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Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone.

Rural Ireland—where the grass is green and the air is so clean you could bottle it and sell it in the local supermarket, although some locals might fight tooth and nail to ensure you have nowhere to buy a bottle of said air. The village of Johnstown, Co. Kildare, is one such village, with a population of 1300 brave souls, is about to lose its last remaining shop, Jordan’s Centra, and the usual chorus of teeth gnashing and hand-wringing has begun. “What will we do?” the villagers cry. “Where will we get our bread?” they lament. Well, folks, some of you should have thought of that before you blocked every attempt to build a proper shop that would serve your needs in the first place!

The impending closure of Jordan’s Centra supermarket in Johnstown, Co Kildare, has sparked outrage among locals. Yet, this amusingly Irish irony belies the fact that some people in this same community have repeatedly opposed efforts to build a modern shop for the village, highlighting a maddening contradicti…