Councillor Dermot Lacey

Letters to the Editor

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  • Letter to Editor – Government on Poolbeg Incinerator

    The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times, Dublin 2. Dear Editor, I don’t doubt the personal sincerity of Councillor Wendy Hedermans opposition to the planned incinerator at Poolbeg (letters 15th April). Unfortunately for us all however her Party – the Progresive Democrats – if judged by their actions, not their words, obvously do not share…

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  • Letter to Editor – RTÉ & Northern Ireland

    The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2. Dear Editor, Watching the unfolding crisis develop in Northern Ireland one thought increasingly crosses my mind. When Peace and Stability does come to Northern Ireland, what on earth will RTE find to talk about? Any chance their News and Current Affairs (sic) Department might…

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  • Letter to the Editor – RTÉ

    The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times. Dear Editor, John Bowman’s review (Irish Times 5th Feb)of John Horgans “Broadcasting and Public Life: RTE NEWS and Current Affairs 1926-1997”, reminded us of the quality we once could expect from RTE and the hope that we might see it again.

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  • Letter to Editor – Martin Cullen

    The Editor, Letters page, The Irish Times, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2. Dear Editor, Now that the enquiry into the, relatively unimportant, Monicagate saga has concluded could the real failures of Martin Cullen be addressed:

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  • Letter to Editor – Local Government Reform

    The Editor Letters Page Southside People Dear Editor, I have no wish to get involved in the internal affairs of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, but Mairead Mehigan, Chairperson Dun Laoghaire An Taisce (letters SouthSide People) should not get too downhearted by their failure to secure places on the new Strategic Policy Committees.

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  • Letter to Editor – Fitzwilliam Sq Park

    The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2. Dear Editor, So now we know, courtesy of Terence Reeves-Smyth, (letters 29th December) that, even if Dublin City Council sought the transfer of Fitzwilliam Square Park to the people of Dublin, the good old Earl of Pembroke would not so approve and the Park…

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  • Letter to Editor – Belfield Development

    The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2. Dear Editor, I am truly delighted that Kieran Mc Gowan (Irish Times 14th December) is “impressed every time he steps on to the beautiful Belfield campus”.

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  • Letter to Editor – Adams’ Republicanism

    The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2. Dear Editor, Continuing M. Magill’s theme (letters 20 November). Surely the saddest joke of all is that Gerry Adams et al are allowed to call themselves “Republicans”? Yours sincerely, Councillor Dermot Lacey

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  • Letter to Editor – ESRI

    The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2. Dear Editor, Their most recent survey (Irish Times 17 November), allied to the nonsensical comments from the ESRI on the sale of City Council flats, surely confirms the greatest oxymoron of them all – ” Economist Intelligence Unit”. Yours sincerely, Councillor Dermot Lacey

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  • Royston Brady as “Most Successful Lord Mayor” (Letter to Journalist/Editor)

    Mr Liam Collins, Sunday Independent, Dear Mr Collins, I write further to your article in the Sunday Independent (24th October) concerning the former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Royston Brady. Now the travails of Mr Brady do not concern me – except in so far as the obscene amounts of money spent on his European Election…

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