“Ah shur ain’t it grand” It’s about week 4 or 5 like this by now. The cones being placed there is hilarious, but perfectly sums up our Irish mentality of “Its grand”

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1. “_We can’t fix this overnight_”

2. Get on to the Dubs to pay more.

3. Is that County Galway?

4. The cones are a physical representation of “careful now!”

5. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

   Even if it’s almost certain to break imminently apparently.

6. Careful now

7. However, it’s not the ‘Irish mentality’ that it’s grand – it’s the mentality of a private company, registered in Jersey that was sold to the highest bidder and now have no respect for anyone or anything.

8. I mean, they put cones down so…

   Notions on this fella.

9. Still better than…[Balkan pothole](https://i.imgur.com/V7bFJlQ.jpg)

10. “Ah shur ain’t it grand”??

    Are you in an Irish parish doing a cultural exchange with Tennessee?

    No-one Irish talks like this, either bogman or Jackeen. Dunno _where_ you’re after getting that sentence from.

11. Watch out, Eurovision2006 will be on soon to tell ya culchies deserve it and we should all pay more than him for electricity

12. I assume locals placed the cones rather than report it?

13. My favorite is county councils putting a cone INTO a big pothole

14. “Let us know if someone dies. We’ll send out another cone”

15. So what you want is a 3rd cone?

16. The pole is bowing in homage to the modern art depiction of Madonna.

17. Sure when it falls the cones are either side of it ffs stop giving out the lad/lads who thought of that are geniuses if you ask me!!!

    Btw : where is this so I dont walk under it

18. sure as long as it gets a signal that’s the main thing

19. Ah bennetsbridge. What a lovely place

20. It’s like me when I say I’m grand lolsob

21. >ain’t it grand?

    isn’t it grand

22. Ah shure lookit

23. The weather adds to it.

    Timmy! Throw two cones there, I’ve Murphy’s on the blower, they’ve two pint bottles of Bulmers ready for us.

24. Trust me the irish “it’ll be grand” mentality will be gone in 30 years. Irish society is being so organized that I doubt the next generation will deal with such chaos.

25. They’ve even wrapped yellow tape around it… Like what more do you want. For all we know it’s spotted a fiver on the ground and will straighten out afterwards

26. Jayshus, that is grand weather yis are having back, thonder

27. I mean if it’s been 5 weeks and no further issues then is it not, by definition, grand?

28. I mean, on a technical level it is actually OK, there’s not a lot of danger there.

    The cables are more than strong enough to hold it up. The obvious concern is that if there was a storm or something it might flail about and snap the cables, but they may have done something behind the hedge to mitigate that.

    This isn’t an emergency repair. In an emergency repair, the crews can basically do whatever they want. Access land, rip out hedges, dig up holes, shut down power, whatever.

    It would be a high priority repair. Which means they have to follow the process. Not only scheduling the switch off of the lines, but scheduling the crew and the hardware, possibly getting permission from the council to obstruct the road for a day. Notifying the land owner of the intention to carry out works.

    All could easily add up to five weeks.