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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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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. ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
Meath Councillor Interacts With ?The Youth?
2008-04-16 10:06:00 There was an interesting confrontation between FF Councillor Nick Killian, chairman of Meath County Council and local youths in Ratoath. Interesting because it captured a robust exchange between the councillor and the youths which culminated in Killian doing a “John Prescott” and lunging for one of the teenagers after been called a fat bastard after ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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. ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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.
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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 ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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.
By: EastMeath.Org
Incompetent Meath County Council
2007-05-06 00:13:00 Top three hits on a Google Search for “incompetent Meath County Council”. Lot’s more to come.
By: EastMeath.Org
Meath County Council wastes Millions in East Meath
2007-04-26 20:02:00 Meath County Council is spending more than ?10M to upgrade the Duleek to Julianstown road. At the same time the village of Julianstown has to suffer under traffic volumes 6 times in excess of the capacity. A bypass of Julianstown is worth in the region of ?20M to the East Meath economy but the council ...
By: EastMeath.Org
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