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John Boyle O?Reilly Summer School
2007-08-23 21:17:00 John Boyle O’Reilly Summer School This year’s John Boyle O’Reilly School , hosted by The Old Drogheda Society , will take place on Sunday September 9th in the Boyne Valley Hotel , Drogheda . This year’s theme is ” The Flight of the Earls” . This years speakers will be Dr John McGurk , Dr Patrick Fitzgerald ... More About: John
Dr Ruairi Hanley
2007-08-19 23:06:00 Dr. Ruairi Hanley we at EastMeath.Org salute you for telling it like it is. The bold Doctor wrote the following letter to the Irish Times yesterday. And then we read in the Mail on Sunday that the erstwhile doctor has been booted out of the PDs for daring to criticise Mary Harney. Heavens. And he’s ... More About: Analysis , Drogheda
Lots of ?Town Centres? but no towns
2007-08-19 12:24:00 It strikes me as odd, but they don’t build shopping centres any more, they build “town centres”. The prime example in our area is Bettystown, where a new “town centre” is being built and the traditional square in Bettystown is being gutted. They are even moving coast road to accomodate this. According to the bumpf: ... More About: Analysis , Planning , Development , Construction , Drogheda
When Shopping Centres Attack
2007-08-09 22:05:00 Nice insight into the world of shopping centres from the Indo. It seems that a company called Parolen (Developing the Laurence Centre) agreed to withdraw objections and appeals against Talebury’s Scotch Hall for a cool ?4 million. Now it seems that Talebury are alleging that the deal is falling apart and have gone to court to ... More About: Shopping , Analysis , Planning , Development , Construction
Planning Submitted for ?Impossible? Stadium
2007-08-05 18:53:00 Articles in the papers these past two weeks are saying that Drogheda Utd have submitted plans to build their stadium but not the 5000 houses. Readers will recall that there was a major PR campaign in March aimed at circumventing the relevant planning rules in order to fast-track a decision on the massive development which ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Houses , Planning , Development
Meath Councillor Paints a Bleak Picture
2007-08-02 21:44:00 This is an excellent letter in this week’s Meath Chronicle, from the horse’s mouth so to speak. Cllr Jim Holloway paints a bleak picture of a depressed local administration for Meath. I can’t add to this. Dear sir - ?BLG? is Better Local Government and was launched some years ago as the new way for county ... More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Planning , Development
Excellent Flooding Resource
2007-07-29 10:30:00 I came accross this excellent resource for flooding. In the month that England is under severe flooding and in an era in East Meath where the message is zone and build and worry about the flooding later this resource is timely. Go to http://www.floodmaps.ie/ you can search by town or townland and there is archived official ... More About: Planning , Development , Corruption , Flooding
Good News on Incineration
2007-07-29 10:06:00 From the Business Post: Gormley moves against incineration projects 29 July 2007 By John Burke The government is set to deliver a crippling blow to the long-term viability of incineration projects in Ireland. The Sunday Business Post has learned that Minister for the Environment John Gormley has told local authorities in recent days that any move to skew ... More About: News , Meath , Good News , Good , Incineration
One more spin on the rezoning merry-go-round
2007-07-24 22:40:00 Interestingly the new and Green Minister for the Environment has stepped into the breach and has for the first time used powers to overturn zoning in a County Development plan. It was reported that he has ordered Monaghan County Council to vary the development plan which saw zoning equivalent to a population increase of over ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Planning , Meath
Local Government?
2007-07-15 19:09:00 The minister for the environment is launching a review if local government and will be advertising for public submission soon. The performance of basket-case Meath County Council has long been a bugbear of this blog. So if you get the chance you could put down on paper how you think things should be run. According to ... More About: Politics , Government , Power , Local
What to do with Alverno
2007-07-11 20:26:00 Idea: The Alverno House is for sale. Wouldn’t it make a great library/civic centre for the area. The council should buy it and spend some money on it. We deserve it. More About: Meath , Laytown , To Do
Town and Country
2007-06-28 18:10:00 Statistics released today by the CSO regarding planning permissions. Details of the number of permissions granted and average floor space are given for housing developments, apartments and one off rural housing. We already commented on the controversy surrounding one off houses in the countryside. Here are the numbers Total Units: 20,538 Appartments: 4884 Estate Houses: 10912 One off houses: 4742 That ... More About: Politics , Country , Analysis , Planning , Development
Local Needs
2007-06-27 13:20:00 The issue of “locals only” restrictions on building houses in rural areas has been raised today in the context that the EU believes that this kind of limitation on who can get planning permission is illegal under provisions in the EU treaties. It is an issue on which there is a lot of political controversy. This ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Transport , Planning , Development
Kevin Myers makes a point
2007-06-26 13:47:00 Nice piece from Kevin Myers. Makes the valid point, namely, why don’t they let more people live in Dublin that way you wouldn’t have to build so many semis in the fields and down the narrow lanes of East Meath. Referring to plans to build high rise in Ballsbridge I don’t know the fine detail of ... More About: Analysis , Transport , Planning , Development , Construction
Byrne?s first day on the job
2007-06-26 12:46:00 Thomas Byrne blogs that today is his first day in his new job as TD for Meath East. The young TD says… At last, the big day finally arrived!I was accompanied by my wife Ann and my Mam and Dad. Friends from Meath East as well as old University colleagues were there too to wish me ... More About: Politics , Power
Nice
2007-06-25 17:49:00 From a senate candidate With the Seanad election underway at present there is a justified focus on its undemocratic and archaic character. However, the Seanad election is symptomatic of a deeper democratic deficit. Just walk around and talk to people in our expanding new housing estates or in the small communities of rural Ireland. People everywhere ... More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Corruption , Nice
Eastern European Old Mill Julianstown Disgarce
2007-06-24 01:24:00 The Eastern European community in the area disgraced themselves this evening. There was some kind of festival taking place in the Old Mill Hotel in Julianstown . It was clear that trouble was expected from the start since the organisers employed security guards who blocked off the Julianstown to Duleek road. During the afternoon enthusiastic Eastern ... More About: Analysis , Eastern European
A council estate in Bettystown
2007-06-23 10:33:00 There was a report in the Drogheda Indo (link not up yet) that residents in Bettystown are worried about Meath County Council plans to build a small council estate near the Maples in Bettystown. This is not a satisfactory situation for any of the parties concerned. Ninety years of experience have taught that standalone council estates ... More About: Politics , Estate , Analysis , Planning , Development
More Dodgy Deals for Development
2007-06-23 10:22:00 This time in Wicklow. The village of Greystones gets a school site, ?3M in cash and in return gets a shopping centre on the scale of Blanchardstown or Dundrum. Maybe I am wrong but there is just something not quite right with these “deals”. Firstly land for schools just cannot be tied with development like this. ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Planning , Development , Meath
Guy blogs about bad company, company adds him to gay dating sites.
2007-06-21 22:29:00 The best bit is they didn’t realise their IP was traceable read more | digg story More About: Dating , Company , Blogs , Sites , Logs
Ireland can now repay US for solving North Problem
2007-06-20 23:57:00 Hey I just had a thought. Isn’t it cool that FF has actually prevented a property crash here by boldly and decisively changing the stamp duty rules to make sure that property keeps appreciating at 10% per year for the next 1000 years. There might be a temporary “easing” or “cooling” if you will, but ... More About: Politics , Power , Ireland , Analysis , North
Two Primary Schools a Year are Needed in East Meath
2007-06-15 22:10:00 The following are Projections for the growth in population in the East Meath area including Drogheda Environs to 2013. Population growth is based on new houses in the recently published Meath Development Plan. By 2013 the population will either double or will only increase by 70% depending on whether the average no. of people per house ... More About: Politics , Schools , Analysis , Julianstown , Planning
Gombeen Politics
2007-06-15 09:11:00 Reports that the Independents are getting multimillion packages for their individual constituencies are worrying. The papers are saying that Finian McGrath, Jackie Healy Rae and the disgraced Michael Lowry and Beverly Flynn have been given “packages” for their areas to secure their support. As Jackie Healy Rae described it..”jobs and tarmac”. The message: elect an ... More About: Politics , Power , Analysis , Meath , Corruption
IKEA
2007-06-14 19:00:00 I was reading about IKEA getting planning permission to build a new shop in Ballymun. They are not allowed to open until the M50 is upgraded. It is clear that congestion is bad for business and this condition is so damaging to IKEA that they are offering to pay to speed up the M50 upgrade. The ... More About: Transport , Planning , Development , Meath , Ikea
Important issues raised by Brian Fitzgerald
2007-06-13 23:45:00 Brian Fitzgerald raises some important issues regarding East Meath. WARNINGS that a ?social explosion? could envelop parts of Meath if something is not done to provide recreational facilities for young people and put in more supports for communities under pressure were delivered this week by Meath County Councillor Brian Fitzgerald. He spoke of the ?appalling neglect? ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Issues , Laytown , Brian
Development not taking place fast enough for one local councillor
2007-06-13 23:39:00 Odd sort of crisis in the eyes of Green Councillor Tom Kelly. The local Green seems to think that the lack of sewerage which is limiting the rate of the house building is a crisis. He seems particularly worried about jobs in the building trade. His fellow councillor Jimmy Cudden also agrees in the Meath ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Planning , Development
Julianstown Traffic
2007-06-10 12:24:00 The people at Julian stown .Com have presented very strong evidence that the traffic in the village is not caused by people avoiding the toll but is in fact due to the massive commuting population in the area. See our analysis of the population projections for the area. More About: Traffic , Transport
The political wing of the construction industry
2007-06-10 00:33:00 You know who I mean. But just one more comment on the Green Party’s “negotiations”. Well the Greens want to ban corporate donations to political parties Party leader Trevor Sargent said: “Despite overwhelming evidence that money distorts the electoral and democratic processes, parties continue to peddle the myth that current funding practices are acceptable”. “They are ... More About: Politics , Political , Industry , Analysis , Construction
On Houses
2007-06-10 00:01:00 Some data from the US paints an interesting picture of housing markets. It is now clearly acknowledged that US housing is going into a bust. But if you compare it to Ireland things look daft. This graph shows the number of new houses started in the US over time. Firstly the numbers show that the amount ... More About: Politics , Analysis , Houses , Ouse
The Greens have seen the Horror.
More articles from this author:2007-06-09 19:46:00 I thought it was odd that the Greens and FF can’t agree on a programme for Government, after all they both have the best interests of the country at heart. Right? Wrong! Let look at the points of disagreement as enunciated by Miriam Lord in the Times today. It is clear to this blogger that in fact ... More About: Politics , Health , Horror , Analysis , Transport 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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