ABSTRACT
In recent years Ireland’s landscape has been inundated with the paraphernalia of political protest on waste incineration (Cork, Galway and Tipperary), public transport (Dublin), water pollution (Killarney, Sligo, Galway) and/or the (non-)development of rural areas (just about everywhere). On such matters, government remains implacable, convinced responsibility lies either with bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency or, that it should not be deflected in its quest to push forward the priority infrastructural projects that form the backbone to the post-Celtic tiger economy (see Taylor 2002; 2004).
