Status Updates From Cross (Jack Taylor, #6)

"We don't want you in our town, we have enough garbage as it is. How do you think we're going to win the tidy-towns competition?'"

"My father would have turned in his grave to know the day had come when we paid for water on an island surrounded by the bloody stuff and lashed by rain most days of the year."

I actually heard one of my Galway (late, I'm afraid) friends saying exact words; must be one of those Irish things.