IT was a case of curtain your enthusiasm for Fine Gael councillor Stephen Keary at the mention of adult shops in County Hall last week.
Maybe I have lived a very sheltered life, but some people, it was suggested at an Economic Development Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) meeting, might need to pull themselves together when it comes to curtains and blinds.
Drapery stores are the new sex shops, you heard it here first, staying hung and humble is the name of the game.
During a discussion on the Vacant Business Premises Rates Incentive Scheme, things took a saucy turn when councillors were given a list of businesses not eligible for the scheme. These included tattoo parlours, tanning studios, private members clubs, and you guessed it, adult shops.
“What’s your definition of an adult shop?” Cllr Keary asked the Council executive.
“I’d have to come back to you on that. I suppose sex shops or something to that effect,” Mr Troy, not a man to fold under pressure, replied with pure mortification.
“You could define a drapery shop as an adult shop,” Cllr Keary then suggested before calling on the Council to get its definitions right.
I tell you lads, if we’re defining draperies as sex shops then it’s curtains for all of us.
In another non-story from the boys out in West Limerick, Adare Garda Station is not closing. I repeat, Adare Garda Station is not closing. Despite rumours, speculation, tittle-tattle, the station is not closing, regardless of what the dogs on the street are telling you.
“We’re going into one of the biggest sporting events in the world in the next year and a half and now there’s discussions that the Garda station in Adare could be closed in advance of it. We need to know answers,” Cllr Adam Teskey (FG) declared at the monthly Adare-Rathkeale district meeting.
Adare woman Cllr Bridie Collins was not impressed.
“There’s been no indication officially that the station is closing. Can we wait until we know the facts? We’re talking about rumours. You’ve already got the headline, can we move on from this?” she insisted.
In fact, Cllr Ger Ward revealed there are plans afoot to refusbish the station before the Ryder Cup.
As the old saying goes: “Rumour does not always err: it sometimes even elects a man.”
And again, Adare Garda Station is not closing. It’s just getting a new pair of curtains.
– Local Democracy Reporting Scheme