"Green" policies are destroying this country

Good to know. Mention that to Eamon Ryan or Pauline O`Reilly should you happen to run into either and let me know their reaction.

Their reaction in a couple of years will be 'do you want fries with that?'.

Ryan might get the start with McDonald`s in Dublin, but I doubt Pat Mc Donagh would give O`Reilly the start for any reason other than her maybe being a decent camogie player. Even then he would probably put her into one of his establishments off a ring road

Ya wont get an answer for your last question. Only its magic. Magical fantasy land.

Nope. People like cars.

That is a very simple understanding of why public transport in Ireland is so bad. Nearly 32 percent of the population live in rural areas and what the greens don't seem to understand is that figure is not going to change , this green wet dream of everyone living in towns and cities is like the majority of their policies pure fantasy. The car is embedded in rural Ireland and no matter who is in government they wouldn't be able to facilitate transport to every village. We have 1.8million people living rurally and that is why we are car reliant. We are amongst the most rural countries in Europe and that ain't going to change so the sooner the greens realise that we are not Germany the better. The car is here to stay unless the greens are going to force 33 percent of the population from rural to urban living. Maybe just maybe some people like living in the countryside and not in a green shithole utopia where we are all on top of each other.

100%

their policy’s are detrimental to Irish economy & even if we did 100% everything they want, 100% carbon neutral country (which is complete bollox)

It wouldn’t even be a drop in the ocean

so their carbon taxes & ban on turf are useless.

I personally would have absolutely no issue with that as a now rural dweller, ex-Dub.

Park 'n' Ride at the Luas cow is absolutely brilliant and judging by how frantic it can be at times shows many others feel the same. I'd only ever drive into the city out of pure necessity.

I'll be watching the Bus Connects at Liffey Valley with keen interest, too, to see if that could cut some of my car journey out for heading Northside.

Give people good public transport that's accessible and reliable and the vast majority flock to it. The LUAS is a perfect example.

But try and berate me simply for having a car - pull the other one, frankly.

I don't expect public transport options available to me to be to the same availability, accessibility and frequency as somewhere in Dublin so in return I expect government to accept that reality, and not try and punish those who own a car purely out of necessity.

Nor do I accept being punished for rural living - frankly I'm not prepared to play into the insane house prices in Dublin at the moment, for many, the only way to own a home in this country is to live some distance away from where you grew up and have to commute in most cases back to Dublin. If they're going to try and recentralise everything then the current housing shortage in Dublin will look like a mild inconvenience.

If they want to ban cars completely, then start in Dublin - I'd watch with keen interest how that goes down with their local electorate before they start trying to push it on everyone. But then it's easier to discommode a much less populated rural electoral area far away from Dail Eireann than somewhere like Dun Laoghaire.