How would you feel about a prison being built in your area?

I would welcome it.

I'd say we need 5,000 more prison spaces.

Is there any island off the west coast that could take 1,000?

Although I would like prisoners to work daily, so maybe the island idea isn't great.

Does the govt ever not pay way over the odds?

The govt is so heavily connected to all the fat cats driving black S-Class mercs that paying way over the odds is just the norm.

I would think Lambay Island and maybe one of the uninhabited islands off the coast of Connemara would be perfect sites for two large prisons. Although it would mean the Irish Prison Service would need a ferry service for visitors and other logistics, and accommodation services also for staff and visitors..

No.No.problem at all. It would be good forbthe local economy. Don't think there is a space for it here anywhere do.

Build away.

We already have that - Spike Island in Cork.

NIMBYs are just people who live far away from you when they get concerned that something is happening that they dont like right beside them. Chances are most people would be the same as them but for the fact its far away from them.

Better in someone elses backyard than my own is my motto.

To get back on topic though, they really need to get the finger out and build that supermax prison they spent all the money on out in coolquay.

Government already owns most of Inishvickillane, buy the rest and turn it into the Charlie Haughey memorial prison.

We'd need a decent surplus of space, and not just "just enough".

We build a new one to cover the overcrowding and it'd fill up quickly, the first lot of who'd be sent there instead of suspended sentences would get a big surprise but then we're back where we started after that.

we'd need enough space that it'd have a cultural change, that the idea of easy suspended sentences would be gone.

I know, I know 🤷‍♂️ Come the revolution? I'm fecked😉

Op question is a mute point imho, as we have more than enough free space in this country for a prison to be in no-ones back yard.

But we definitely need more prisons, that's for sure.

where did they say they don't like travellers? They said the place looks like a halting site after 2 families of travelers moved in. maybe there were other travelers in the area before that and the place didn't look like a halting site until these two families moved in.

We had a drug dealer down near us, he was no problem for the neighbourhood, no one complained, but then another drug dealer moved in a bit away, he was bringing lots of scumbags to buy from him at his house, then the two of them were put under strict surveillance and both were jailed and evicted.

Id have no problem with anyone moving near me, as long as they don't make the neighbourhood unsafe or unhygienic and unsightly.