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    They've woken up and smelled the coffee.
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    Probably seemed like a good idea at the time...
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    Why on earth did they even bother breaking out the brushes and paint when it was as good as dead? And moreover why the ancient and probably uncomfortable as hell 4 wheelers?
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    Scalpers, they would be called in the match and concert ticket scene.
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    Maam Cross.
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    "Arrest me, officer!"
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    Ireland in a nutshell. All rules, rarely if ever enforced. Heaps of NLI and indeed O'Dea images all over social media. Not aware of the NLI sending out cease and desist letters or legal teams over it.
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    A great many have been removed, or more likely, stolen. Probably a long time since councils ceased bothering to maintain them, it's up to locals who might care about them now.
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    Like talk about how people say they love Irish and wanting to learn it when they have no intention of doing so. Real genuine interest is probably the "secret sauce" we lack.
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    I've always wondered about countries you wouldn't think would have an affinity with railways like the English do, having loads of restored and static old locos and railway museums. The Scandi, as mentioned, and Iberian countries come to mind. They were as poor as Ireland was at one time.
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    Never knew they had a "balloon" water tank there. Relatively rare in Ireland.
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    Strange behaviour from CIE/IE, giving with one hand and taking away with the other.
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    The wealthy and tax exiles here tend to put their spare money into making more money (property and horses being two Irish obsessions) or donating to sports of interest to them, favourites being GAA and golf.
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    Irish people will put in many, many hours unpaid labour for their local GAA club or tidy towns. Not a hope in hell they would do the same for a railway, even if it was on their doorstep.
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    Like countries with "democratic" in their names are seldom democratic!
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    These one man band operations treat their preserved fiefdom like a giant private or semi private garden railway. Unfortunately the reaper comes for us all just like the scrapman, when the project goes belly up.
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    A few of the smaller badges; the B&CDR, GS&WR and Donegal coats of arms badges are enthusiast badges, sold in gift shops/trade stands and not uniform badges as such. The cloth badges are rare enough survivors, moths and bonfires usually got them first. Uniform badges in the UK would have been manufactured in the hundreds of thousands (BR had 629,000 staff on its formation) here the numbers produced were far smaller, plus I think people here were more inclined to throw such things away, rather than hold onto them.
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    Hand hold for clambering up to access tank filler. Presume they got removed when tank removal and repairs were carried out and just shoved on in a different place. Perhaps it was less liable to get snagged on something placed on the inside?
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    Try North Cork Railways on Facebook, there's a few on there.
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    Tried out part of the Trans Pennine Trail once (former Woodhead Route) was surprised to see horse riders using it. Horses are expressly forbidden from the greenways here. It was quite mucky in some parts, a maintenance issue rather than horse by-product. But yes, people with busy lives and kids just want a plug and play venue, with easily followed signs, cafes and bike hire places.
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    There's quite a vocal cycle lobby and road running is very popular. You would be made mincemeat of if you attempted cycling, running or walking on many of the regular roads the way people drive these days, so there's that. Hiking/cross country walking is niche by comparison and hamstrung by having no "right to roam" legislation here. Greenways are seen, rightly or wrongly, as free* to use leisure facilities which bring visitors and their money to an area**. *yes I do know they cost money to build and maintain. **results may vary.
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    A source told me they were made up for the IRRS and sold as a fundraiser around the 60s.
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    The IRRS cap badge is a strange one, something someone made up themselves for working specials? Or a souvenir from the sales stall?
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    Design dates from 60s, post flying snail era, but used as staff cap badges until the break up of CIE into IR, BE and DB so could be 1980s just as well. Early ones were made by Quinn of Dublin, got a couple of Caxton of Kew badges from a staff member who probably was still in nappies in the 60s!
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    Back in GS&WR days there were railway police, I have seen a reference to a company policeman with regard to an 1870s murder case. I'm not certain if Irish railway police would have worn "custodian's helmets" as their British railway police counterparts did.
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