No southern comfort in sprawling ward
Next to where he used to cut hair, Nelly’s café has also shut its doors. But just down the road, Boylesport is announcing it is “now open at 9am, Mon-Sat”. Traditional retailing is under pressure, but the appetite for a flutter appears to be greater now in these straitened times.
Putting money on the Euro elections, however, is not top of the list. There appears to be little interest in who goes to Brussels on foot of an electoral mandate on May 23. Downtown Carrigaline is top heavy with election posters, but nearly all are for the locals, rather than the European franchise. In fact, the electoral issue that is to the fore is the splitting of the town into separate local constituencies along the line of the Owenbue river.
