27 successive days of rain constitutes record according to the City Tribune. It has been spectacularly awful weather of late, even if I did manage to avoid a week of it by leaving the country. Storms and lashing rain. On the prom last week the waves were very impressive and gardners could have helped themselves to fresh seaweed simply by driving a open topped truck or trailer along the coast a it flung through the air with the occassional breaking wave cascading over the pavement.
Once again the issue of the light rail system hits the local headlines, despite the emphatic "no" from the Minister for Transport, it probably is still worth campaigning for, Though with the Compulsory Purchase Orders now having been released for the city bypass road and the maps of the route detailed in the press (and looking like a huge scar across some of the more scenic parts of the city's surroundings) the delusion of more tarmac and more traffic as the solution to the problem of too much traffic seems firmly entrenched in the minds of the local planners.
I'll be popping down along the riverbank past Menlo castle to take some photos for the historical archive before the bridge is built and perhaps even try some sound recordings of the country noises before they too are submerged by the ever present rumble and roar of cars and trucks. Noise pollution seems not yet an issue to folk in Ireland.
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How's it goin' there?
I have to agree with your sentiments about public transport, but you won't get much good out of Cullen. The poor man is challenged in one way or another.
They'll have no bother spending 30 billion on Dublin, but you won't see a tenth of that spent on Galway or Limerick or Cork.
After all, neither the judiciary nor the Media nor the politicians not the civil service live outside Dublin. So there ya go!
The only thing for it is for us to stay constantly hammered to keep our minds off it.
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