Galway City Council can’t win with ‘for the birds’ complainers!

Bradley Bytes – a sort of political column with Dara Bradley

Galway City Council gets blamed for everything.

Nothing happens in Galway that doesn’t annoy some crank somewhere who’ll apportion blame to City Hall, whether the local authority is at fault or not.

Staff at College Road are used to it by now. But one complainant took the biscuit with a recent gripe.

A picnicker in Eyre Square, whose sandwich was snatched by an over-zealous seagull, was incensed by the avian act of aggression and called a pest control company, presumably to have it exterminated.

The telephonist for the company suggested this person call City Hall instead, because the bird’s attack occurred in a public place.

And that’s exactly what happened – Galway City Council received a complaint over the phone that a seagull had snatched someone’s sandwich.

“Apparently that’s our fault now, too,” snorted one city official.

What next, compensation for swimmers suffering jellyfish stings in Salthill? A European Court of Human Rights case against the Chief Executive because it rains too much?
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