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No New Hospital for Area
2008-04-04 12:18:00 Navan got recommended as the site for the new North Eastern regional hospital. Bit of kick in the teeth for the East Meath/Drogheda area. It would have been a huge economic boost to the area as well as being convenient in terms of accesability to health services. That been said, why build a new hospital less ... More About: Health , Hospital , Area
Bertie
2008-04-02 21:46:00 This is by far the best tribute to Bertie out there. He is a nice man but that?s not nearly enough. Apart from his dodgy bank transactions, his immediate coterie of buddies was linked to the building industry in ways that compromised him ? and made it impossible that he would ever back a review of ...
Bertie
2008-04-02 12:43:00 Bertie hands in his notice. About time. Local FF TD almost cries. Everyone else delighted. More About: Bertie
Jobs for the boys
2008-04-02 11:32:00 Remember we commented before about how huge housing developments were justified by the promise of “jobs”. You know, 7000 of them in Stamullen at a “Swedish style garden centre” and other assorted shopping centres. Well someone far smarter than me has analysed the situation brilliantly. He puts it like this: There is no nonsense so gross that ... More About: News , Politics , Jobs , Analysis , Houses
The Penny is Finally Beginning to Drop
2008-03-27 21:13:00 The penny is finally beginning to drop that there is something seriously wrong with the planning situation in East Meath. The residents of Mornington Park in Donacarney can’t believe that permission has been granted for 713 houses for 2000 people in area devoid of services, roads and employment. Read the local news reports HERE and ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Houses , Planning , Development
Privatisiation and Consumerism
2008-03-25 22:07:00 Watch this chapter from the documentary “The Corporation” and look around you at what is happening in the Health Service in the Education system, water, waste collection. Also reflect on where you sit on the treadmill by reading this piece on productivity. One reasonable definition of increased personal productivity is creating the ability to do more with ... More About: Consumerism
Age of anti-cassandra
2008-03-25 18:53:00 This is a good point from Paul Krugman. Today, our public discourse is dominated by people who have been wrong about everything ? but are still, mysteriously, treated as men of wisdom, whose judgments should be believed. Those who were actually right about the major issues of the day can?t get a word in edgewise. Although said ... More About: Analysis , Anti , Cassandra
Zoning
2008-03-25 18:46:00 This is a great podcast from James Howard Kunstler. It’s about zoning, where it came from and why it is irrelevant today. The ideas are equally applicable to Ireland and East Meath. This is the blurb Ya seen one town in America ya seen ‘em all. But that’s because they’re all mandated to look that way! James ... More About: Global Warming , Analysis , Planning , Development , Construction
From the Archives
2008-03-24 21:04:00 We came across a few clippings from the archives of Septemper 2005. First the monster Bryanstown scheme came to light with a plan for 1300 houses. Read the article in the Irish Times HERE. It’s amazing how the project has increased first to 5000 houses and now to 8000 houses in the space of less than ... More About: Politics , Houses , Planning , Development , Meath
Nice article about public service
2008-03-24 20:51:00 This was a good article from Garret Fitzgerald. Read it by clicking HERE. More About: Public Service , Public , Article , Service , Nice
Schools
2008-03-21 00:25:00 As part of a series this week there was an item on the 6 O’Clock News tonight about the ongoing school situation in the country. As the piece points out there are up to 100,000 new children entering the system in the next five years and the Department of Education and Science cannot build schools. ... More About: Politics , Power , Schools , Analysis , Planning
700 houses in Donacarney
2008-03-19 14:31:00 Courtesy of Senator Dominic Hannigan, news that An Bord Pleanala overruled its owne inspector and granted planing permission for enough houseing for 2000 people in Donacarney, that’s enough to increase the Coastal population by more than 35%. I would urge everyone to invest an hour and actually read the inspectors report to hear what a trained ... More About: Politics , Houses , Planning , Development , Meath
Outer Orbital Route Cancelled
2008-03-13 14:45:00 It’s amazing, the government decided to cancel the ?2B outer orbital route that would have linked Drogehda-Navan-Trim-Naas. It was announced with great fanfare less than a year ago, but the cancellation of the biggest infrastructure project in the state doesn’t even get a mention in the national press. Indeed the Indo is still puffing about ... More About: Analysis , Meath , Route , Irish Independent
Jobs
2008-03-13 14:28:00 I get annoyed when a new shopping centre is PRed with the promise of “jobs”, both in the construction phase and in the operation phase. See here and here. You get muck like this. OK in the 80’s and early nineties any kind of job was welcome and indeed people queued to work in Abrakebabra. But lads ... More About: Politics , Power , Jobs , Analysis , Houses
Cream of the Crop
2008-03-11 23:21:00 http://www.meathchronicle.ie/story.asp?st ID=2340&cid=126&cid2=134 TRIM Councillor Jimmy Peppard has called for cat licences to be introduced, at the recent town council meeting. Colr Peppard said that cats create a massive amount of problems and said they were a far worse danger to the health of children than dogs. He said with random breeding you can end up with a crazy situation ... More About: Crop , Cream
Climate Change Impact Assessment of Meath County Development Plan
2008-03-07 14:32:00 We were struck in the last week with the utter absurdity of the government’s approach to climate change. It is now accepted that if the average global temperature rises by more than 2 centigrade then 10’s of millions of people will die and many millions more will be impoverished. Ultimately it could destroy the conditions ... More About: Politics , Global Warming , Technology , Power , Climate Change
NRA on a different planet
2008-03-04 22:08:00 Listen to this Derek Mooney interview with the former chairman of the National Roads authority(46:00 in). He claims that a majority of people favour tolls and that without them there would be no roads in Ireland. They then interviewed people in Drogheda to hear what they thought about the toll and the effect on Drogheda. More About: Politics , Power , Engineering , Analysis , Planet
If everything is so s**t why are you so happy?
2008-03-02 10:47:00 A lot of people have asked why so many things for the majority of people are so bad? Why do we endure spirit sapping commuting, high prices, lack of schools, a desperate housing bubble, corrupt politicians and so on. When FF were re-elected last year there was wonder that people returned the dominant political power ... More About: Politics , Global Warming , Power , Analysis , Peak Oil
Slane Area Council: More like the politburo than a Democracy
2008-03-01 11:22:00 We noted a strongly worded piece on the Meath Coast page of the Drogheda Independent. It appears that a considerable portion of the monthly council meetings are now held in secret with the public and press excluded. It was too much for the Drogheda Independent journalist when the secret meeting went on for two hours ... More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Democracy , Corruption
Drogheda Northern Environs Plan Begins to Unravel
2008-02-28 21:31:00 The ink isn’t even dry on the Northern Environs plan in Drogheda when it seems that the plan is unravelling. This plan was put together by Drogheda Borough Council which earmarked land zoned for 8000 houses to accommodate 20,000 people in a development almost the size of Drogheda. The payback for this massive development being ... More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Houses , Planning
Observation on Organisations
2008-02-28 12:49:00 This blog on human nature has a great observation on organisations, specifically: the incorrigible tendency for institutions to be corrupted and to pervert their original purpose. In short, there is an appreciable probability that, in any particular case, an institution charged with a purpose will be used to defeat that purpose. Consider this; in the writer?s experience ... More About: Analysis , Development , Meath County Council
See no Evil
2008-02-24 11:10:00 What kind of country do we live in? Over the last months this question is being asked by us and others. Two stories indicate the levels to which we have declned. Firstly two solicitors who were found to have operated a massive tax fraud on fees earned from public funds were not struck off because it ... More About: Politics , Power , Corruption , Evil
Just how bad is it going to get?
2008-02-24 00:14:00 Well, following on from the previous post we decided to analyse the plans and point out what the area population projections are looking like. The relevant documents include the Meath County Development Plan, the so-called Planning Strategy for the Greater Drogheda Area, and the Local Area Plan for the Drogheda Environs (in Meath). It doesn’t look ... More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Houses , Julianstown
8000 houses in Drogheda Environs! WTF
2008-02-23 23:45:00 An article in last week’s Drogheda Indo unwittingly dropped something of a bombshell. The article itself was some kind of PR piece about the future opening of a half-built shopping centre in Grangerath, the massive sprawling (but well laid out) housing estate on the southern edge of Drogheda. Whether or not this is news is ... More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Houses , Planning
Urban design to combat obesity?
2008-02-18 12:04:00 Not in East Meath. Many people cannot even get from their houses to the main road without a car in our area, not to mention getting to shop, bus stop, train station or to work. As we already pointed out 75% of the population of East Meath travels to work or school by car, a ... More About: Health , Design , Engineering , Analysis , Houses
Planning for development 10% size of Drogheda submitted
2008-02-17 10:43:00 The Tribune reports that planning has been submitted by a developer for 1200 houses on the North side of Drogheda. The development would increase the number of houses in Drogheda by 10% in less than six years. It is part of a massive 7000 houses plan for the “Northern Environs” of Drogheda that could add ... More About: News , Politics , Power , Analysis , Houses
Big Ideas in Engineering
2008-02-16 18:46:00 We love big ideas and we love great engineering. Sadly both are in short supply in East Meath. Anyway we found this website from the American National Academy of Engineering . It is posing the big challenges in engineering for the 21st century. We were very much taken by the challenge to restore and improve urban ... More About: Global Warming , Ideas , Analysis , Construction
Youtube Version of Prime Time Programme
More articles from this author:2008-02-15 20:49:00 Sound and dubbing not great. See post below for links to original source. More About: News , Politics , Youtube , Power , Houses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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