All I ask is that I have Jo handcuffed to me left arm,
and that my right arm remains free at all times.

Sign me up!

i visited dublin about a year and a half ago and spent many days wanderin through the Green and sitting by the lake…….it was fall and it was beautiful there……loved my walk around the Guinness buildings…the history….saw a documentary on it all when I returned home and it all seemed pretty special to me.

Being a person from Vancouver….our oldest building isn’t more than a hundred years old and we have very few of those around…….not a huge sense of preserving history here…….I loved my trip around Ireland and walking through places so ancient with so much history that were still in use…….

it is a real shame to hear that not only are they going to develop the Guinness site all in the name of greed, but that they’ll tear up a beautiful urban paradise for the convenience of public transit…..we’ve got a ‘beautiful’ new transit system here….god awful ugly concrete structures running all over the community…elevated…just one more blight on what once was a beautiful natural setting…….can’t see the mountains for the concrete jungle being constructed around the city here

when will people come together and fight the greed of the few evil people who ruin where the majority of us have to live our lives? Those greedy developers can go and enjoy pieces of paradise anytime cause they can afford to jet off somewhere untouched, that they can’t ruin……..the rest of us poor slobs are slowly being buried in concrete…….and will moving the guinness production center ruin its flavor???? that would be sacriligious…..can’t stand the swill they serve on tap here……..it’s brewed in Montreal…there are two little irish oases that serve kegs flown in from ireland and boy………the taste is like well…..incomparable…….

What a shame that greed ruins so much for the rest of us, eh?………could you maybe chain yourself to the Guinness fence or something 20???? :-)……probably can access some wireless service around there…..and im sure your mates would happily bring round some grub and guinness to keep you going……..

C’mon Diagio, give us our pints for €2.50! It’s our birthright.

Development.

Can we please question the meaning of this word?

It implies improvement. Like Ballymun is under development. Blanchardstown is developing quite rapidly.

I question the inherently positive tone of this trojan word.

I can understand children developing. They grow up, cope on, fall out and so on.

But isn’t building on St James Gate and St Stephen’s Green actually regression? What’s being improved here? The face of the city?

People wrote songs about these places. They won’t write songs about hotels that nobody will be able to afford to eat or stay in.

To continue two examples Ballymun and Blanchardstown have been built on. Buidlers call it development. Their wallets develop nicely. Grow, expand, bulge.

People who live there call it the same old, same old. And building on St James’ Gate will just be building more stuff. I suppose it’s their right. But I just won’t be calling it development.

Tomorrow, regenertaion and it’s flaws.

Kilkenny People: “Dublin Dentistry Students Go On Rampage”

Only none of us were Dentistry Students

I’m trying to get a few joints ready in advance, before I have to head off, but I keep lighting them up, and then having to roll more, and then lighting them up, etc.