College Green World Cup homecoming tomorrow - Gardai come clean!

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday June 17, 2002 14:30 by Paul Kinsella - Various paulkinsella53 at yahoo dot com 53 Lorcan Grove, Santry, Dublin 9, Eire 087 - 9748511

College Green World Cup homecoming tomorrow - Gardai come clean!

College Green World Cup homecoming tomorrow - Gardai come clean!

I am absolutely outraged and appalled but not at all surprised that the Gardai have forced the homecoming for our World Cup heroes to be moved from College Green to the Phoenix Part - More ya on 'safety' grounds. 'Safety' grounds me arse! Come on Gardai - Admit it! The real reason that the World Cup homecoming has been moved to the Phoenix Park is because of threats and pressure from the 'merchant princes' - and the other mouthpieces of capitalism such as the banks on Dame Street/College Green/Westmoreland Street and the Automobile Association (AA). They were complaining that if the World Cup homecoming were held in it's natural place, i.e. College Green that their beloved profits would fall for a few lously hours and that their beloved flash and gaudy, air polluting and global warming causing private cars would be banned from the Centre of Dublin City for a few hours. Now you can see where the Reclaim The Streets (RTS) people are coming from. Just who the hell are the streets of Dublin for? Are they for the people of Dublin - And for a living City? Or are they for the corporate, polluting, 'merchant princes', private car culture? People should really kick up a right stink over this! Already some people have begun to make a fuss over tomorrow and rightly so!