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THERE WAS GOOD news for the small Carlow village of Tinryland this week, after it was announced that its park would reopen after being forced to close its gates last month.
A quote for an insurance premium that was quadruple the previous year’s cost had spelled trouble for those who run the park but they said they will continue to fundraise to ensure such a situation doesn’t happen again.
Local councillor Jim Deane, who’s also a voluntary director at Tinryland Park, told TheJournal.ie in December that “tireless work” was going on to try to reopen it.
“We’re doing our best, but it’s very stressful,” he said. “There are three voluntary directors aside from myself.
We are concentrating on the park, but we should be concentrating on our family at Christmas. People come to this park from everywhere. We’ve only a small village and it’s a shame if we lost this great thing.
Deane said the local community had fundraised to create the park in the first place, opening in 2012, with everyone “taking money from [their] pockets”.
He also described the park as a “lovely facility” and said people come from all around to visit. It is used often by the local national school, and has memorials dedicated to some of those from the area who have died.
The park reopened yesterday after closing in mid-December.
“The directors and I would like to sincerely thank everyone in the local community and further afield for their best wishes and support throughout this difficult period,” he said.
Despite the good news that our park is reopening, it has shone a light on the issue of outrageous hikes in insurance premiums that many small communities face in relation to their amenities.
Going forward myself and the three other voluntary/non-paid directors will have to work hard to fundraise to continue to meet our insurance obligations and keep our wonderful park open for all to enjoy.
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Well thats got to be the strangest gathering of 2023……
@Dave Hammond: Luma Plex fake account.
@Dave Hammond: best ever, stomach hurts. Love it.
@Dave Hammond: well , identity theft is seemingly your thing Mr Hammond …it is still theft.
@fakeDave Hammond: please keep posting.
Zelensky and Greta, two good actors
@Burn Turf: slow cĺap
@Paul Furey: What’s your take on Putin?
@Burn Turf: These two are Real actors and this play never gets old.
Eamon McCann wrote recently how Robinson refused to meet the Bloody Sunday families while, at the same time, she was campaigning for “social justice” abroad.
That little anecdote tells us all we need to know about this woman.
@John Mackey: She’s a hypocrite
Woke gathering…
I’m sure the frightened citizens of Ukraine and the soldiers fighting to stay alive are delighted to hear this. Obviously their carbon footprint will be foremost in their minds right now…
@Dave Hammond: That is untrue, Luma Plex.
Russian nazis blew up the dam, and the nordstream pipeline.
@Dave Hammond: You are Luma Plex. The psychopathic personalily is obvious.
@A D: that’s fake Dave Hammond for sure / I should know ;)
@Brendan O’Brien: yeah it’s gone shockingly bad / when I saw somebody using profile pic and name I sorta hoped they might be intelligent and funny and I thought maybe I could even enjoy their posts / but of course shocker of the century thel-
Who cares ? Greta trashberg shouldn’t use this to make ecology’s publicity.
@EU is not bad: Let’s face it. One day Greta Thunderpants will be a powerful political figure, maybe EC President or whatever. One day she will tell your children what to do.
Maybe Greta should visit Putin and hopefully bore him to death…literally?!
@Paul Shepherd: that’s fake Dave Hammond profile just being moronic
@Dave Hammond: That is ‘Luma Plex’.
Note the 10y beside the genuine account.
@Dave Hammond: not annoying , but identity theft is still theft ….and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
@Dave Hammond: and novichok!
@Honey Badger: Another fake account. The genuine Honey Badger does not have the image.
My God, what a collection, all in the one room.
Every time an article about the environment is published, we see the classic “questions”. I’ll answer a few of them for the laugh.
1. “China emit way more emissions than Ireland, why should we do anything” – obvs, they have a population of 1.4 billion. Should we do absolutely nothing to mind Irish ecology and animals/plants just because other countries have bigger statistics?
2. “Greta should go back to school”. Do you know what a strike is?
3. “WEF Liberal agenda”. The WEF is capitalist, neoliberal greenwashing. If you hate the WEF, you have more in common with socialists that you think.
4. It is about protecting wildlife, ancient biodiversity sites that have flourished over thousands of years. Don’t call yourself a “patriot” if you don’t care about protecting our landscape.
@Sylvia Power: Your basically arguing with an imagined person in your head.
@JedBartlett: literally go back and look at every comments section of every climate related article here. The only thing I missed was people commenting “WOKE” and expecting a round of applause. No engagement with policy whatsoever
@Sylvia Power: Wow, that’s some straw man you’ve built there.
@Sylvia Power: You support her, I bet you’ve had at least one flight this year.
@Popcorn Sutton: omg you are insane
@Popcorn Sutton: literally when did I mention fungi or frogs
@Dave Hammond: I’m not vegan what are you talking about? I’m literally saying Ireland should mind our natural biodiversity?
@Dave Hammond: Great contribution to research and data there, the WEF might recruit you for a job seeing as you’re so good at deflecting criticism
@John Mackey: Yeah I have, I firmly believe that it’s possible for people to travel by air but also hold big energy corporations to account. Again, you might want to stop analysing the actions of working people and start criticising big companies.
@Sylvia Power: You’re a wee bit of a hypocrite, Sylvie.
@Sylvia Power: You’re wasting your time arguing with these half-witted conspiracy theorists.
@Sylvia Power: Yes, but they are greedy and short sighted. We’ll wipe ourselves out soon, it will benefit planet hopefully and things may go back to normal long after human species is gone?
Meeting with these two???
The poor man must be desperate,
@Ned: “Poor man”? Richest comedian in the world.
She’s so brave, “cough” Slava Greta, ya big Fake.
I’ll sleep well tonight knowing how this triggers some people
@Louis Jacob: Weird the things people will pleasure themselves to. All in your head, son.
@Louis Jacob: Me too.
That counter offensive is in the mud.
Get the celebrities in!
(meanwhile thousands of people die to keep this stupid war going)
@Dave Hammond:
@Dave Hammond:
Exactly.
The Wagner “coup” which lasted half an hour was the US/NATO plan B when the counter offensive failed, as they knew it would.
They don’t care about Ukrainian lives lost in the offensive, they knew it had no hope of succeeding but their priority is to keep the $$$ flowing into the US/UK Military Industrial Complex, not Ukrainian lives.
Both use washing machines.
@Dave Hammond: they say 90% of US bills have traces of cocaine…..
it is time for peace!
It was a pleasure to read comments tonight. What a fun!
@Sylvia Power: Spot on.
Don’t mind Dave. He shares his odd thoughts but remains angry at himself for having them in the first place. He’s to be pitied.
@honey badger: You forgot to include your Stephen Bandera ‘Slava’ quote.
I haven’t taken the time to read the article as it’s very late ,but the photo is of the upper lake Killarney as see from the south, from ladies view.
Need to send green energy tanks and silencer weapons so as not to traumatize the wildlife during the war.
Did you ever hear such rubbish
As if Ukrainians have not suffered enough. Now they must endure these two windbags
@Dave Hammond: What inspired your idea at the top of the comments? It’s very odd.
Can someone get on to Vouge Williams to sort all this out.
Pathetic that they would use war where people die to their own ends
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