When Hillary Clinton came to Dublin in 2004 fund raising, she went shopping and purchased 3 CDs. One of the three was by Eleanor McEvoy whom Hillary had met in December 1996 when McEvoy warmed up the 80,000 strong crowd in a cold College Green before the Clintons took the stage. [the song is 'Leave Her Now' from Eleanors debut ablum]
thanks bertie ahern & Fianna Fail.
“those buckets will come in handy for a whip around”
yesterday local councillors Cllr Healy Maher & Cosgrave supported the material contravention that gave way to development on the Edros site.
photo taken in march 2003 at a previous rezoning attempt at the site.
in November in the Irish Times cllr Healy having objected to the planning application said the following
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Opposition to apartments on amenity-zoned site in Howth
A proposal to grant planning permission for apartments on Howth’s largest amenity-zoned site would be a massive blow to the community, says Green Party Cllr David Healy.
Pierse Contracting is looking to build 64 apartments and a café in five blocks on the Edros site beside the Martello Tower in Howth, which was a community sports amenity until eight years ago.
Healy says the development would have a major visual impact on historical and amenity routes and locations in Howth, including views from Abbey Street, St Mary’s Abbey, Tower Hill, Balscadden Road, Ted Hayden’s field and East Pier, and would be out of keeping with the historic character of this important heritage area. Fingal County Council is proposing to use a material contravention procedure to allow a breach of the development plan which would require a three-quarters majority of the councillors to support it.
“There have been suggestions that the developer give money towards the development of amenities elsewhere in Howth. However, in the absence of concrete plans for such facilities, such as planning permission and capital funding arrangements, money itself carries no guarantee of results,” says Healy.
has planning permission and capital funding arrangements been granted? NO.
Howth needs a community centre. The new proposed site 
is 0.8 miles from the village, welcome as it is to the community it has not got the access that the open space site at edros had. I wish the groups that are working hard to site a new community centre in Howth every success in the future. It is a great pity the best amenity site in Howth will not be part of their plans. Edros site was gifted to the people of Howth but yesterday it was gifted to the developer to make tens of millions more now that the dev plan has been materially contravened and the site (he owns) is no longer to be used for open space / amenity.
| €3.50 per child water tax |
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bin the bill |
Tens of thousands of litres of water leak from the mains water to the ground water every day. Children sit in drafty prefab rooms in need of repair, FF/GP/PD govt give nowhere near the cap grant they promised in May ‘07 and class sizes promised to INTO in April have not happened. What does the government do in kind, tells schools they have to pay local authority water bills. I am sick of funding a broken service from outside the system (fees! Cake Sales etc). Not content to sit on the side lines and moan I joined my childrens (x3 one school) school board of management and started a 4 year term in December ‘07. I aim not to be quite about it. These bills have to go and the government may follow them into the bin.
The Government faces a major new storm after it imposed a €3.50 water levy on thousands of primary pupils.
And in quietly slipping out the latest ’stealth tax’ announcement last night, it immediately triggered widespread anger among parents and teachers.
Schools simply do not have the money to pay the planned water bills, according to primary school principals.
The Irish Primary Principals Network has protested that the new flat-rate water-charges being introduced by the Government are unfair.
Under the plan schools will have to pay €3.50 per pupil for water services this year and €4 in 2009.
A metered system will then be introduced and schools will have to pay the full cost for water use.
The Government claims it is a necessary part of the EU legislation and Minister Mary Hanafin says our schools have to meet EU water conservation levels.
got this last year from Brody Sweeney / fine gael. Brody’s .ie/.com are gone as is his ambition of a Dail seat to young gun Terrence Flanagan who is busy delivering retraction notices to every door in Sutton Park over storm drains & Brickfields.
the card needs a caption. Out in the cold for 5 more years? flat on my face? “will I give Labour back the red hat?”
dónal writes over on workers play time
not for the first time dónal is a few weeks ahead of me on a blog topic. I saw such chains in the EBS and thought the same. Never got round to posting it. Sometimes I think I read his blog as I sleep surf. But he writes so infrequent this is not possible.
Miss-Quotation-Marx
“The Banks have nothing to lose but their chains” and our money at the casino stock exchange
I heard David McWilliams steal Joe Higgins clothes and lines on Morning Ireland this morning MP3 [time code 37:45 - 39-04] “a financial coup .. (by) a cabal of property owners in cahoots with the government. ” I was there the night Joe Higgins debated McWilliams but I didn’t think we had such an effect on the guy. BTW 750+ downloads of the debate on MP3. my god who needs RSS, when an audio blog will do. 750 wow thats more than twice the 350 that stuffed into the packed Teachers Club in Oct 2006.
A field full of bricks? who knows, the council never checked, when i was growing up in the area it was a marsh, a swamp and an illegal dump. For all we know the dumping could be asbestos dumping like what happened down the road on the N32.
Now it remains zoned amenity land thanks to the efforts of the local community, residents associations & community sports groups and the socialist party locally who saved it from rezoning in the county development plan 2005 - 2011. Plans are underway to rezone it again by means of a variation to the dev plan.
please forgive the photo quality but all i had was a 1.2mp camera and the surveyors with staff were on site a few weeks back. I have recorded a piece for radio about this site. Its due to broadcast December 3rd but you can hear it now below.
While not fully explored here there are other issues regarding the glut of housing stock in the County, the amount of already rezoned land that will take this development and the amount of mixed type infill that has already happened in the Baldoyle area.
audio recorded for future use on enviro on Near 90 FM
Bank officials ‘not paid’ to be confronted by armed robbers
if this Judge was in the Labour Court he could also award the bank officials a pay rise as long as banks have money it will attract robbers.
“People who work in banks, shops and stores are not the best paid workers. They are certainly not paid enough to be confronted by armed robbers” said Judge Tony Hunt
But the Judge is out of touch with the pay scales in the banks The chief executive of Bank of Ireland, Brian Goggin received a total remuneration (pay plus bonus and pension) of in excess of E2.5m 2005 & near €4M for the financial year just passed.
Rather than a minimum wage that creates an under class (where the minimum becomes the maximum a low pay employer will pay) lets have a real MAXIMUM WAGE where Goggin’s of this world are capped and all workers are to be paid no less than the top executive in a company inside an agreeable national margin.
But there are other kinds of theft. Thousand of people will be homeless today as banks retake their homes. Its no comfort but Bank of Ireland share price on the ISE tumbled over 6% to €9.18 today and the ISE lost €7.2 billion in value over the past 5 days or 36% over the last 9 months.
Our pensions I hear you cry. At the crazy cash casino of capitalism some players are asked to leave the table early. thats the game. the system sucks you dry all your life and then leaves you high and dry.
Tags: capitalism, banks, robbery
“I am only a child, Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be. In school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? You grownups say you love us, but I challenge you, please, to make your actions reflect your words.” Severn Suzuki
“You only pay for what you throw away”
