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A thought from Chomsky
2008-06-07 00:27:00
Think about this analysis from Chomsky in the context of school facilities in East Meath. GMS: In the so-called reconstruction in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2004, one of the policy-initiatives championed by the Bush administration right up to the present was the dismantling of the New Orleans public school system. The New York Times ...
Thoughts on Laytown school
2008-04-27 11:23:00
The local press is full of comentary on the third annual Laytown school crisis. The reaction is odd to say the least. It seems that a local landowner whose family previously owned the land where the school will be built has retained a key parcel of land and that the department of education included development ...
Third year of School Crisis in Laytown on the Cards
2008-04-15 23:16:00
From the Meath Chronicle, a report that there is a very real prospect of kids being bused to Ratoath from East Meath to attend School. Apparently the decision to grant planning permission to a new school in Laytown is being judicially reviewed in the High Court leading to a delay in construction. THE prospect of students ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Youtube Version of Prime Time Programme
2008-02-15 20:49:00
Sound and dubbing not great. See post below for links to original source.
Links to Primetime Show on East Meath
2008-02-14 00:10:00
Here they are Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
East Meath on Primetime
2008-02-12 23:55:00
Laytown featured on Prime Time tonight in a piece focussing on the new residential planning guidelines launced by the Greens yesterday. I’ll get a link and clip when it goes on the web so stay tuned. To be honest my gut feeling in all this is that we are doomed if this is all we have ...
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 ...
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 ...
Senator Hannigan Calls for East Meath Local Authority
2007-09-21 00:41:00
Newly elected Senator, Dominic Hannigan has called for the establishment of an East Meath local authority in this week’s (September 19) Drogheda Indo. He says that the Meath County Council Administration and elected members operating out of Navan and Duleek are too far removed from the situation on the ground in East Meath. He also ...
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 ...
Odd coverage of Laytown school opening in the papers
2007-09-04 20:57:00
Strange that the Indo and the Irish Times would have verbatim reports on the Laytown School opening yesterday, even down to the reports of adorable little boys wearing superman outfits. Sounds like someone did a PR job on it. Click here for the Indo and the Irish Times coverage is below. All bets off as school opens ...
Laytown School - Let?s feel happy
2007-09-04 00:41:00
What’s the betting that the local papers will be full of grinning politicians at the “opening” of the new school in Laytown. Thomas Byrne to the forefront “delivering” on his “committment” to the area. Hypocrites. These people should come with a health warning: They are supposed to help us and represent us, not to f**k us up. These ...
F**ked Schools
2007-09-03 22:50:00
We recently blogged about “revelations” that there are 100,000 more primary school places needed within the next decade. This it seems, in some quarters, is one of the mysteries of the modern era, somewhat up there with the mystery of where all the houses came from, like the school figures “they could never have been ...
Laytown School Saga Grinds On
2007-09-02 11:08:00
On cue, and as predicted, Deputy Thomas Byrne, TD, representative for some of the voters of Meath East is associating himself with the “opening” of the temporary school in Laytown. This is a school with which the new TD has had virtually no involvement for the simple reason that he was not a TD, councillor, ...
School places revelation
2007-08-29 21:52:00
Well according to the Indo today it has suddenly dawned on someone somewhere that there is a school crisis. “100,000 new pupils to spark crisis for schools”, the headline states. What’s with the sparking. In East Meath there are 100’s of kids being educated in prefabs, there hasn’t been a permanent classroom built since 1974 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
Why is the Irish State hostile to education?
2007-06-04 12:32:00
The more I learn about education in Ireland, the more I am convinced that the Irish state is in fact hostile to education. How else can you explain the complete lack of provision of an education system to match population growth. It seems to be happening all over the country. We already know about the ...
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 ...
F**ked Country
2007-05-31 12:18:00
What a bizarre country. Three stories from this week. Firstly they want to jail parents of kids not going to school. Maybe they should try to find out what the problem is rather than locking already disadvantaged people up. At the same time they still can’t figure out how to build another school in a rapidly ...
More Comment
2007-05-28 16:54:00
Again from Harry McGee But Fianna Fail won the ground war, and won it hands-down. The party always seems to be ahead of the posse in terms of tactics and strategy. In the late 1990s it began maximising its chances of getting a seat bounce by ruthlessly minimising its number of candidates. This time round, it ...
Developers Dream in Bettystown
2007-05-26 11:29:00
We already blogged about Noel Dempsey opening the Bettystown “Town Centre” and his comments on the BBC. There was more coverage in the Drogheda Indo, Irish Indo and the Meath Chronicle this week. The coverage was fairly uniform and one sided in all papers where effectively the developer’s press release was reproduced without comment. It ...
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 ...
Lights are on at Laytown School but?
2007-05-06 00:10:00
There is an article in the May issue of the Meath Coaster that made my heart sink. It concerned the completion of safety works at Laytown school with the erection of solar powered flashing safety lights. Why would this make your heart sink you may ask? Well I’ll tell you why. Firstly this is the end ...
Meath Planning Crisis - Laytown Example of Worst case
2007-04-11 00:03:00
Interesing Meath Chronicle article. Navan councillors are worried that the local authority does not have the staff in the planning department to service the planning needs of the town and are fearful that Navan will be the next Laytown. Sad really that the East Meath town should become the role model for bad planning considering ...
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