Thursday, July 13, 2006

More from that newspaper

Millionaires queue for water
Some of the richest people in Munster have been without water for almost two weeks and are now queuing to collect water in plastic buckets from a milk truck

What has the world come to


Balloons to launch Sixmilebridge festival


Picnic atmosphere prevails in tailback
Despite the frustrations, it was a fine morning and as the delay began to tick past 30 minutes and then into 45 and beyond, drivers started to climb out of their cars to chat. The few Cork bound vehicles that were managing to get through the stop/go system slowed down every few yards to pass on the news to the lengthy tailback. “It’s just road works.” they called, “Nothing else.”
“Breast feeding the shovels again?” quipped back a delayed Limerick truck driver.
“We should have brought our sandwiches” answered another.
But indeed a picnic atmosphere did prevail as a sense of camaraderie developed amongst the stranded and a “the country is going to the dogs” conversation gathered momentum.
Approximately 40 passengers aboard a Bus Eireann bus traveling from Cork to Galway declared themselves “furious” and “very annoyed.” Agreeing that the schedule was now “gone out the window”, driver Pat Callanan said that had he known he could have taken a different route.
Extremely annoyed was a truck driver from Clonlara who said he now had no idea what time he would get home that evening
Mrs Daly said; “At first I thought it was an accident and I wouldn’t mind that. You’d say to yourself that people are hurt, and are being helped. But to find out it’s just roadworks.

Father fined for spin on child’s quad bike
A father who took a late night spin on his son’s electronic mini quad-bike on a public road was charged with driving without insurance or a driving license.
Garda: “He told me that I was a f**king clown and that he was going to get a proper car and ram ye f**king dirty pigs off the road”
He also stated that he was going to England and didn’t “give a f**k what the judge was going to do to him.
Judge Tom O’ Donnell said that it is quite clear that “a garda in uniform is like a red rag to a bull for your client”

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