Irish Rural Dwellers Association
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Hi,
I’ve searched google etc. high and low but can find no information on how to contact the Irish Rural Dwellers Association, does anyone know their website / phone number details?
or maybe they’re a covert operation……
My original post was probably libellous. So you get this one instead. Shame.
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I will burn in hell for this.
IRDA,
Kilbaha,
Kilrush,
Co. Clare.(065) 905 8229
@Lobby wrote:
the Irish Rural Dwellers Association
You mean the Irish Rural Destruction Association … (Oh the smug D4-ness of it!! 🙂 )
Devin, daaahling. You really mustn’t be so perfectly beastly when talking about the good people of our regions. I simply won’t stand for it.
Of course dear … and what a ghastly unpleasant place the regions would be without their humble clachans …
So true. I hear tell from my cousin, a Rector near Bandon, that the natives become most restless if deprived of their natural habitat. Although I can not confirm such stories, venturing beyond the Pale as I do so infrequently these days, and then for only the briefest of spells.
Now if you’ll excuse me. I have just been told that the sherry is being served in the drawing room and Veronica is going to play for us. A delicate Strauss waltz, I fancy. Always such an occasion!
*citizenry of the capital scurry to the Castle for cover for the first time in 400 years*
*finds astonished aul wans with hovers clearing up after Ability Awards*
“um sorry lads, we eh…made a mistake – we kinda need it back”
Where have these guys been hiding lately?
Well they live out in the country, so I assume they’re doing country things like miling the cows, collecting money from the EU, whinging, and selling off their fields for one-off haciendas
trying to rebuild the wall around the pale i hope.
ar maybe trying to dig the rest of the tunnel around it so it can be floated back to britainFin those resilient D6 residents are doing it for themselves see [url=http://www.daft.ie/searchsale.daft?daftID=d5a52613f7a740e9d17214a9fdd8313d&search=Search+%BB&s[cc_id]=ct1&s[a_id][0]=pc6&s[mnb]=&s[mxb]=&s[mnp]=&s[mxp]=&s[pt_id]=&s[search_type]=area&s[refreshmap]=1&limit=10&search_type=sale&id=80240]Terenure[/url]
You mean you can tolerate looking at the same bathroom every day of the week?!
And here was me thinking I was slumming it with one for every slash.How the lower half live indeed – you’ve certainly opened my eyes Stephen.
@FIN wrote:
trying to rebuild the wall around the pale i hope.
ar maybe trying to dig the rest of the tunnel around it so it can be floated back to britainYou mean no-one explained to them that someone actually has to pay tax to keep their lifestyles going?
i know. it’s terrible i pay tax for…
m50, tunnel,luas,spike,etc,etc,etc,etcwe have all been through this before so i won’t go on.
Fin
No-one has raised the costs of Galway or Sligo related projects of which the benefits of are equally specific to the location but are done in the interests of civic amenity.
Are you saying that Cork taxpayers should complain about Eyre Square?
@Thomond Park wrote:
No-one has raised the costs of Galway or Sligo related projects of which the benefits of are equally specific to the location but are done in the interests of civic amenity.
Are you saying that Cork taxpayers should complain about Eyre Square?
That’s a calm and reasonable way of putting it. I should just leave it there, but unfortunately I’m not in a calm mood. @FIN wrote:
i know. it’s terrible i pay tax for…
m50, tunnel,luas,spike,etc,etc,etc,etcwe have all been through this before so i won’t go on.
Feel free to go on all you like. But be sure to make use of the regional income figures produced by CSO. They clearly show (page 13 of this attachment) that Western region households pay €1,093 million in tax, but receive €1,318 in social transfers. So you can be quite confident that any tax you pay stays local, along with an extra €225 million net in subsidies.
On the other hand, Dublin households pay €5,474 in tax and receive €3,939 in social transfers, making a net contribution of €1.5 billion available to the national finances.
If you wonder who might benefit from that, you might consider the generous provision of public services in the West described by the Western Development Commission.
• A higher share of young people go to college than anywhere else in the country
• 56% of all 17-18 year olds in Galway and 55% in Mayo and Sligo go to college — compared with 44% nationally
Children also start out on the right foot as primary schools in the West generally have smaller class sizes.
Average pupil-teacher ratios in primary schools are considerably lower than in Dublin and surrounding counties e.g. an average of about 17 pupils per teacher in Mayo compared with 22 pupils in Kildare.What’s bizarre is not just that Westerners seem to find it physically impossible to recognise the plain fact that they are subsidised by the East. They actually try to reverse reality by pretending that they make a contribution to national finances. Whatever facilities Dublin has, including those providing national services, have been largely paid for by its own residents.
that’s a nice stat. we go to college more. what is your point there? i can only assume that you are saying that we are more intelligent. lower class sizes…it may be very true because there isn’t that big a population here. during the dark years they emigrated or moved to dublin.you have probably parents who are from the country.you should see the schools though. i do. i work here and do a lot of work trying to fix them up and make them at least bearable. most places are falling down around the kids because there isn’t the population to make it viable to either improve the existing to a good level or replace them.
there is nothing here. our children have to get educated and go to college to get anywhere in life. and basically leave the region. the reason we pay less is because there is less people here. we have less services so we pay less services charges. there are less jobs so we pay less tax. this is nothing about having cork people pay for eyre square. it is the sheer arogance to think that jackeens pay for the lifestyle we have outside the pale.
our sities (and i speak for every city outside the pale ) has no public train system and dublin has two. there is a motorway between cork and dublin. and why shouldn’t there be. cork is the second largest city we have. there is not motorway between galway and dublin and when they will finally have one we will have to pay tolls. why is this? because throughout the years all the european money has gone to improving the road network around the pale. i am not saying this is a bad thing as it is the capital and has the biggest population but don’t tell me we are better off.
you arguments are based on that you think that we are all sponging off the tax payer. i am not a farmer, my family don’t have land. it is true that farmers are getting paid to do nothing with their lands and can then sell sites off but why not. farming in ireland is dying. it used to be our chief occupation but it is now not viable for ordinary farmers to make a living. their family’s spend generations since the land grap of ’22 working the land so why not in the times of pleanty make money on it. this is the thing. IT’S THEIR LAND. they can do with it what they want. if they want to put up houses for their children on it then so be it. ( i have heard twice last week farmers getting permission for their 3/4 year old children ) they pay service charges for it. they pay their way. not as much as others i admit but they don’t get the same service.( thomond park : i don’t use patrick street in cork. that argument is utter nonsense just like your arguments in a previous thread )
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