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did u get attacked by a flower when u were younger? but i totally agree with you. i don’t often get to dublin but i must say when i do those f**king things annoy the crap outa me. i see no need for street traders at all. let them get a property or another business. why do they get to set up for free? molly malone my f**king arse.
i mean u have lots more office/retail space there than is being used so feck them in there.instead of getting in people’s way when walking.3 quid in my time…yeah! those were the days…standing in the freezing cold but kept warm by brandy or whiskey!!!! and then drinking in the pubs hoping they won’t ask for id!!! ha,ha… i can’t believe that they reduced their own capacity…daft! still ..
i was watching bolton play last week ( i think in the carling cup) and i thought that the reebok looks very similiar..execpt of course they have 2 tiers at the ends..yeah..i think it was more in hope than anything…probably trying to get the gov to fast track it knowing that if it slips from the public’s mind then they might not whereas if they donb’t now they run the risk of pissing off all the football and rugby fans who are voters…
i think that maybe my office…someone else sent around an internal email saying to vote so everyone logged on at the same time
no argument there but i still think that to stop their preferred route with an excuse like a mussel is stupid. and in greater numbers..well we might kill them and eat them… and following rail is a good idea(if it’s straight) as it is a transport corridor anyway… and any mussels would have been killed years ago..
professioinal advice from whom? and fair enough they should know eu directives.. but for just a poxy mussel then nope i can’t agree with that…life will survive possibly 10 metres away….
a freshwater mussel!!!!! oh! panic…lets save that…. christ that’s brutal… a poxy mussel is stopping development…. similiar to a snail stopping a housing project in clare…. FUCK SAKE PEOPLE…. some perspective…
from the indo today!!!!!!!!
Costs pile up as court stalls M50 plan again
Friday January 30th 2004TAXPAYERS face an extra bill of €1m-a-month after the M50 motorway project at Carrickmines was halted again following yesterday’s High Court decision.
The Government is to rush through emergency legislation to complete the project after the court ruled it had acted beyond its powers.
But for every month the project is now delayed taxpayers will have to pay an extra €1m as builders cannot move onto the site, the National Roads Authority revealed.
There are 500 workers and contractors waiting to move on to the site and the bulk of the extra costs will go in salaries and huge overheads.
The court yesterday overturned Environment Minister Martin Cullen’s consent for works involving the destruction or removal of medieval remains at Carrickmines Castle.
The consent meant that at long last, after years of objections, work could finally get under way at the site.
But the court overturned government orders of 1996 and 2002 which changed the system allowing work which could destroy national monuments.
The decision means the Government will now have to draw up new legislation to complete the motorway – or face having an M50 motorway with a hole in the middle at Carrickmines.
They could bring in emergency legislation relatively quickly but it would be open to renewed challenge. A more detailed set of laws could take up to nine months.
NRA spokesman Michael Egan said he hoped the Government would press ahead with the necessary legislation needed to finish the South Eastern Motorway.
Eamon O’Hare, transportation officer with Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co Council, said he hoped the Government would do whatever was necessary to empower them to get on to the site and complete the project.
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Chamber of Commerce last night called for emergency legislation to solve the issue.
Chamber president Michael Johnson said: “This is a national issue. We must have legislation in place to enable the national strategic infrastructure projects obtain planning permission within a reasonable timeframe.”
He said the motorway had been the subject of “far too many delays”.
The Green Party welcomed the decision which party heritage spokesman Ciaran Cuffe said meant that the minister could not “act as judge and jury” for Carrickmines Castle.
“For the last year and a half we have been calling on Mr Cullen to bend the road and save the castle. His intransigence is causing delays and leading to an increase in costs. A compromise could still save much more of the castle and allow the road to be built.”
yea..i know that section…the great irish blunders… my mother has said to me ( only once i have to admit as she got reprimanded) that we can’t run a country and we should hand it back to the queen and apoligise for the state that it’s in.
i could never understand the traffic lights on a roundabout. maybe a big one. the is one where the m50 meets the m? to galway..sorry don’t know it’s number..i think it’s the n4/7 but i think that works quite well..well it did anytime i drove through it.
