Mastodawn

Barriers alongside the Grand Canal in Portobello, to prevent people with nowhere else to go from pitching tents there.

@IanMoore3000 I love when government departments spend our tax money on collectively punishing us for failures in other government departments.

@karlstanley @IanMoore3000 waterways Ireland isn't a govt body, it's a cross border org

Gods, those are ugly.

Yeah they are not very attractive. They have proved controversial.

@Edelruth and expensive

Waterways Ireland said the removal of the temporary fencing was “not helpful”.

TheJournal.ie

I detest government working against those with no shelter, instead of finding them shelter.

The behavior of erecting the fences is far uglier than the fences themselves.

But, no sense in us preaching to ourselves in the choir.

And, government does what they think will get them elected, not what is right, which is the massive flaw in modern democratic governance

Good article.