Seriously, is this what people watch on telly?
Pretty much all of that looks awful. Sorry now, lads, but it does.
Except for Alma’s Not Normal, which is on my To Watch When You Start Watching Telly Again list.
I am impressed with The Internet People for making it so easy to cast things to the TV - and one on a network I don’t run.
Might even encourage me to own one again.
Might. I’m not that bothered.
I did turn on the telly, though. That seems like a lot of telly.
I haven’t seen any telly since 2022 and have been thinking about getting one again like a normal person.
In the end, I just cast YouTube to the telly (my first time doing that) because, y’know, there’s never anything on the telly.
This hotel room has too many beds for one person.
I’m not fancy, but will always gratefully take a free upgrade.
The upgrade seems to be extra beds.
I don’t have the time or energy or inclination to run an orgy. Which would just require one bed anyway.
I’ll just use the one bed, I guess.
(soooo many typos in this thread. I also promise you all that I can spell the word “spatial”)
Anyway, thanks for following along.
I'm out.
Come back for the properly-scheduled meeting next month.
Bye now.
I'm going to assume that this means the s139 motion will be approved (note: killing gets easier after the first time, I gather), assuming the mayor doesn't completely capitulate.
Pasing a s139 motion is a big nuke: y'all might come to regret that in future years when your person is in charge.
Lads, I have been watching this stuff since 3pm today and I have other things to be doing.
ON any other Monday, I'd happily give it eight hours, but this is as far as I'm going to go.
It's very obvious that a big majority of councillors are in favour of stopping the Boro Field build.
Secas E also highlights the importance of public consultation early, and that this should be done long before councillors consider a section 139 (AGAIN, THIS IS THE NUCLEAR OPTION, WHICH IS WHY I'M IN DUBLIN)
Elena Secas says the mayor's presentation was great for the concept he wanted to deliver, but his uncertainty about whether this decision is the right one should be overriddden by councillors who are sure it's not.
Wants him to consider another pilot site.
John Sheahan (think it's John SHeahan) says that they didn't have a crystal ball in 2022 when they passed the city & county plan.
He's impressed with the lack of jibing, presumably not having noticed the jibing.
I'm not listening to another eight councillors btw.
Priomh-Wotsit criticises the mayor, saying "everything you say is that it's someone else's fault... it's <this person>'s fault or <that person>'s fault".
We're mere minutes away from the traditional COuncil Meeting Two Minutes Of Hate
The end part of the earlier meeting (I didn't bother typing any of it) had a motion begging a county plan modification to allow ALdi or Lidl in Abbeyfeale, lest they be spooked and wander off to another town, so you'd think the councillors might get this very quickly.
Probably not :)
... as he suggests that if there are going to be (more) changes to the masterplan that they need to thrash them out now as repeated changes will spook investors.
"Just eight more councillors" says the Priomh-Wotsit.
Jesus H Christ.
They all want their little line in the paper saying the same thing as their neighbour, and almost none of them are going to get it.
The mayor suggests a workshop on the masterplan (linked above)...
FWIW, you usually don't get the consent of the local community first for almost anything in this country.
COMpletely aside, Collins M chooses now as the time he wants to come in to say that the government isn't pushing 32 square metre housing.
I suspect he spent some time googling it.
The mayor declares that this (the motion) is a premature conversation, as there's been no decision to put houses on the site as yet, that this is a planning process.
"But surely you have to get the consent of the local community first", says Kieran O'Hanlon.
Cllr O'Hanlon accuses the mayor of "twisting the whole thing sna trying to make it [our] fault for why people can't get houses".
Lookit, all I can see is that Limerick Council is one of the worst performing councils when it comes to building houses.
Seriously, though, if you watched this meeting at home and put it on double or triple speed, you'd find it entertaining.
Hate watching is a thing, isn't it?
Mayor mentions that the change in area requirements for dwellings was instigated "by your government, not by me".
"I can tell you that it isn't government policy to build in the Boro Field", calls out O'Hanlon K.
THis meeting is the fucking worrrrrrrrst
There might be knotweed, but now we'll never know, says the mayor.
"That document should be made available", insists Collins M.
I dunno: he might have missed the offer to hand it over.
But I can hear it 200km away.
The Priomh-Wotsit wants the mayor to answer.
The mayor says that the secret document is probably a presentation he was given last week and they can have it: apparently it says that it's a brownfield site and that brownfield sites are more expensive.
I remind you that many councillors are basicaly six years old.
ANYHOO
Cllr COllins M says he paid his first visit to Boro Park lately and likes it, doesn't want it lost, and mentions a secret document that supposedly says that Boro Park is not suitable for housing.
MIchael Collins opens by deploring what he sees as Cllr Leddin's "government-bashing" (not aside: they're shit at building houses too), saying "what's good for the goose is good for the gander", saying that Jan O'Sullivan was part of a government that knockedf hundreds of houses.
ANyway, at the end of all that, Cllr Leddin will be supporting the motion.
The past was prelude, it seems.
He's like activation on other sites and to get back to this one later.
That Punches Cross continuing to lie as a prebuilding site - repeatedly denied planning permission - is an appalling state of affairs, btw.
Joe Leddin says he's never opposed social housing, before taking issue with what he says is Cllr McSweeney's implication that the lack of housing builds is the fault of the mayor.
He mentions Punches Cross, which is a big hole in the ground.
Cllr O'Hanlon says that the councillors have a mandate (I dunno if this is him implying that the mayor doesn't, despite getting more votes) and that the mayor should have consulted with the local people, wanting to know if he consulted with local people (he gets differing signs from the gallery)
Kieran O'Hanlon welcomes the people in the gallery, mentioning that he knows people there but used to represent people there once upon a time and, lookit, he's in no rush, even on a Monday evening.
Mentions that the two proposers (who he calls "young girls" for some reason) have taken flak.
SHane Hickey O'Mara mentions the strong sense of community in Janesboro and wil be supporting the motion.