Recession, what recession?

[dhaslam]

The building industry is alive and well in Mayo

http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14219:anglo-avengers-achill-antics&catid=23:news&Itemid=46

[wookey]

Hmm, full marks for chuztpah. I wonder if he'll get retrospective permission like the shark guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Headington_Shark (Now much-loved, but absolutely zero chance of getting permission if he'd gone through official channels). This edifice may be in the same class (hard to tell from the pics how much artistic merit has, and I know nothing of the location).

Of course the shark was on the guy's property - this is common land, which is a rather different proposition.

[dhaslam]

I think it is going to  become a symbol of rebellion against  over officious  local authorities and general lack of  resonsibility by  people in charge of the economy.  For example recently, despite the recession,   the local authorities are threatening to visit  all the septic tanks in the countryside and if they are not up to scratch  they will have to be replaced by  mechanised systems that  cost  something like €7000 to install.       

As a protest it is on a massive scale, there must have been cooperation  from  many other connstruction people to get it up so quickly.   It   may even become a tourist attraction in years to come.

[martin]

Perhaps that was the real motivation for the building of Stonehenge - revolt against jobsworths!

[biff]

during the tiger,the councils built offices in different towns all over donegal.origionally ,lifford was the centre of administeration but then they built offices in donegal,letterkenny, dungloe and all over the shop,great big fancy glass efforts,with massive automatic doors etc,and each visit from the public joe sends the heat clean out of the building and into the bog,,a lot of these modern buildings would be practically impossible to bring up to insulation standard,they are just great big stupid glass barns,built by bean counters who had friendly whacky architects as neighbours.
         but now they get very few customers and its strange to visit these places,,very orwellian,,,
       you see they cannot just serve you and send you home happy,,oh no,,they have to send your paperwork around the whole department so that everyone gets a little bite of it and waste more time trying to keep their jobs going.it is quite sad,,if we had kept a rein on our whacky architects and told them to think renewable energy,then perhaps we might have something left over from the tiger that could sustain us through the bad times but unfortunatly we are left with the pick of the clown,s efforts.
                                                                                                  biff