Man in Cherry Picker outside Leinster House

Caoimhin · **Joined:** Oct 11, 2008 **Posts:** 227

ditch dweller wrote:

Homeboy wrote:

Well it has more merit than the Spire but there again everything does.

I don't get why people hate the Spire, I think its a fantastic piece of work. And the piece of shit it replaced is better forgotten. The big problem with the spire is the bulb on top is a joke and costs a fortune to replace. It would have been better designed without the light, or at least with a gas light.

I think that light is mandatory due to aircraft.

slasher · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:39 pm

Caoimhin wrote:

ditch dweller wrote:

Homeboy wrote:

Well it has more merit than the Spire but there again everything does.

I don't get why people hate the Spire, I think its a fantastic piece of work. And the piece of shit it replaced is better forgotten. The big problem with the spire is the bulb on top is a joke and costs a fortune to replace. It would have been better designed without the light, or at least with a gas light.

I think that light is mandatory due to aircraft.

the [main] light is part of the design in any case - if it was just the Aircraft light would be much smaller and cheaper

ditch dweller · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:41 pm

Caoimhin wrote:

ditch dweller wrote:

Homeboy wrote:

Well it has more merit than the Spire but there again everything does.

I don't get why people hate the Spire, I think its a fantastic piece of work. And the piece of shit it replaced is better forgotten. The big problem with the spire is the bulb on top is a joke and costs a fortune to replace. It would have been better designed without the light, or at least with a gas light.

I think that light is mandatory due to aircraft.

I guess you're right about that but Ive noticed that on about half my visits to Dublin the light is out.

dolanbaker · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:43 pm

ditch dweller wrote:

I guess you're right about that but Ive noticed that on about half my visits to Dublin the light is out.

Should have put an optical fibre up it and placed the bulb at the bottom!

jenniem01 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:51 pm

slasher wrote:

in Durrus, Co. West Cork - not as dramatic

Love Love Love Love Love this!!!!!!!! Maybe we should make something like this for people who are caught for fraudulently claiming Social Welfare !!!

Might reduce the numbers a bit!!! Imagine!

polaris · **Joined:** May 19, 2008 **Posts:** 1075

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bre ... ing45.html

Quote:

Developer jailed over 'Achill-Henge'

Property developer Joe McNamara has been jailed until next Tuesday by a High Court judge for contempt of an order requiring him to immediately cease building a ‘Stonehenge-like structure’ which he intends as a “place of reflection” on Achill Island.

Wheels of justice move fast when you don't have the right connections.

Larry · **Joined:** Jun 28, 2008 **Posts:** 4428

How much does this Hero of the Ordinary Man owe the banks?

Ah, right Ted.

ditch dweller · **Posted:** Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:59 pm

polaris wrote:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1202/breaking45.html

Quote:

Developer jailed over 'Achill-Henge'

Property developer Joe McNamara has been jailed until next Tuesday by a High Court judge for contempt of an order requiring him to immediately cease building a ‘Stonehenge-like structure’ which he intends as a “place of reflection” on Achill Island.

Wheels of justice move fast when you don't have the right connections.

I know, like John Stewart says, "And Martha Stewart went to jail".

Blindjustice BATONEFFECT · **Posted:** Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:10 am

Larry wrote:

How much does this Hero of the Ordinary Man owe the banks?

Ah, right Ted.

How much do the banks owe the taxpayers?
He was a developer who fucked up so what, it was Lenihan, Cowen and the banks who decided to ransack the state not this guy, he is right to highlight the rot

Larry · **Joined:** Jun 28, 2008 **Posts:** 4428

Blindjustice BATONEFFECT wrote:

Larry wrote:

How much does this Hero of the Ordinary Man owe the banks?

Ah, right Ted.

How much do the banks owe the taxpayers?
He was a developer who fucked up so what, it was Lenihan, Cowen and the banks who decided to ransack the state not this guy, he is right to highlight the rot

No, sorry, I've invested way too much emotional energy in the property bubble to give any of these cunts a pass. Where was his big truck in 2005? Pouring cement into foundations in a field somewhere I'll bet you. None of these people get the whiff of a pardon from me.

Poacher turned gamekeeper · **Posted:** Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:33 am

Looks like a landing/launching pad to me...

fishfoodie · **Posted:** Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:26 pm

Larry wrote:

Blindjustice BATONEFFECT wrote:

Larry wrote:

How much does this Hero of the Ordinary Man owe the banks?

Ah, right Ted.

How much do the banks owe the taxpayers?
He was a developer who fucked up so what, it was Lenihan, Cowen and the banks who decided to ransack the state not this guy, he is right to highlight the rot

No, sorry, I've invested way too much emotional energy in the property bubble to give any of these cunts a pass. Where was his big truck in 2005? Pouring cement into foundations in a field somewhere I'll bet you. None of these people get the whiff of a pardon from me.

Yep !

- Mod edit here...let's please be very careful when describing the actions of people. -

Blindjustice BATONEFFECT · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:07 am

- Mod edit here too for repetition of above issue -

WTF

plenty of smaller developers went under and lost everything after the crash, its only the well connected that got saved

Blindjustice BATONEFFECT · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2011 2:01 am

Larry wrote:

Where was his big truck in 2005? Pouring cement into foundations in a field somewhere I'll bet you.

and what of it?? Had the banks held back on throwing our money out their windows it wouldnt have happened.
Had the regulator been awake, had the government not have thrown taxpayers money at all the subsidies
what about canny mc savvy who fed the demand, the specuvestors?

fucking hell dude

Who got worst hit?? Builders and normal developers who have no work and no future in Ireland anymore
they are most of the 15% unemployed if they are even fucking counted. Plenty of developers and small construction business owners qualify for no social welfare because they ran their own businesses.

I suppose the hardware stores around Ireland are bad bastards too. What about those who supplied his truck with the concrete he was pouring in 2005?? huh?

Go pick on the real villains and please wake the fuck up - the man was JAILED for what is essentially a civil affair not a criminal matter. The many arms of the state are working flat out to protect itself

igy · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:24 pm

Blindjustice BATONEFFECT wrote:

Go pick on the real villains and please wake the fuck up - the man was JAILED for what is essentially a civil affair not a criminal matter. The many arms of the state are working flat out to protect itself

To be fair, he wasn't jailed for an illegal building, he was jailed for telling the court he had no intention of complying with an order to prevent him continuing to build said building.
Same deal as the TV Licence people; can't pay = no jail, told judge to go fuck themselves - few nights in mountjoy

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