Whacko New Megalith Rises in Mayo
In a new take on jaw-dropping bad taste, an unhinged Irish property developer, Mr. Joe McNamara, has been building a massive concrete replication of Stonehenge on remote Achill Island in County Mayo, home to countless literary and artistic evocations of the unspoilt beautyof the country’s west coast. The affair, which consists of a 350 foot in diameter circle of 30 rectangular slabs of about 15 feet in height is a monumental celebration of antiquity with the inspiration of a modern sewage treatment plant’s perimeter.
Mr. McNamara is something of an Irish folk hero in the mind fecker mode, having run up 3.5 million in property speculation debt, yet having the temerity to drive a cement mixer into the gates of Leinster House, the seat of goverment in Dublin, bearing the gauidly red painted words, “TOXIC BANK ANGLO.”
His own filing system is peculiar. A week ago the Mayo County Council sent McNamara a letter of injunction to cease all further work on his Achill Henge but he received it while driving his tractor and continued to erect six more slabs of his mega megalith. Therefore, he has argued in court, the injunction got lost behind the gear shift and, since he was unable to read it, he was within his rights to continue work on the monstronsity and should not be spending the weekend in jail as the court ordered.
The council was adamant that there was something wrong with Stonehenge suddenly reappearing in Mayo, its solicistor saying, “We still do not know what it is.”
Mr. McNamara’s solicistor, Declan Keane, has not yet invoked the precedent of the Perpetual Irish Oddness Clause, successfully used regarding the Tipperary County Council’s recent go-ahead for a full size replica of the White House to be erected soon under the lee of the Galtee Mountains, and beside the hallowed Rock of Cashel.
Meanwhile, the government notes considerable further progress in conforming with European Union standards of accountability and sound planning.
