Airbnb has targeted council employees with online adverts. Does that count as lobbying?
“Just because it’s digital, and not over coffee, doesn’t mean it’s not,” says Niamh Kirk, an associate professor at the University of Limerick.
They have blocked the road to force change before, and are prepared to do it again, says Chapelizod Tidy Towns chair Peter Kavanagh.
Seven of the Mulberry Cottages are on the derelict sites register, and there’s been little progress towards bringing them back into use.
So they can go play with their families and friends without adding to “the traffic and our own carbon footprint”, says Róisín Walsh.