Friday, May 23, 2008

05.04.08 – A victory for common sense

I know some of you have been following my blogs about the situation at The Cliffs of Moher and our protest last year regarding parking charges. I ‘am delighted to report that an acceptable compromise has been reached which now means there will be a one euro per head facilities charge payable to Cliffs of Moher staff on arrival. This allows us to use the new coach parking facilities which offer our customers a safe and convenient parking facility. I’am personally delighted that this has happened but I do wonder if this could not have been done this time last year if Clare County Council had negotiated with us rather than threatening and intimidating us by issuing Parking tickets and photographing us, all of which when combined with lost revenue must have cost an enormous amount of tax payers money.

I will not dwell on the negative aspects of this story but I must thank all the operators that supported the action and brought about the change – thanks and congratulations to you all. For those that did not support our action and continued to pay the exorbitant charges all I can say is I hope you enjoy the rewards that our action has given you!
So we look forward to working with the County Council to promote this superb facility and whilst we do not bear grudges the wounds that last year inflicted will be slow to heel however we are determined to make this work.

In conclusion I now promise you all part 2 of my history but events have rather overtaken my literary endeavors.

We have also had a lot to contend with on a personal level as sadly Christine’s brother Michael was taken from us far too soon in March and so my thoughts are still with her and her Mother at this difficult time.

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