Submit and Subsidise

You have to laugh, albeit ruefully, at the brazen chutzpah of DLR County Council.  It has postponed until after the summer any decision on leashing on our beaches - despite our constructive lobbying and the massive support within the borough for liberalising the beach byelaws.  More recently it has decided to ban our attempts at fund-raising on Hyde Road on the 26th May.


Having refused us on a number of spurious bureaucratic grounds it compounds the insult by suggesting we might like to hold it in a dog pound. I quote:

• "However, if you wish to pursue the matter, we will consider your event in one the dogs off leash areas in one of our parks at Shangangh Park, Cabinteely Park, Deerpark or Marlay."

These are the very areas we are seeking to render redundant by allowing our dogs run free in designated areas.

And then it applies the coup de grace by suggesting that we pay our household charges (see below) - all the better, no doubt, to subsidise its undemocratic activities.

Household Charge - Funding Local Services

Thank you if you have paid the €100 charge.

If you have not paid, and you wish to avoid accumulating late payment fees and interest, please register and pay for your household charge without delay, on www.householdcharge.ie