This way to the pedestrianisation revolution!

Fifty years behind Norwich (and the pedestrianisation of its city centre so dear to Alan Partridge), Dun Laoghaire has taken the plunge. Well, its county council has, and we shall all follow: a large section of George's Street has been pedestrianised! 
We're all embracing our summery continental inner self and we are all happily strolling from charity shop window to charity shop window in our shorts and vests, or eating our Miami Cafe fish and chips off a plate on a rickety table rather than out of a paper bag on a street bench. 
Here you can see la Croisette de Dun Laoghaire, with Paddy tentatively walking on the road with less fear of being flattened by a speeding white Ford Transit van. But old habits die hard and he is not venturing onto the central part of the pedestrianised boulevard just yet. 

Meanwhile motorists frothing at the mouth are squeezing their SUVs into the already gridlocked Patrick Street. They are still apoplectic over the extra picturesque traffic jams resulting from the creation of the head-on-collisions-cycle-lane on the seafront. 
The anti pedestrianisation brigade is joining the ranks of the anti cycle- lane army. The former have pledged to bring pitchforks, the latter have promised to procure torches. Together their shall march on City Hall. Once they've managed to extricate themselves from the permanent traffic jam and found a grail-like parking spot that is.
It could be a while before the ousting of the councillors can take place...