Baby Blueshirts are on a different busking Planet

Bradley Bytes – A Sort of Political Column with Dara Bradley 

Travel guide Lonely Planet’s naming of Galway as the 4th best city in the world to visit in 2020, has been celebrated like a World Cup final victory by many of our esteemed elected members at City Hall.
But the irony of Lonely Planet alluding several times to busking as being one of the city’s main attractions, won’t be lost on the majority of councillors who voted to restrict busking through prohibitive bylaws that will come into effect in January.
Fine Gaelers, Clodagh Higgins and Eddie Hoare, may be little more than a wet week on the City Council, but they’ve acquired necks as tough as a jockey’s nether regions.
At least the FFers and PDs (sorry, Independents) who voted through the busking byelaws had the good grace not to boast online about Lonely Planet. Well, not too much.
The other pair Clodagh and Eddie, though, were gushing about it in their social media postings, perhaps missing the point that it was their two votes in favour of the bylaws that will next year curtail the very activity, busking, which so impressed Lonely Planet.

*For more Bradley Bytes see this week’s Galway City Tribune