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…
Category: enviro
Chloro or Cryptosporidium
[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…
eight(h) wonder of the world
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 is Ireland’s fastest growing county if not europe’s
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…
Fine Gael on transport
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…
Fairshare for Portrane
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 sewerâ€? to carry untreated…
the irish sun
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…
what baldoyle needs
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…
twitter from the tunnel
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.