For last few years Ireland has been changing rapidly and has been a European country facing the biggest investment and developing - new estates, shopping and amusement centers, roads, motorways etc. Cranes have been an inseparable part of a landscape of every town or city. In the country, silence of green meadows is disturbed by heavy machinery on the future road sites. In the hearts of quiet towns a scaffolds are appearing rapidly and finally a shopping centers made of glass, iron and stone.
Before I came to Ireland, I had downloaded some pictures of Carlow from the internet. The town in the 80ties and 90ties looks similar but not the same. I got the conclusion that this massive investment is killing the soul of Ireland, and the uncountable amount of money that has been pushed into Irish economy has two ends. The good one is the highest living standards, excellent labor market, very low unemployment rate, but I am afraid that people in charge of that don?Äôt care much about the tradition and the Ireland as a land of a great culture and tradition won?Äôt manage that.
Don?Äôt take me wrong, I am not expecting carts with donkeys on the street and old men sitting outside the pubs, a common image of Ireland. I have just got an impression that Ireland country and towns are being sliced by a developing and investment without any respect to the landscape and tradition.
I wish my impression was wrong.
Here is an example of the same place in Carlow. I cound’t find an oryginal website of that photo, but I am going to complete it as quickly as I can.
An old picture
Carlow 2006 AD.
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