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Thread: Achill-henge --Joe McNamara’s latest stunt?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Half Nelson View Post
    The Beeb didn't use the word 'stupid', or any other such word about 'us'.
    They don't need to, it is all there in the story.
    Bu, indi bütün uşaq mavi var!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Astral Peaks View Post
    They don't need to, it is all there in the story.
    No it's not.... unless you want it to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Half Nelson View Post
    No it's not.... unless you want it to be.
    Suppose he had built it with actual stone, employing masons and such, then I could see some merit in it.

    But just plonking pre-cast concrete into the bog, sorry, it is close to vandalism in my book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Astral Peaks View Post
    Suppose he had built it with actual stone, employing masons and such, then I could see some merit in it.

    But just plonking pre-cast concrete into the bog, sorry, it is close to vandalism in my book.
    Just wait 'til it's finished. The lick of whitewash will work wonders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Half Nelson View Post
    Just wait 'til it's finished. The lick of whitewash will work wonders.
    He'll have to do something, the acidic nature of the soil will wreak havoc with the concrete fairly quickly, I would have thought?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Half Nelson View Post
    Just wait 'til it's finished. The lick of whitewash will work wonders.
    This thread continues to slowly beggar belief. A lick of whitewash????

    Maybe a lick of whitewash would improve his unfinished hotel in Keel too? Maybe his debts could be whitewashed? And planning law?

    So, the devil-may-care ego-maniac who erects bland, illegal folly on preserved commonage land instead of servicing significant debts = The people's champion! Lovable rogue! Sticking it the man!
    Advocates of abiding by the law, and general common sense = Begrudger scum! Establishment Ireland! Philistines!

    As said before - if this thing doesn't get dismantled ASAP, and if McNamara isn't dealt with harshly by the courts, the precedent it sets is massive. It's basically a free-for-all. Sure let's build a crude replica of the Colossus of Rhodes on top of a crude replica of an Egyptian pyramid in the middle of the Burren, a 6-storey underground carpark, a galvanised lean-to on the side, and a two-story wooden toilet block without doors on the back.

    It's a similar "sure fair play to him" attitude to the one seen in the welfare fraud thread. For some inexplicable reason, Irish people who cheat, steal, take shortcuts, shirk responsibility and display nothing but pure mé-feinery are treated with affection, even pride (!), and given a wink and a smile. It's truly bizarre, given that generally such types are basically shafting you, either directly or indirectly as a neighbour/taxpayer/law-abider/etc. People can rant on with the usual 'but the BANKERS!!!" invective, but as I see it, the attitude that facilitated the grand economic mess is the exact same as the one I'm talking about here.

    Now I need a lie down
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    Quote Originally Posted by Astral Peaks View Post
    He'll have to do something, the acidic nature of the soil will wreak havoc with the concrete fairly quickly, I would have thought?


    Joe used Suplhate Resisting Cement.

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    Achill Henge the Tomb Monument to the Celtic tiger is to be demolished!

    see Mayo News
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    Quote Originally Posted by An-Óg-Laoch View Post
    Achill Henge the Tomb Monument to th eCeltic tiger is to be demolished!

    see Mayo News
    Thank god for that!

    I hope (I know it's a desperate one) that we're not paying for it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toland View Post
    Thank god for that!

    I hope (I know it's a desperate one) that we're not paying for it.
    I believe that Joe would starve to death sooner than take it down.

    There are thousands of developments unfinished or in dangerous conditions accross the State and there is no planning enforcement.

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