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Liga Eirecom 20:45 Drogheda United - UCD 4 Julio de 2008
2008-07-04 11:23:00
20:45 Drogheda United - UCD Apuesta: Under 2.5Cuota: 1.6Casa: BwinTorneo: Liga Eirecom (Irlanda) -FALLADA- Resultado: 2-1Partido de la 16ª Jornada de la Liga Eirecom irlandesa entre el Drogheda United y el UCD. El Drogheda United se sitúa 5º con 25 puntos. En casa lleva un total de 9 goles a favor y 7 goles en contra de 8 partidos jugados como local. Su rival de hoy, el UCD se sitúa 10º con 10 puntos. A fuera lleva 4 goles a favor y 7 goles en contra de 8 partidos jugados como visitante. Partido a priori en el que es más favorito el Drogheda United al jugar en casa y al estar mejor clasificado, por lo que debería ganar 1-0 o 2-0 o incluso puede salir empate. Ambos equipos son bastante underianos y sobretodo son defensivos con lo cual les cuesta meter goles a favor pero a la misma vez reciben pocos. El Drogheda United lleva 11 unders y el UCD lleva 12 unders de 16 partidos jugados. Apostamos al under 2.5 a 1.6 y confiemos que salga bien.
Hope government doesn?t cave to property interests
2008-05-25 14:57:00
Reported in the Tribune, the builders want the government to give people money to buy houses. Obviously this is daftness of the higher order. Have people not copped on that the last thing people need to do is buy another house, especially one where people are expected to burn expenses petrol to get to work. ...
True cost of living in East Meath Utopia
2008-05-14 00:35:00
Are people still coming to East Meath for the bucolic bliss? By that I mean stone age bucolic bliss where we can live out our fantasies as cavemen with none of the modern distractions of an education system or any form of culture. We can head down to to the local shopping centre to hunt ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
West Street, Drogheda
2008-02-14 23:51:00
I don’t know about anyone else, but I have very fond memories of West Street in Drogheda. It was always chaotic, always full of people and full of great shops. In the days before the Celtic Tiger it would not be unusual to see cars triple parked on the street and the traffic wardens were ...
Links to Primetime Show on East Meath
2008-02-14 00:10:00
Here they are Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
When Ottomans Sent Aid to the Irish
2007-11-13 06:36:00
What do an Ottoman medal of honor, an Irish Coat of Arms and Ireland’s Favorite Football (soccer) team have in common? The answer is in this article, it is a surprising but brief account of significant but little known history that makes our lives just a tad bit more interesting. read more | digg story
By: Wa Salaam
Zoning Gone Bad
2007-11-11 00:43:00
Strong words reported from the head of An Bord Pleanala regarding crazy zoning by local authorities. He raises the spectre that local authorities may be liable for damages due to improper land zoning decisions. The Chairperson said he noted the exercise by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government of his powers to intervene ...
Commuting Statistics for East Meath
2007-11-11 00:23:00
We analysed the commuting statistics contained in the 2006 census for East Meath. For this purpose East Meath includes the part of the St Mary’s DED in Meath and the Julianstown DED. Out of a population of 17,333 11,189 were over five and their commuting data were analysed in the census. (As an aside this ...
Drogheda Environs Planning Process Launched
2007-10-25 14:28:00
Meath County Council advertised for submissions regarding the biggest planning proposal yet in East Meath. They are looking for submissions regarding the making of a Local Area Plan for the Drogheda Environs, a lump of ground stretching from the M1 all the way over to Donacarney. The lands include the red area on the map, ...
The NRA strikes back
2007-10-24 21:20:00
Interesting submission from the NRA regarding plans to build 500-1000 more houses in Stamullen. The development in Stamullen seems to be predicated on one of those dodgy deals involving getting pitches for houses that are all the rage nowadays. This is what the NRA had to say: This submission sets out that the NRA are seriously concerned ...
Good Neighbourhoods!
2007-10-15 22:46:00
Good article in the Irish edition of the Sunday Times yesterday regarding the regeneration of some horrific local authority states in Limerick City. Some choice quotes from the article: From a former local authority engineer a combination of bad planning, inept management, and wilful official indiference is to blame for creating ghettoes. Limerick’s crime problem…is a hangover ...
Planning, Estates, The Sunday Times, Marian Finucane
2007-10-14 23:55:00
Comments on the Marian Finucane show (1:07 in) regarding an article in the Sunday Times (no link). Bottom line they have had to demolish about 1500 houses in several estates in Limerick because they are so disfunctional that this is the only solution to the criminality in these areas. Someone has copped on that a century old ...
5000 Houses?Not in South County Dublin
2007-10-08 22:27:00
South County Dublin County Council votes against the construction of 5000 houses. Some comentary here. Interesting that this jumbo development had the kicker that 300 locals would be given cheap houses. Hardly a good way to do sustainable planning and development. When will the lesson be learnt that the acceptance of mega sprawl developments has ...
Estate Agent Hyteria
2007-09-23 10:58:00
Following on from the previous post, this article appeared in the Sunday Indo. A leading estate agent has confirmed that a house sale was cancelled directly as a result of the buyer viewing the gloomy predictions on last week’s David McWilliams RTE show, The Generation Game. However, Keith Lowe, CEO of estate agents Douglas Newman Good said ...
East Meath Houses Statistics from Census
2007-09-21 20:09:00
The remarkable spate of house building in East Meath was recently reveaed in the census results. The census reported on the year of construction for each house surveyed. The graph below details the results. UP until the year 2000, except for a mini-boom in the early 1970’s there were never more than a few hundred ...
Drogheda Leader misquotes Thomas Byrne?again
2007-09-21 19:23:00
Thomas Byrne made this statement on his blog, regarding a second misquote in the Drogheda Leader. We already commented on a similar incident in which Deputy Byrne had to correct the record by way of a comment.
High Rise versus Sprawl
2007-09-15 23:58:00
There’s a big deal happening in Dublin. Developers want to build high density, high rise accommodation in the centre of Dublin in Ballsbridge. This could be a turning point for Ireland. Out here in East Meath we are beginning to see first hand the true horror of low density commuting slums being built into every available ...
5000 Houses: Misleading Headlines in Drogheda Leader
2007-09-14 00:00:00
We are surprised that the Drogheda Leader would print an obviously misleading headline regarding the Drogheda United Development of 5000 houses, equivalent to Balbriggan, on the south side of Drogheda. The headline falsely states that the go-ahead has been given for a stadium and would perhaps deter interested parties from making submissions on the application. Whilst ...
Number of houses for sale soars
2007-09-06 22:46:00
It’s been a while since we updated our daft housing index. It will be recalled that we started counting the number of houses for sale in both the East Meath area (Laytown, Bettystown, Donacarney, Mornington and Julianstown) and Drogheda on the daft.ie website. The index started in the middle of October 2006 and since then ...
Laytown School Saga: One Year On
2007-08-25 00:33:00
It’s exactly one year since there was major outrage concerning Laytown School. In year there were many false alarms and finally the shell of a “temporary” school is emerging in Laytown. There are also hints a couple more “temporary” schools are taking shape elsewhere. No doubt the 2009 local elections will bring another wave of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Is East Meath Growth Sustainable?
2007-06-08 15:23:00
I was doing some more analysis on the population growth figures for our area. According to the Planning Strategy for the Greater Drogheda Area the population is expected to increase by approximately 55,000 in the next 18 years, split almost evenly between Drogheda and East Meath. In terms of sustainability the Regional Planning Guidelines for ...
This is a great idea
2007-06-07 10:15:00
Via USA Today. Would it work here? Would it f**k. California is pioneering what could be the next battleground against global warming: filing suit to hold cities and counties accountable for greenhouse gas emissions caused by poorly planned suburban sprawl. The unprecedented action is being closely watched by states that have taken aggressive steps to combat ...
Value of Education
2007-06-03 12:21:00
Two contrasting stories from the week. Firstly there were celebrations surrounding the opening of a new school in Ratoath last week. They people are in fact celebrating that they no longer have to send their kids to school in a race course. Easter and Christmas were the hardest, we had to pack everything into a ...
Public and Private
2007-06-03 10:46:00
We already blogged about how the public realm is being handed over to private interests. We were struck by two contrasting schemes. The first envisages the building of private hospitals on public land, the so called co-location plan. The second was the idea to provide public housing on private lands, contained in the original Part ...
Easy Wins For Drogheda And The Saints
2007-05-25 11:49:00
Spartak Moscow And Start In Norway Can Make Your Profit Bigger1. Drogheda - ShamrockFriday, 25 May, at United ParkKick off: 19:45 ukPrediction: Drogheda to winLOST 0:2The odds: in Decimal 1.72Bwin in Decimal 1.70William Hill in Decimal 1.70Ladbrokes in Fractional 4/6The verdict:Drogheda will try to rebuild some pride tonight at United Park when they welcome Rovers in attempt to fill the gap to the leaders. Last time when both( and it was earlier this month) met United felt 3:0 down. Now they want revenge and the class of the team allow an easy home win that will not let The Saints extend their lead on the top of the league. Few key players are still doubtful for United but there is a big chance to see Cahill, Webb or Gray in action.Live on:Internet - Livescore.comPhoto: irish football online2. St. Patricks - Sliego RoversFriday, 25 MayKick off: 19:45 ukPrediction: Home winWON - 3:1The odds: in Decimal 1.44Bwin in Decimal 1.53William Hill in Decimal 1.50Ladbrokes in Fractional 1/...
How to vote in Meath East
2007-05-23 21:47:00
So tomorrow is polling day and you are asked to vote for the TDs who will represent Meath East in the next Dail. So what do you do? Do you vote for the government that oversaw the rampant over development of our area over the last 10 years? Do you really believe there is an “alternative ...
East Meath Confidential
2007-05-16 23:51:00
Tip of the trilby to the Drogheda Leader and Patrick Reilly. Let’s hope I don’t meet the same fate as the movie character that coined the phrase “Hush Hush, on the Q-T”
All quiet on the Bryanstown front
2007-05-11 23:41:00
Funny there hasn’t been a murmur from the Drogheda United campaign to build 5000 houses in Bryanstown. Maybe they are waiting for the Local Area Planning process. On the other hand one could be forgiven for thinking that they are keeping their heads down until after the election so as not to cause any embarrassment ...
Planned Chaos in Meath
2007-05-11 19:14:00
Inspired by a dumb politician and an interesting comment thread I decided to dig a little deeper into how the planning chaos that is Meath came about. Was it an accident or could it have been avoided? In summary it is clear that in 1999-2000 central government planners saw the tsunami coming and issued planning guidelines ...
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