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Christmas Recycling & Bin Arrangements
The arrangements for Christmas bin services have just been announced. Black & Brown Bins There will be no collection on Christmas Day. Bins due to be collected on Christmas Day will instead be collected on Saturday 27th December. There will also be no collection on New Year’s Day. Bins due to be collected on New…
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Blue Flag Status for Merrion & Sandymount Strands
(Motion to Dublin City Council) DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL SOUTH EAST AREA COMMITTEE 8th December 2008 Item No. 2 Motion from Councillor Dermot Lacey This Committee requests a report on what steps it would be necessary to take for Sandymount and Merrion Strands to achieve full Blue Flag Status and to report on what steps are…
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A Long, Eventful Week
What a week it’s been! Government meltdown, FÁS in even more trouble, Labour rising in the polls (slowly but steadily!) and perhaps above all Eamon Gilmore’s Leaders address to Party Conference – it was stunning in impact and solid in content. A few digs at the Fianna Fáil Government and their seemingly pointless Green Party…
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Gormley Must Put an End to Poolbeg Incinerator
Press Release Ruairi Quinn TD and the Labour Team in Dublin South East – Councillors Mary Freehill, Kevin Humphreys, Dermot Lacey, Oisin Quinn and local representative Maria Parodi, have expressed their disappointment with the decision of the Environmental Protection Agency to grant a licence for the Incinerator in the Poolbeg Peninsula. They called on the…
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Dermot on Parking – Evening Herald
Dermot was quoted in today’s Evening Herald on Minister Noel Dempsey’s refusal to allow partial-footpath parking. Partial footpath parking has been used in many countries across Europe, and allows cars to be parked with two wheels on the footpath where it is wide enough to still allow full access (including buggies and wheelchairs) past the…
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Save our Chimneys – Evening Herald
Dermot is quoted in today’s Evening Herald in a story about the online petition to save the Poolbeg (aka Pigeon House) ESB Generating Station’s iconic chimneys. Councillor Dermot Lacey is also hoping that Dublin City Council will be able to protect the 207m twin structures from destruction. Iconic “These are iconic symbols and have provided…
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Flooding & Drainage Issues in St Alban’s Park, Sandymount
Residents in St Alban’s Park, Sandymount, have recently been having some problems with flooding and drainage issues. I put a question to the City Manager at the last meeting of Dublin City Council. You can see the reply below. While I am reluctant to put onto a blog precise details as they relate to individual’s…
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Let Battle Commence
We had a great Selection Convention in The Mansion House for the Pembroke-Rathmines and the South East Inner City wards. The Selection Conventions were chaired by well known blogging politician, Dominic Hannigan, and hosted by the Dublin South East Labour Party. Kevin Humphreys and Maria Parodi were selected for the South East Inner City –…
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Swords not alone in boundary problems (Letter to the Editor)
The Editor The Sunday Tribune (published 17th August 2008) The report (News, 10 August) outlining the problems caused by the illogical division of constituencies highlighted problems in Swords. Unfortunately Swords is not alone. The recent announcement of boundaries for the new local government electoral areas offers many more bewildering situations. Given the stated role of…
