Blarney Stone owner bans St. Patrick’s Day parade from local village square

You are not allowed to take a photo of anyone kissing the blarney stone,you are photographed automatically and can buy it for 10 euros what a rip off a good mate for bertie ahern the place should be pulled down its a dnger to people of Ireland

AM I READING RIGHT. GET HIM THE HELL OUT OF THE COUNTRY

The man needs to be told that he is on stolen property. The people need to take back what is theirs.

All lands owned by the old Anglo ruling class, should have been appropriated by the Free State in 1922. It wasn't, and we have to live with the consequences. Colthurst and his ilk, are still 'Lording it'over the Irish to this day.It has suited successive Irish governments to maintain the status quo.

But will the local people do as they are told by some tatty ponse or will they go against the grain in their own town. If they toe this blokes line then they are worst then him, COWARDS!!!

(ahem) hermitTalker, dear, by "non-US citizen's son" would you be meaning our best-ever president, Mr. Barack O'Bama? He's as American as apple pie by way of his mother. Nobody else would ever have been so crudely challenged about legitimacy of office - but he's a black man and Democrat to boot. In my book he deserves as much respect as the sainted Michael Collins, and I don't say that about anybody. As for the news story in particular, I'd throw the English invaders out by any means they required, and God Bless Gerry Adams all the way. The latter gentleman predicts a border vote soon, I see. He'd make a great leader of a United Ireland.

Return the stolen land to the rightful owners.The biggest mistake since the treaty was the return of Irish lands stolen by the British establishment to the Irish state. Captain Colthurst died in 1966 the fiftieth anniversary of the Skeffington murder and the Easter Rebellion.

Lest we forget. Was it an ancestor of Sir Charles, Captain J.C. Bowen-Colthurst of Cork, with a similar anti-Irish outlook? But so much more lethal. In 1916 during the Rising, he ordered the death by firing squad of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and two other journalists, all three victims non-combatants. Capt. Colthurst was tried by court martial (he pled not guilty by reason of insanity) and acquitted. He was hospitalized in western Canada for treatment. Years later he was released. He received a military pension, till his death from natural causes, all the while hiding from IRA gunmen seeking retribution.

I've been to Blarney Castle several yra ago. He obviously does not keep up the place. It was a sad sight & the people who worked there were obviously unhappy. One of them told us that several of them have peed on the stone that makes Colthurst money. If he's really worried about liablity, he needs to repair the old castle & clean that stone!! I went back 2 yrs ago with my sons who were 27 & 29. Neither of them wanted to go up there. They couldn't believe how nasty the place was! By contrast the town is lovely & the people are lovely. BOYCOTT the dangerously unkempt castle & SUPPORT the lovely little town. PS does Colthurst maintain the square? Does the local government have the powers of eminint domain? What is good for the greater good of the people & to be put to use by the people, can be bought at a fair price whether the ancestral rights owner wants to sell or not!

Are we sure this isn't more 'Blarney'? And if not I'm quite sure Colthurst's head would look good on a spike overlooking the surrounding countryside from the castle parapet.

Time to end aristocratic inheritance.

From what is reported, I can certainly understand a fear of liability over a St. Patrick's Day parade. However, I am curious as to what ancestral ownership means. It's always hard to side with the landowner, but in this dispute wouldn't it be simple for the council to put up the liability insurance? Finally, how many communities with significant parades have liability insurance?

Well, NOW we have an actual modern-day example of why so many of our ancestors chose to emmigrate from the "old country" and come to a place where landloards don't own your fricking town square. At least in the USA only our elected officials can ban us from using the public square and we can always vote them out. The Irish still aven't gotten ride of that old "Landlord" mentality those English invaders brought with them. Were this guy's ancestors native Irish or English usurpers? I have always wanted to visit Ireland. But if I go, this is one Irish-American who will not spend a single penny to see the Blarney Stone or the castle of this pompous Charles Colthurst.

Perhaps he feared they might trample on his POT......of Gold of course. One never knows with invading colonists. See what happened in the USA when a non-US citizen's son got into high office.

If a picket was put on his Blarney castle to stop visitors paying him money to kiss a stone, then perhaps his attitude might be somewhat adjusted.