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

From outdoor

11:32-11:38am 07.03.07 - 6 mins end to end €6 euro, worth waiting for ? probably the best tunnel in the world ? no & no.

it all started in Ennis.

Results 1 - 6 of about 9 English pages for “the pompeii syndrome“. [google track 16:49 06/02/2007]

its a new book by David Rice. as I run the blog for shut sellafield i was sent an advance copy..

Synopsis [amazon]
Father Frank Kane, filming a TV series on “Great Catastrophes in History”, grows convinced that people on the verge of extinction, as in Pompeii, consciously ignore all the signs of their impending doom. In Ireland, Garda Det-Sgt Stokes keeps encountering references to a shadowy figure called Omar. A young Saudi Arabian disappears from Ennis hospital, and later his body appears in a trawler’s fishing net. In Leeds, journalist Meg Watkins is assigned to research Freshpark Nuclear Plant in Cumbria. Initially impressed, she gradually grows horrified at its safety record. Meanwhile, Sheik Aboud is secretly training terrorist pilots to fly hijacked planes into Europe’s nuclear plants, using flight simulators at his walled County Galway residence. Gradually, Stokes closes in on the sheik as he feels some catastrophe is pending. So does Fr Frank Kane, for different reasons. And Meg Watkins is convinced that terrorists are going after Freshpark. Convergence comes when both Kane and Stokes hear Meg say on a TV talk-show that terrorists could hijack a plane out of Ireland and fly it into Freshpark. But it’s all too late. Omar has been in Co Galway all the time, as a respected citizen, and now does precisely what Meg had feared. The consequences are horrific…

the 3 books pictured are

Fearing Sellafield - colum kenny

A nuclear Ireland? - john carroll / petra kelly

the pompeii syndrome - david rice

written in 1971 by marvin gaye and sung in 2007 by eleanor mcevoy on the double a side single suffer so well mercy mercy me (release March 18th 2007) eleanor starts her australian tour march 9th

“Woo mercy, mercy me, mercy father
Ah things ain’t what they used to be, no no
Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas,
fish full of mercury
Ah oh mercy, mercy me
Ah things ain’t what they used to be, no no
Radiation under ground and in the sky
Animals and birds who live nearby are dying
Oh mercy, mercy me”

and yes the ocean is dying and who is going to save it? a cheap swipe in the movie Sneakers

Cosmo: Who else is going to change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?

so international capitalism and its serving governments are doing a better job? my arse they are! what about the attempt by the Irish Govt. to bring the UK govt. to court over Sellafield via the Permanent Court of Arbitration, alas it was another fine FF mess led by Martin Cullen.

news junkie that I am i am following the developing story [perma search rss] The crew of the Esperanza, a Russian firefighting vessel converted to a Greenpeace protest ship, say they are concerned about the environment and the safety of the Nisshin Maru’s crew; more details on the Esperanza blog, Nisshin Maru had a fire on board and one crew member is confirmed dead. Help from the Greenpeace ship was rejected when offered.

The Esperanza with the Nisshin Maru and other whaling ships in the distance. © Greenpeace/Beltra

daev walsh of blather.net is on board the Esperanza and is webloging the events on a very regular basis.

IRISH DOCTORS’ ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION

Open Meeting
Date;Fri. 23rd Feb. 07
Venue Tailors Hall, Back Lane,Dublin 8
(Near Christ Church).

HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

11.30 - 13.00
Dr. Elizabeth Cullen - Health Implications
of ClimateChange.

Michael McKeon - Mercury in the
Environment

Ms.Juliet Duff and Dr Ohnesorge
Ecohealth Education.

14.15 - 16.00
Dr. Vyvyan Howard - Health implications of
nano-Technology.

Dr.Gerd Oberfield - EMR and Public Health.

Dr George Carlo - Mobile Phones and
Health.

16.00 Break
16.15 - 17.00 - Open Forum and Close

17.00 - 18.00 AGM.

Anti Water Charges Demonstration - March 31st

also i read; gerry adams said today
“In the next few months we are fighting elections. First in the north and then in the South. We are the only party to contest and have elected representatives throughout Ireland.”
he should look at this

get everyone in the country to spend a waiting period [7-9 hours] in A&E before may 11/18. i did it last night, a quite monday night, 7pm - 2am. Great staff, broken health service, needs fixing saving, my car was parked in the private car park on the grounds of a public hospital, the multi storey will be converted to a private clinic where consultants will be allowed to break the rules Harney insists on bringing in that doctors can’t moonlight unless its in one of her co-lo pub-pri-rip-off’s.passing the time away in A&E while reading colm kenny “fearing sellafield” i read that (well he quoted ‘nuclear ireland’ which i have not read for years) that Ray Burke supported the building of a nuclear power station at carnsore point. He who gifted tax free mining to Shell.

if after 7 hours in A&E, you still want to vote FF, then you should be re admitted.

this governments got to go