theboinkmaster

Antares35 wrote: »

I know this. A simpleton could check the car and tell you what the occupants' real plans are but how are they enforcing it? Are they making people turn back - how can they even do this?

What do you mean how? They tell them to turn around and go back or else they can be arrested/fined I assume.

secman

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I notice all the message signs on the M50 Southbound are reading as long delays. Presumably checkpoints to prevent people heading to Bray?

https://www.tiitraffic.ie/message_signs/

I had to travel from Wexford to Dublin Tue and Wed , our company is working on 3 essential services projects so we have a reduced office staff of 3 operating from the office, usually 12 plus. Im working from home today and tomorrow but due back in on Tuesday. I was caught up in the tailback on m50 yesterday evening at 7pm, took an hour to get through it. The optics of it looked bad but its very easy to create a huge tailback when you reduce 3 lanes into 1 lane. From what i could see of cars sround me before we entered the single lane i saw no cars with more than 1 person in them. There were plenty of vans and trucks too which were also essential work. I could see the checkpoint from a good way back and i didnt see 1 vehicle being escorted by a garda motorcycle to the next exit which was a good 2km io the road. Furthermore i passed aporox 50 vehicles max from checkpoint to exit 23 at Gorey so majority of vehicles were not going to Wexford. But because that twat Des Cahill put out a tweet last night about the traffic on N11, Southeast Radio has been bad mouthing Dublin people all morning , for once in my Life i can agree with Trump, whom i cannot abide by, and see how Fake news works. I would love to have a word to Des Cahill.

saabsaab

saabsaab wrote: »

Don't know I knew a city Dub calling a fella from near Lucan a culchie!

The majority of my family are from city centre area.
We used to laugh at the suburbs and call them countryside. Areas like Blanch, Clondalkin, Coolock.

Now Dublin has spread into Meath, Kildare, Wicklow and even Wexford / Laois

Ballso

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/gardai-investigating-posters-threatening-holiday-home-owners-at-clare-resort-993175.html

Some scumbags out there

Pkiernan

Ballso wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/gardai-investigating-posters-threatening-holiday-home-owners-at-clare-resort-993175.html

Some scumbags out there

Guaranteed to have voted SF.

John_Rambo

/\/ollog wrote: »

Or, yknow... Talk to the people. Maybe as a perhaps maybe cashier at a maybe perhaps shop maybe?

Is that a good idea, calling in to multiple shops just to see how many D reg cars have stopped? Particularly now that it's become clear that the "Doctors" post is a hoax and it was false news that Dubliners were leaving the city in droves.

Antares35

Antares35 wrote: »

I know this. A simpleton could check the car and tell you what the occupants' real plans are but how are they enforcing it? Are they making people turn back - how can they even do this?

Presumably they take a note of reg numbers they know right well to be breaking the rules, and tell them to turn back. If the car is then seen again approaching the locale via another road without good reason they could end up in court.

Plumbthedepths

Ballso wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/gardai-investigating-posters-threatening-holiday-home-owners-at-clare-resort-993175.html

Some scumbags out there

Do you mean the ones that refused to stay at home, or the concerned locals?

saabsaab

Deleted User wrote: »

Presumably they take a note of reg numbers they know right well to be breaking the rules, and tell them to turn back. If the car is then seen again approaching the locale via another road without good reason they could end up in court.

How about increasing their tax?

tobefrank321

Sales of pitchforks are up in rural areas in preparation for the weekend, so I hear.

saabsaab

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

We also had to put up with the f*ckers closing down half of Dublin when they drove their tractors here

Is this your revenge?

Discodog

Antares35 wrote: »

One thing I don't understand is whether people are actually being sent home? looking at the news this morning and it shows tailbacks on the N11, people presumably heading to Wicklow and Wexford. Is everyone just telling the Gardaí that they are going "shopping for essentials"? How do they prove it? How are they sent home?

It is the usual story in this country - legislation in place but cannot be enforced.

The Gardai should have to justify the legislation & show how many people were breaking he law & how many were turned back.

Muahahaha

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Sales of pitchforks are up in rural areas in preparation for the weekend, so I hear.

The newly formed Kilkee Residents Health Defence Action Group has swung into action

https://twitter.com/MTaylorClare/status/1248017779237634048

Mitch Connor

Hope the police arrest those involved - it can not be tolerated.

CIARAN_BOYLE

I know a nurse. She lives with her parents.

She is working on the front line. She has dealt with coronavirus positive patients for more than a month now. She has accepted that more than likely she will get coronavirus.

Her parents have gone to a borrowed holiday house 3 weeks ago so their front line daughter doesn't risk bringing coronavirus into their home.

Her parents have been shouted at in a town when doing shopping to go back to Dublin.

It's not helpful at all.

degsie

Muahahaha wrote: »

The newly formed Kilkee Residents Health Defence Action Group has swung into action

Another wind-up and a bad photoshop at that!

Ballso

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

I know a nurse. She lives with her parents.

She is working on the front line. She has dealt with coronavirus positive patients for more than a month now. She has accepted that more than likely she will get coronavirus.

Her parents have gone to a borrowed holiday house 3 weeks ago so their front line daughter doesn't risk bringing coronavirus into their home.

Her parents have been shouted at in a town when doing shopping to go back to Dublin.

It's not helpful at all.

Disgusting.

nadroir

I think it's up to each community on how feel over these holiday home people coming down for weekend or whatever

Yes its wrong, yes Gardai doing best, but some don't care. Its in the hands of ones in community affected most to deal with this now and in future

If people cannot accept the wishes of the local community who they stay with however long it maybe then there is simple old Irish way

A holiday home in place not welcome is pretty much pointless

that old Irish way? The way Captain Charles Boycott got treated

Now lets wait for the hate and attach over my message lol

Muahahaha

degsie wrote: »

Another wind-up and a bad photoshop at that!

No, its real, the photo was taken and tweeted by a Peace Commissioner in Kilkee, he is literally doing his job by calling out vigilantes. Newstalk just covered it too.

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Her parents have gone to a borrowed holiday house 3 weeks ago so their front line daughter doesn't risk bringing coronavirus into their home.

Her parents have been shouted at in a town when doing shopping to go back to Dublin.

It's not helpful at all.

Yeah there seems to be a lot of headless hysteria going about. It wasnt helped by those news images of the traffic jams on the motorways that the Gardai deliberately created yesterday. Looking at that people are thinking there is a mass exodus going on to rural areas and its so bad there are tailbacks on the motorways. Reality is Gardai funnelled three lanes into one and of course you're going to get traffic jams when that happens. It was all optics for the TV cameras but its ended up making some people think a million Dubliners are coming their way this weekend.

Anyway a cursory search of Airbnb for a Monday to Friday stay in May in Galway throws up over 200 houses for rent. I wonder whats going on there, are owners still renting them out?

Plumbthedepths

Muahahaha wrote: »

No, its real, the photo was taken and tweeted by a Peace Commissioner in Kilkee, he is literally doing his job by calling out vigilantes. Newstalk just covered it too.



Yeah there seems to be a lot of headless hysteria going about. It wasnt helped by those news images of the traffic jams on the motorways that the Gardai deliberately created yesterday. Looking at that people are thinking there is a mass exodus going on to rural areas and its so bad there are tailbacks on the motorways. Reality is Gardai funnelled three lanes into one and of course you're going to get traffic jams when that happens. It was all optics for the TV cameras but its ended up making some people think a million Dubliners are coming their way this weekend.

Anyway a cursory search of Airbnb for a Monday to Friday stay in May in Galway throws up over 200 houses for rent. I wonder whats going on there, are owners still renting them out?

Des Cahill deserves a special mention for his idiotic tweet.

Ballso

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Des Cahill deserves a special mention for his idiotic tweet.

What a scumbag

Sono Topolino

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

I know a nurse. She lives with her parents.

She is working on the front line. She has dealt with coronavirus positive patients for more than a month now. She has accepted that more than likely she will get coronavirus.

Her parents have gone to a borrowed holiday house 3 weeks ago so their front line daughter doesn't risk bringing coronavirus into their home.

Her parents have been shouted at in a town when doing shopping to go back to Dublin.

It's not helpful at all.

Two ways of looking at this. The first is as you described it, the second is that they may have already caught Coronavirus from their daughter 3 weeks ago and have brought it into a rural community.

The locals are obviously more worried about that.

BPKS

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Des Cahill deserves a special mention for his idiotic tweet.

Cant see anything more idiotic than usual from him.

What idiotic tweet in particular?

Coralcoras

Sono Topolino wrote: »

Two ways of looking at this. The first is as you described it, the second is that they may have already caught Coronavirus from their daughter 3 weeks ago and have brought it into a rural community.

The locals are obviously more worried about that.

If groceries are delivered to the house I do not see the problem if they are vulnerable to bad outcomes from infection. Less stress on the health system?

It’s going into the small-sized local businesses that’s the problem.

Living in a holiday-home-heavy rural area.

The real issue is Sky-high house prices for locals... think this is the source of resentment obvious here.

Plumbthedepths

BPKS wrote: »

Cant see anything more idiotic than usual from him.

What idiotic tweet in particular?

All of them, but the particular one I mentioned concerns the N11.

martingriff

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Des Cahill deserves a special mention for his idiotic tweet.

What did he tweet

edit seen now.

Muahahaha

Its a bit of a joke anyway, look at this list for reasons for travelling




"Hi Garda, we're going to our holiday home to get it ready for rental, the legislation specifically states that we are allowed to travel for the purpose of rental activities"

Glib I know but if the legislation is allowing exceptions for people to engage in vague "rental activities" then Im not sure how Gardai can stop them.

devondudley

its the rental and leasing of vehicles like cars, trucks, lorries. in order to keep supply chain going. if you click on rental it says that