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Riotous Assembly

Have Galway City Council gone completely mad ? In an attempt to curb littering in the city, they have decided to prevent large groups of people gathering without permission, ostensibly to prevent large numbers of leaflets being handed out (and subsequently discarded, hence the litter). There are lots of reasons for dirty streets in Galway, but discarded leaflets is the least of them. Talk about using a bag of hammers to crack a nut. The Leptard has his own take on the situation.

A word of advice to the protestors who had set up a stall at the top of Shop Street last weekend. Given the week that's in it, it might not be in the best possible taste to have a guy in a balaclava, holding a shovel aloft and standing beside two coffins. The issue is not that serious.