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Coast Guard sides with millionaire landowners
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Thursday August 26, 2004 13:28 by Jim - Free the Old Head of Kinsale Campaign
Just who does Mr. Eddie Butler represent? A representative of the Irish Coast Guard went on West Cork 103FM radio this morning and launched an attack on a long-running campaign to restore public access to the Old Head of Kinsale. Mr. Eddie Butler, who was introduced as being from the local Coast Guard, described the campaigners as "criminals" and launched a verbal assault on the people from all walks of life who merely want to enjoy the beauty of the Old Head of Kinsale. |
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Jump To Comment: 6 5 4 3 2 1he is a failed local and dail election candidate probably just looking for the oxygen of publicity in advance of his next campaign where no doubt he'll finish a lomg way short again,unlucky mr. butler,unlucky
There we are, campaiging for the right to go to the lighthouse, which is presumably something the Coast Guard need to do now and then.
It seems to come down to whether he was there as a representative of the coastguard or as a private citizen.
If he was on the programme as a representative of the coastguard then he was definitely misrepresenting that body. If he was there as a private individual then he should not have been presented as a rep of the coastguard.
So which is it?
If you removed the right of civil servants to disagree with us you also remove their right to agree with us. Incidentally this could explain why at the OHK tresspass I was on a couple of years back I saw a parked Coastguard van with 'Locals for the golf course' placards in it.
The poor mans a fool anyway this is what golf-club co-owner Patrick O'Connor thinks of him and other locals
""Don't need 'em. They don't play Old Head -- can't afford it. It wasn't built for them anyway. It's for the international market. We have an annual day for Kinsale's police and fire -- keeps 'em sweet. That's about it."
see http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=66254 for source
Ouch!
Careful now. Its better to let this precedent stand for the time being. If in the future an attempt is made to discipline a civil servant for making radical statements or actions then this example can be used.
Civil Servants should have full political rights.
Looks to me like this person should "fall on his sword". He was definitely out of order. A representative of a state organisation should be strictly neutral in such a dispute.