It was purely by chance tonight that, taking a quiet evening stroll before retiring to the drawing room for some Horlicks and hard drugs, GG noticed some new additions to our childhood lane…
The arrival of one mobile home at the Three Trout River end of Blackberry Lane late last year had, unsurprisingly, caused all sorts of ructions in the village, as the wise and righteous Wicklow County Council announced plans to once again plonk a social housing scheme on this local beauty spot.
The arrival of one mobile home at the Three Trout River end of Blackberry Lane late last year had, unsurprisingly, caused all sorts ofNow that ruction might just be going up to 11.
That the location has proven far from ideal in more ways than one hardly needs to be restated – WCC learnt the hard way that sewage tanks float in flood plains – but there’s a strong belief among Delgany residents that the council’s attempts to press ahead with the once-abandoned social housing scheme has been driven more by spite than sense.
And now, hey, there is a further twist to the tale, as two more mobile homes have arrived, unannounced and, most likely, uninvited tonight.
They certainly caught us by surprise.
Whatever about the great divide that the travelling community can provoke in the wider community – and the family who have settled into the wasteland beside the Park & Ride seem to have been happily left to their own devices – Wicklow County Council will have to go find their thinking caps, wherever they may be, and put them back on. Pronto.