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Further reaction to Inish Times' big article

Posted Friday, April 13, 2007

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Moville Drinking Crackdown

The first people I asked on Friday night were fairly positive about the Inish Times article on the crackdown on drinking in Moville.

They saw it as a problem of youngsters drinking down Bath Green and leaving litter.

Not Just The Green

But on closer inspection of the article people are seeing that this is not just a ban on youngsters (or anyone else) drinking down The Green but that it is a town wide ban on drinking in the streets.

Indeed the front page photo is not of The Green at all but of the Town Square.

Not a Town of Drunks

Many people are expressing anger at what they see as a slur on the town of Moville, portraying it as a town where people are lying dead drunk on the streets and where the shore walk is clogged up with bottles and cans.

"What kind of image is being portrayed of Moville to potential visitors?" they are asking. "Why would they come here?"

Untrue

Many are saying it's not even a true image.

Said one town resident "I go out quite often at nights and I can't remember the last time I saw anybody lying in the streets drunk about the town. I'm sure it happens but it is no more than occasional and I'm also sure that it happens in most places.

"Moville is probably better than most places in that respect. To portray an image of Moville as somewhere where you are sick of seeing drunks lying in the street as Marian McDonald claims is laughable. This is not a picture of Moville that is recognisable to its residents."

Ploughing Through Bottles and Cans

There was also Marian's claim in the Inish Times that "Thousands of tourists come off the ferry and use the shore path. They're ploughing through bottles and cans".

Said one local "What an image of Moville that is being given - tourists having to wade through bottles and cans to make their way along the shore path. It's not even true. I walk along the shore path most days and this is such a gross exagerration that it is laughable. Anyone who goes along the shore regularly will know that this is not the case".

Gross Overreaction

Most people in the town accept that there is a problem with youngsters drinking in the part of The Green nearest the town but they are saying that to extend a drinking ban to the whole town instead of just The Green looks like taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut and is a gross overreaction.