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

[source] Supergrass, The Coral and Delorentos. What no Malahide bands? Like Director. But if the wind is in the right direction the sounds may be heard in Portrane where Delorentos hail from.

How will the sound travel? the same way the smell of the proposed treatment plant in Portrane will travel to Malahide, in the air. more details from www.fairshare.ie

I needed a source to prove i wasn’t hearing things. And it goes further, the Oireachtas Report script writers are auto correcting Enda Kenny’s chlorosporidum to be cryptsporidum. Yesterday I noticed that the Dail stenographers are doing the same, make a mistake and they will fix it. so the source is in real media here

How far will this airbrushing go? are there rules?

the written word is a lie. confirmed

[see also: airbrushed politics]

repeatedly the leader of Fine Gael said in yesterdays Leaders Questions in the Irish Parliament

“Chlorosporidium” when others call it Cryptosporidium
wikipedia Trivia says “Cryptosporidium infected the drinking water of Galway, Ireland in March 2007, causing many illnesses.” :::: I remember a Cryptosporidium outbreak in Scotland in 2000, may have caused a few deaths to old folk.

Chlorosporidium is a one word google whack with one result. (real google whacks needs two words in googles dictionary)

Cryptosporidium has 1.2M results in google.

more strange, while I heard Deputy Kenny say Chloro the dail record has him written up as crypto (repeatedly corrected), can I be hearing things or is the written word a lie as Johnny Lydon sang in my disclaimer.

“This morning, I met the directors of a number of aid agencies to discuss the question of clean drinking water in developing countries. On the morning the Government will launch its environmental programme, it is ironic that I raise the question of clean drinking water in one of the richest countries in the developed world.

According to the health services, the people of Galway face a health epidemic because of the contamination of their water supply. The Health Service Executive is now informing people - particularly the elderly, very young and vulnerable - that they could die from the contamination of water with cryptosporidium.

In response, the Minister for the Environment and Local Government has given a juvenile and irresponsible performance and he has hived off blame to everyone except himself. As has been pointed out on numerous occasions, there has been a €600 million underspend across the broader region. This means that places like Oughterard, Headford, Clonbur and Claregalway have completely insufficient sewerage systems.”

why are the Luas lines in Dublin not connected?

why is the Luas rail track gauge not the same as our trains track gauge?

will metro have another gauge?

Fingal has a growth rate of 22% in POP terms. Draft Census figures show 240,000 living here. We have 68% of all of Dublin’s growth.

Now when bad planning meets this kind of growth, problems are enormous and numerous. Infrastructure deficit is widespread. Traffic is gridlock, listen to national radio in the morning and listen out for the term N32:M50 roundabout which is right at the M1 slip way. morning, evening, all day, we live in the mess that is bad planning in over priced housing.

Fingal needs proper planning. And emergency action to rectify the criminal planning that went on here in the past.

a local election candidate from Fine Gael in Dublin North East (Brody Sweeney) is suggesting that people use public transport to reduce global warming. it is fine gael policy to have more PRIVATE buses on bus routes.

Also on Mr. Sweeneys website he is calling for the removal of a bus lane on the N32 as the PRIVATE licence holder for the route refuses to run a service there to the airport.

So ask for more use of public transport, support (by stealth ) the privatisation of bus services and call for the removal of bus lanes and not do anything about a private bus licence holder squatting a route they refuse to run.

put that in your contract FG. joined up thinking it is not. read what SIPTU think of FG policy.

for the record i neither support the empty bus lane, i do not support removing it, i support and fight with bus workers for the nationalisation of all routes and new safe fleets to run in these lanes, then we will have a public transport system we can use and help stop global warming, I live in Dublin North East unlike Mr. Sweeney I traveled to the airport on the A1 route when it was run, I had to go to the airport twice yesterday on business, I commute by PUBLIC transport during my business hours but not yesterday. History: the private service provider pulled the A1 bus route from Howth Junction DART to the Airport when the DART line closed for weekends in 2004 as blogged by me here. The licence for the route still exists and the service is not run anymore, this is what happens to private services, public transport is capable and correct to run at a loss on many routes, that is its function and purpose.
wtf? there is a problem with the FG website in FF (firefox for those thinking fianna fail) the prez photo of mrs & mr edna kenny keeps refreshing in ie its the only pane with #FFFFFF background (FFFFFF is not fianna fail x3)

A €140m regional treatment plant has been recommended for Portrane on North Dublin’s coastline to cater for the sewage treatment needs of South and West Dublin.

The sewage plant is proposed to have the capacity to treat the wastewater for 850,000 people. Part of the proposal involves a 15-mile (22km) “orbital sewer” to carry untreated sewage to the Portrane plant from as far away as Lucan.

The proposals are part of a €2.6bn plan which was recommended in a report called the “Greater Dublin Strategic Drainage Study”, sponsored by Fingal County Council, Dublin City Council, Dun Laoighare Rathdown County Council, South Dublin CC, Wicklow CC, Kildare CC and Meath CC.

A campaign group, called Fairshare, has been set up to oppose the monster treatment plan. http://www.fairshare.ie

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.

last night the community of Baldoyle presented its self colated needs analysis to Fingal County Council. I was at the very first meeting about the needs survey, and was one of the 577 respondents but i was not involved in any other way. well done to all concerned. The number one need seems to be INFORMATION. Baldoyle need newsletters txt etc. while we are at it, lets get Radio (broadcast) TV (Cable/IPTV/FTA) Webcasts vidcasts podcasts blogs boards and mailing lists. Yes everyone in Baldoyle are not wired (yet) and news and info from digital can trickle down to print for mass dissemination, but mobile and txt is at 100% and the community needs to take ownership of the network delivery platform. To this end I offer my time / services to the community i live in FOC.

Baldoyle Needs in (PDF format) opens with…

Information: There is no obvious community communication strategy in lace in Baldoyle. Besides the monthly newsletter distributed by the Good Shepherd Pastoral Centre there appears to be little else of significance in terms of communication activity. While a number of community facilities Save information leaflets available on the premises there is little promotion of the availability of this information and no coordinated strategy to ensure that community information points, with information about all available services, are developed or promoted. Dissemination of information is therefore achieved on an ad-hoc basis with no coherent strategy being implemented. It is unclear from the research how much money is being spent annually on providing information into the community; however, what is clear is that the current dissemination model is not reaching the intended targets and needs to be reassessed. The lack of information is consistently highlighted
throughout the research as a barrier to greater community participation and active citizenship. This issue should be addressed as an urgent priority for Baldoyle but also for Baldoyle Family Resource Service.

It is recommended that a working group be established to assess options for the development of a “Communication Strategy for Baldoyle”. This working group should comprise representatives of all the principal local service providers and facility managers. Both statutory agencies and community groups should be invited to discuss and agree a future plan. Baldoyle Family Resource Service should consider taking the lead role in establishing this working group. The working group could be supported in their task by the local senior citizens who undoubtedly possess many of the skills necessary to develop appropriate communication tools. Given the high level of awareness of corporate support for community activity evidenced in the research it may be possible to engage some local businesses in this working group. If an agreement could be reached between statutory providers and community groups with regard to their ongoing publicity and communication
activities additional resources could possibly be secured from local businesses to fund the development and production of a fortnightly or monthly publication.

Key targets for the Communications Working Group should be to:

Develop a communication strategy for Baldoyle
Agree pivotal community information sites
Examine possible mass communication tools
Newsletter
Community Notice Boards
Text Message
Secure funding for a 12 month pilot communication plan