{"id":90390,"date":"2025-09-28T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/90390\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:22:09","slug":"def-leppard-frontmans-neighbour-rocked-by-high-decibels-emanating-from-stepaside-home-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/90390\/","title":{"rendered":"Def Leppard frontman\u2019s neighbour rocked by high decibels emanating from Stepaside home \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDo ya wanna get rocked?\u201d asks Joe Elliott<\/a> at the opening of Def Leppard<\/a>\u2019s 1992 hit Let\u2019s Get Rocked. <\/p>\n

A neighbour of the 66-year-old musician\u2019s in south Co Dublin certainly appears to be getting shaken by ongoing works at his Stepaside home. <\/p>\n

Christine Wunschel, Elliott\u2019s wife, was last month granted permission by D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to install a 4.8m-tall stone sculpture on the grounds of Stepaside House. <\/p>\n

However, a neighbour, Louise Harrison, has appealed the decision to the State\u2019s planning authority, An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la. She says her home is across the road from Elliott\u2019s and construction and frequent machinery noise from his garden is \u201cintolerable\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"AA drawing of the sculpture proposed for Stepaside House from a planning document filed with D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council <\/p>\n

\u201cAs a retired individual, I wear ear muffs in my home (from 7am to 5pm) or vacate my home to escape 5-7 men using machines in that garden six days a week, including bank holidays, so (I) drive to a car park and sit in my car to avoid their noise of between 85-130db ie akin to the noise of an aircraft taking off,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n

The appellant fears the statue could result in further noise by being converted into a water fountain given there is \u201ca surrounding deep water basin and an outstretched limb on which a water spout could be added\u201d. <\/p>\n

The appeal lists Harrison\u2019s views on an extensive history of works carried out around Stepaside House and notes her efforts to communicate with Elliott about same. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote to the owner in America, appealing for an end to the intrusive noise. His reply in 2015 stated the current project \u2018is now nearing completion, so there should be no more loud noise or dust\u2019,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cTen years later \u2013 with about 4 short breaks, noise continues daily \u2013 118.2db of machinery noise is being created as I type.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LouisLouis Partridge in The House Guinness, which debuted on Netflix this week. Photograph: Ben Blackall\/Netflix Settler of pub rows turns 70 on big week for the Guinnesses<\/p>\n

It has been a prolific period for the Guinness name, with the House of Guinness released on Netflix<\/a> this week, the fourth earl of Iveagh, Arthur Edward (Ned) Guinness, publishing a book on his family\u2019s history, and the latest edition of Guinness World Records coming out. <\/p>\n

The first edition of publication once known as the Guinness Book of Records came out 70 years ago and has its roots in Co Wexford \u2013 Castlebridge to be precise, with a sign on the way into the village marking the link. <\/p>\n

In the early 1950s, Sir Hugh Beaver, then managing director of the Guinness brewery, visited the area\u2019s North Slob as part of a shooting party. He missed a shot at a golden plover and became embroiled in a dispute about which species of game bird was the fastest. In the days before smartphones, such answers were not easily found. <\/p>\n

\"EdwardEdward (Ned) Guinness, the fourth earl of Iveagh. Photograph: Laura Hutton <\/p>\n

Beaver in 1954 recalled the fastest bird debate and had a light-bulb moment \u2013 a Guinness promotion based on the idea of settling pub arguments. He enlisted a pair of London researchers, twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, to compile a book of records and the rest, as they say, is history. The first edition topped the British bestseller list at Christmas in 1955 and tens of millions have sold since. <\/p>\n

Ned Guinness\u2019s book, Guinness: A Family Succession, is unlikely to shift similar numbers, but had a well-attended launch at Iveagh House (once owned by his family) on St Stephen\u2019s Green (also once owned by his family) in Dublin on Monday. Former taoisigh Enda Kenny and Bertie Ahern were among those in attendance, as were businessman Denis O\u2019Brien and dancer Michael Flatley. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe six 2025 Booker prize shortlisted authors: Susan Choi, Andrew Miller, Kiran Desai, Ben Markovits, Katie Kitamura and David Szalay You think Booker judges get to read only good books? Roddy Doyle has news for you<\/p>\n

And then there were six. The Booker Prize shortlist was announced this week<\/a> with a rags-to-riches journey, a globetrotting romance, a mysterious disappearance, a road trip inspired by a midlife crisis, post-second World War struggles and tumult in the life of an actor all featuring. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no Irish author, but one of our own remains centrally involved in the process. Roddy Doyle<\/a>, who won the Booker in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, is chairing the judging panel and believes the shortlisted entries are \u201call brilliantly written and they are all brilliantly human\u201d. <\/p>\n

His gig sounds like a nice way to pass some time but, speaking to the (London) Times this week, he indicated it hasn\u2019t all been sunshine and lollipops. <\/p>\n

\"RoddyRoddy Doyle: no time for the small print. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw <\/p>\n

He said the judges had wondered \u201cwhy we had been asked to read\u201d some of the 153 submitted novels that they whittled down to a long list of 13. <\/p>\n

Doyle said he signed up to be a judge to \u201cread good books\u201d and began to feel \u201ca bit low\u201d when he would encounter two bad ones in succession. He also said he was sick of small typefaces, likening one entry to \u201cthe warning you get on the back of a pack of Panadol in 17 languages\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would be reading for half an hour and realise you are on the same bloody page you were half an hour ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the end of it: the judges must revisit the shortlisted works for a third time before choosing the winner of the \u00a350,000 prize, which will be revealed on November 10th.<\/p>\n

\"SimonSimon Harris with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv last year. Photograph: EPA Harris claims triple lock getting \u2018No, nay, never\u2019 treatment<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a surprise to hear a senior politician quote The Wild Rover in the D\u00e1il, let alone during testy exchanges about the triple lock, neutrality and Ukraine war. <\/p>\n

T\u00e1naiste and Minister for Defence Simon Harris<\/a> last week faced questions on the issue, with People Before Profit\u2019s Paul Murphy<\/a> asking where the Government wanted to send Irish troops where it currently could not. <\/p>\n

Murphy said \u201cthere is a cynical campaign of misinformation\u201d by the Government around removing the triple lock (the guarantee that stops more than 12 Irish soldiers being sent into battle zones without the permission of the Government, the D\u00e1il and the United Nations) and an insistence \u201cthere is no need to worry\u201d. <\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople Before Profit\u2013Solidarity Paul Murphy TD. Photograph: Sam Boal\/Collins Photos <\/p>\n

\u201cThe T\u00e1naiste may say that we are only ever going to send troops on missions that are called peacekeeping missions,\u201d Murphy said, noting that no country ever said it was \u201cdoing something for its own imperialist reasons\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cDoes he know what Putin called his invasion of Ukraine? He said it was a peacekeeping mission.\u201d <\/p>\n

Harris said \u201cthere is an effort to be a bit mischievous here\u201d on Murphy\u2019s part, but \u201cthe idea of Ireland becoming a major military power or engaging in military adventurism\u201d was at \u201csuch a remove from the reality\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe wish to be a country that can keep itself and its people safe, has a better idea of what goes on in our sea and skies, and plays a role in peacekeeping.\u201d <\/p>\n

On the wider debate about the triple lock, he said: \u201cIf the Opposition\u2019s approach is to say: \u2018No, nay, never \u2013 we will not talk to you about it and will just vote you down\u2019, that is grand, but it is not the most constructive way to engage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDo ya wanna get rocked?\u201d asks Joe Elliott at the opening of Def Leppard\u2019s 1992 hit Let\u2019s Get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[7928,18196,58908,7927,18,117,11545,19,17,56052,58907,127,27172,58910,44,58909,2451],"class_list":{"0":"post-90390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-an-coimisiun-pleanala","9":"tag-booker-prize","10":"tag-def-leppard","11":"tag-dun-laoghaire-rathdown-county-council","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-guinness","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-irish-neutrality","18":"tag-joe-elliott","19":"tag-netflix","20":"tag-paul-murphy","21":"tag-roddy-doyle","22":"tag-simon-harris","23":"tag-stepaside","24":"tag-wexford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}