Campervans in Marina area?

I also sail in DL. Not many people turn up for regattas with camper vans for crew. Most visitors to our club are happy to sleep on board or in hotels/BB's etc. When visiting other clubs, including Howth, we have stayed on board.

There was litter and sewage issues in DL. Not all, or many, but some users. That's all takes.

It's unfair to label critics of camper vans over nighting in Howth or elsewhere as busy bodies etc.

What is needed in both locations, and elsewhere, are custom built pitches for campers with the required facilities for them. Obviously, these would cost more to stay in and may impact the popularity of them.

You're correct, not many people turn up to regattas in campers but some do.

There's no record of litter & sewage from campers in DL. The statement from Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown local authority cited other reasons, if there was cases of effluent this would be emphatically stated.

It's perfectly fair to accuse people critical of people parked up doing nothing wrong as busybodies.

Unfortunately that's not how Ireland works. When people complain and make up scurrilous stories because they don't like people in Campervan's, barriers are put up and it's ruined for everyone. There's no alternative arrangements made for the people in campers unlike other countries where aires are set up and the complainers will wonder in years to come did they do the right thing.

I remembered this thread when I saw the pic.

That notice has a classic grammar mistake which significantly alters the meaning. It clearly hasn’t been run past a solicitor.

If you say, “no overnight parking will be allowed,” this means that it is permissible not to park there overnight. What they presumably meant to write was, “overnight parking will not be allowed.”

Back in the 80s when “no smoking” started to become a thing in local government offices in the UK, my uncle continued to smoke at his desk for months until they eventually replaced the badly worded “no smoking is allowed” sign. He told his boss that he agreed fully with the sign because nobody should be forced to smoke :)

Especially when you complain to the city council.

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Yeah, you're right. I got carried away. It's just exasperating that campervan owners to be punished because of busybodies. I love visiting Cork. The OP couldn't even pinpoint a problem, they just didn't like them… so some "problems" were created.

What I predicted in February happened: "When people complain and make up scurrilous stories because they don't like people in Campervan's, barriers are put up and it's ruined for everyone. There's no alternative arrangements made for the people in campers"

I think a few have spoiled it for the rest. I had a mate so down in his camper a few times a year en route to Killarney and it was great to visit them, glass of wine by the river, but now it's like a trailer park. Let's see what the council come up with a apparently they have a new location

Wild camping is fine, short term overnight is fine and both accepted by the council.

The issue is resident campers, 12 months isn't wild camping, plus if there's photographic evidence of toilet cassettes being emptied into the Lee close to where kids row, that's just not on

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/nowhere-go-owner-well-known-29207340

With circa 250 parking spaces there was never a case of them all being taken up by campers.

I have seen loads of rubbish left after people "camping" (actually drinking with tents) around national parks and beaches and I can see why authorities aren't keen on it, because of a minority of tosspots.

I'd hazard a guess that a number of the full time campervans down on the Marina are there because of the accommodation crisis, not because they really, really like living in a van. It's desperation. I'd say the whingers are likely GAA heads or local John and Marys wanting a walk but too idle to walk from their house.

Re cassettes being supposedly emptied into the river.

Have we forgotten that storm drains empty into the Lee so whenever the council power wash the streets all that goes straight into the river? Have we forgotten that the Lee Swim participants are hosed down after the event ?

The river is far from clean and a couple of cassettes are not the problem.

There should be a managed campervan area in the city. The one is Cobh is a great success.

It won't happen. As I explained previously, that's not how it works in Ireland. It's much easier to ban, stop, halt and appease the moaners than it is to build and improve.

That's almost a four hour walk to the city. The Marina car park is much closer to the city & much handier for tourists like myself who want to stay for a night or two and enjoy a restaurant & knock around the city for the day like the one close to me in Dublin.

Some were essentially living there. Owner of pizza place in barrack street in local media confirmed this, he is one of at least a few.