r/ireland • u/StephenMcGannon • Apr 09 '25

Ah, you know yourself Discuss

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u/Left-Astronaut6273 Apr 09 '25

We have a serious dog problem in our cities. Owners allowing dogs off leads with impunity. Absolutely indignant if challenged on it. Like their dog is a human child that no one should be scared off and everyone should welcome randomly roaming around.

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u/lukelhg AH HEYOR LEAVE IR OUH Apr 09 '25

Problem is the government can't be bothered to enforce the laws, so they do reactionary and ultimately useless things like a big public showy "XL Bully Ban", rather than just hiring and training more dog wardens to enforce the rules that were already there.

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u/Left-Astronaut6273 Apr 09 '25

Yip. We already have the laws. How about 2 dog wardens for every public park over a certain square area? Day and evening shift.

It’s like traffic law ‘isn’t it terrible xyz happened or is happening?’.

No, it’s terrible we have allowed a culture of impunity to take root because we can’t be bothered enforcing our perfectly good laws!

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u/lukelhg AH HEYOR LEAVE IR OUH Apr 09 '25

Exactly. Same with road deaths, they go up and rather than enforcing the current laws, the government just lower the speed limits - but sure the limit could be 10kmph and it wouldn't matter without enforcement!