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@rumpelstiltskin wrote:
It’s in the power of Dublin City Council to restrict the opening hours of fast food restaurants on O’Connell St., to force them to close at, say, 7pm.
Could you quote the government Act or regulation that gives Dublin City council this power?
rumpelstiltskin and yixian:
It doesn’t matter HOW high the turnout is and WHAT support the mayor has from the councillors, if an elected mayor tried to do things like banning pre-existing fast food restaurants and Spars from O’Connell street he will get a bloody nose from the Supreme Court before you can say “Rumpelstiltskin”.
Go and read Article 40.3.2 of the Irish Constitution before ye post any more, lads (it is the one on property rights).
And before you start getting huffy with me, I do not like it either, but I am guessing that most FF and FG backbenchers do, so i cannot see it being changed this side of the Revolution. :rolleyes:
Impressive promises from the Greens, but I have to admit I am skeptical.
Wasn’t that long go that they were promising more buses for Dublin- and we saw how that turned out.
Think Burke is over-stating the problem cause by the horse-fair.
I lived around that area for a few years, and it was not a huge problem (one saturday a fortnight I think).
Other than the horse manure deposited it was not really a problem…in fact it was one of the few days you had any life in the area – there were tourists taking photographs, etc.
There was a bit of a skanger element of hangers-on, but it was not that bad..I didn’t feel threatened anyway- there was always plenty of coppers about.
it is the sort of thing there would be loads of nostalgia about 20 years after it going.
