caught live on community radio Near FM, john haughton is on air as Fingal County Council subbies fell the trees of Stapolin, he takes me live on air before the sig tune fades and the sound of shredding begins. Hear the MP3 below. Thanks to Near FM for the recording.
John Gormley TD Minister for Environment is rethinking the sweetie deal Dick Roche TD gave the chewing gum industry. The fact remains that chewing gum causes the chewing gum problem but having seen a pack of chewing gum discarded on the ground as litter I can’t help but agree that in order for the gum to become the pavement sticking litter we must chew it, masticate it to make it sticky. So humans who chew & drop are also to blame. They can pay more for the item by allow a tax on it or they can cop on and discard it carefully. BTW cigarette end discards are greater in number as littering offences than gum drops.
Bournemouth Council UK came up with a novel idea, chewing gum boards. Taking that one step further with the agreement of object of peoples disgust ‘the politicians’ at large; chewers could be influenced to stick their gum on the face of a cause celeb politico
While on the subject of politics 400 meters north of the old Tayto factory on the Malahide road is a Left Wing Govt. No Thanks - PD election poster - FINE THEM DCC!
Eamon Ryan’s website is a tad outa date. He is a minister now not a mere spokesperson.
Perhaps they could recycle the election posters by bye law, gum sticking prohibited for 10 days prior to election, rest of the time the boards are for gum. This is how it is done on the continent, election fly posting is sanctioned on special boards.
japan france netherlands in china its one party one poster and look at the capitalists swarm that growth problem.
first here 16/3/07 ~ irish sun editorial 16/march/2007 “like it or not, globalisation the free market and fossil fuels are the forces that will do most to deliver rising living standards for the world’s poorest”
ok so globalisation the free market = capitalism has done what for the worlds poor? created the largest divide between people and capital, or put locally can a young person get a house? no. The Sun are on a different wavelength to the rest of us. Globalisation spreads equality to the third world, the equality to be exploited like the working poor in the rest of the world. globalisation the free market has done LESS for the worlds poor than Band Aid and that was a sticking plaster. Capitalisms addiction to fossel fuel means that third world countries will find them self at war for oil with rich nations. Stick to big brother house coverage, its what your good at in the Sun, leave world climate debate and the economy to the people who know and care.
Eamon Ryan T.D., the Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources today as his first public engagement as a Government Minister, visited the charity Camara, based at North Wall Quay in Dublin 1.
The Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources have already donated 74 PCs and 141 Monitors to Camara.
Ryan arrived by car. (what no skate board?)
He said he would welcome a debate about nuclear energy in Ireland and he did not believe nuclear power would be the answer to Ireland’s future energy needs but he did believe a public debate on the issue would be helpful.
You spend hours in gridlock to return to a county other that the one you work in, one you began commuting from home 14 hours ago. Your next in line to get off the slip road and onto the regional pothole network that will take you home, its 7.45PM and you haven’t seen your kids or partner for more than 20 minutes for days.
After a hard weeks commuting its the weekend. As social services are severely underfunded the local environment has little going on.
Bertie Ahern wants you to volunteer your time to run things within your community. This is an honest gesture if you fell asleep in 1986 and suddenly woke up. I did the whole volunteer thing from 15-27 before politics took my time, There are wonderful people in every community in Ireland that volunteer, the same 2% in every community, for health care, GAA, all sports, youth clubs, meals on wheels, bingo, cake sales, ladies clubs, bridge etc.
I think the Govt. has a fecking nerve to ask the commuter belt in post Celtic Tiger Ireland to screw itself by making itself feel guilty if they do not rise to the challenge in their community of volunteering. Its a fine and noble cause but not after a 15 hour day in gridlock. On May 25th it took me 25 minutes to travel 1 mile through the town of Balbriggan at 7.45PM. localised late evening gridlock is a new feature of the satellite towns, heaping misery on the people who experience the major all day gridlock on our roads.
This is Dublin City Volunteer Week (June 1 - 7) and while I would suggest to anyone that volunteering is great and you WILL get more out than what you put in, I really have to say, this greedy capitalist system has little to offer the volunteers in terms of support, “Quality of Life”, tax breaks, funds, help, legal protection, premises, rent or insurance relief or proper training. If you do have the time, start a pressure group, lobby for the services of the state to fund what it should always have been involved with. WIN things for your community that are sustainable that wont get wiped out by extra hours in gridlock next year for the volunteer base, Either we go back to 1986 or things change, they do not remain the same. Wake up.
[bbc news] Scientists’ hopes are now pinned on one walrus to help them understand where the animals of west Greenland migrate over the summer months.
Of the eight satellite tags the BBC saw attached to walruses in April, seven now appear to have stopped working.
how much does it cost shell to buy the favour of the Govt.?
[kevin t walsh writes over on indymedia.ie] I also ask the most pertinent question ………. Why has no-one Minister, the President, the Taoiseach, the Church not congratulated this man on his Global Achievement. In any other country, Willie Corduff would be a hero but in Ireland he is vilified by a corrupt Government bought by Shell. Would Bottler Duffy and Sherlock Holmes Williams ever wake up and write about good people for a change and stop giving Gangland Scum Airways.
so well done Willie. everyone else get wise, buy the book “Our Story the Rossport 5″ by small world media, all good book shops (blah blah), and from Rossport to Howth etc etc ask those TD’s (and their people) on the doors in the next 13 nights, why are our natural resources gifted to shell for free.
Rambo Burke I hold you and Fianna Fail accountable.
At conferences I hear (and sometimes i say)
1. Don’t blog if you have nothing to say
2. If you have something to say - podcast it! © doop.ie
3. Don’t blog when drunk!
4. Don’t number bullet points (unless 1 is more important than 4)
well its nice to see blogs that ‘don’t fade away and do radiate’ (to mess with a Blondie song title) I missed this: last week Shut Sellafield blog was up 12 months! The high point for me was when Dick Roche commented on the blog! 
thanks to all my news sources that I clipped from and linked to, real hard working journos that don’t trust google news like the Guardian does! LOL. Metero, if you wanna quote me ring me! lift the phone not the story. Windscale:50 happens in October! watch this space.
“If you fashion a bomb in your kitchen,
You’re guilty of breaking the law,
But a bloody great nuclear plant is O.K.,
And plutonium processing hastens the day,
When this small little isle will be blasted away,
Nonetheless it is perfectly legal.”
(legal illegal - Ewan McColl)
Site title: Shut Sellafield
Sub title: “think about it!”
What is Sellafield?: wikipedia
Why shut it down?: read the blog - then “think about it!”
Who writes for this blog: Brian Greene
When did this blog start: 20/04/2006
