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"Let's start by opening up a recent map of the republic. Have a look at the miles and miles of dotted blue lines that radiate out from Dublin. They are proposed motorways - 900km of them in total, giving Ireland the biggest roadbuilding programme in Europe. €1.2bn is sunk into new roads every single year, far more than the government spends on public transport. These are not widening schemes or road improvements but new motorways that will plough their way through field and forest, hill and dale, bringing the roar of traffic to parts of the country more used to the chatter of birdsong. "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1364782,00.html
This article in the Guardian is wonderful. I think FF should put a copy of it in their campaign literature in the 2007 election. It speaks of new motorways, shopping centres and houses everywhere. I think the word the author was searching for is 'prosperity'. It talks of mansions with carpet lawns and impeccable driveways on the roads leading into every town and village. It speaks of cranes dominating the skyline from one end of the country to the other. No wonder employment in the building industry has doubled in a decade and that Ireland now has the lowest unemployment rate virtually in the world. No socialist country was ever like this and none ever will be. God bless capitalism.
John,
Your world of mansions, carpet lawns, etc. sounds like my worst nightmare. Don't be deluded into thinking that most people in Ireland will profit. It will mostly be rich Americans finding their 'roots' who will ruin your coast line, destroy the farming industry, and occupy those big, cookie-cutter houses you dream of. The more capitalist you become, the more you search for the ever elusive American dream...the more American you will become. Strip malls, suburbs, racist, a few rich, many poor, no culture, no music, there will be nothing Irish left about your country. Take a walk around your beautiful country. If you never leave Dublin, you have no idea what you are losing. Ireland possesses a rare beauty and cultural richness and you and a few developers and business men are willing to sell it out for the pipe-dream of financial prosperity. Shame.
pg can you email editor@thedubliner.ie in the dubliner mag about them using your images