Step back from the news of the latest (this time) fatal attack on a tourist on the Northside of Dublin’s city centre and consider the welcome that Irish Ferries gives foot-passengers arriving at Dublin Port. This will tell you of the contempt that Official Ireland feels for the carless [stet carless, not careless] and the powerless, and why the northside of the city-centre is the repeat horror-story that it has now become.
Foot passengers on the ferry arriving from France are told that because the “landbridge” is not available “today”, they must wait until all the cars have disembarked. This “landbridge” is a fiction, because the ferry’s existing gangways are incompatible with the dockside. So instead of being allowed off first – the usual procedure – foot-passengers must wait until the cars have gone, and then board a bus inside the ferry to the improvised passport/customs post ashore.
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