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if that is true Cork politicans should hang their heads in shame!!! No point in blaming Dublin it is our politicans that are useless!!!!
No doubt they will just stay quiet like they did over the aiport! Martin won’t be heard from for a while.
Used Cork airport for the first time last week and very impressed, but then was flying in last night and still no airbridge in use, eventhough it was raining. It just looks pathetic have this lovely shiny terminal building and then not being able to use the airbridge!!!
@kite wrote:
My understanding of the contaminated land issue as it relates to the Cork Docklands is as follows;
Best practice in this case would require a 3meter skim to be removed and exported for de-contamination. This of course would be very expensive and could make many parts of the Docklands site uneconomic.
CCC are suggesting that a one meter skim be removed and “disposed†of, and backfilled with fresh soil but no one is quite sure what impact (if any) this would have environmentally, or in raising funds from financial intuitions to purchase units that would be built on land that may be classed as dangerous.I would like to post photos of the Cork Docklands johnglas but I am unsure how to do so.
Doesn’t the a lot of the docklands have to be raised anyway due to the effects of future tidal flooding?? Maybe this 1m skimming would work if it doesn’t have bad effects on the environment.
Must admit from the southside this tower is actually growing on me but from my vantage point on the northside it is disappointmenting, how come the northside always gets the raw deal! 🙂
so the same government that said the airport would be debt free are going to help it out if there are any problems in the future!! Cork politicans are a spineless bunch…….and Martin let this happen in his own backyard, how the hell was that muppet voted back in!!
On one side it looks like one of those rock climbing walls. The glass side doesn’t look too bad, but it looks fairly crap from the northside.
And that white thing on top looks like a portacabin. Pity it had potential and looked a lot better in the renders.
@who_me wrote:
The website says 28, but that probably excludes the tall roof garden/gallery which would “kinda” take it up to 30 stories.
And of course the tree house they are putting in as well……that will bring it up to 31 floors!!:D
Needs to be another 10 stories higher, the white thing on top is terrible in reality and in the renders you never see the angle from the photo above. Will reserve full judgement until fully completed but not looking good!
didn’t realise they were flying to Carcassonne either! had only checked the website 2 weeks ago and neither of those were on it as far as I can remember…….good news though!
http://www.finegael.ie/News/index.cfm/type/details/pkey/653/nkey/33339
Of course they didn’t do anything!!! If you want to contact our esteemed Enterprise minister to vent your frustration try michealmartintd@eircom.net probably never looks at it!!
What exactly are the NRA doing in Cork at the moment besides the Mitchelstown bypass?? Nothing as far as I can see, and also announced yesterday that Mallow (government designated hub town) will not get its relief road because the land was zoned for housing and no corridor was left!!!!!
just looking at that website and it seems the Mitchelstown bypass is the only one currently under construction, the rest are in design stage but no funding………so in essence only one major road project is underway in Cork, along with the airport fiasco, the midleton line delays……it makes you wonder what in hell we are getting from this government transport and development wise!!!
which brings me to the point of questions and answers (tuesday night), there was a guy on not sure of his name but think he was an economist, who basically said the spatially strategy is a joke, agreed, but also that Dublin is the only viable centre in Ireland due to crtical mass and that everything should be centred there!! Any thoughts on this?? Is Cork really following false hopes or have our hopes not been realised due to government ineptitude??
It seems to me that government publicly stated and private policy are two different things!!
@Leesider wrote:
2 developemnts I was looking forward to that have got planning but have gone ahead yet, Paul Kenny’s Patrick’s Quay development and the Water St development, is there any news as to when they will be starting?
Also has anything come of the building for Clontarf St?
stop fighting over a decision that’s not due til 2nd Nov and answer my questions 😉
2 developemnts I was looking forward to that have got planning but have gone ahead yet, Paul Kenny’s Patrick’s Quay development and the Water St development, is there any news as to when they will be starting?
Also has anything come of the building for Clontarf St?
@Pug wrote:
I’m not defending M Martin in the slightest but every TD writing back to you is great but what action did they actually take? Writing letters is easy, local councillors minutes seem to consist of how they “write to the minister to express their outrage” at something. Nothing actually seems to happen though. I will happily write letters to people for the money and expenses that councillors get.
Of course nothing was done! 😮 😉
@Pug wrote:
Couldnt the council have made a submission re tax incentives ages ago? how many TD’s do we have for Cork? what are they doing? Michael MArtin is claiming all headlines on it as Minister for Enterprise
A few years ago I wrote an email to all of our elected TDs saying that they should get together as a united force if they ever wanted Cork to develop to its full potential, examples at the time were the new terminal at the airport, the kinsale flyover and the pathetic budget for city of culture 2005! Every single one of them replied except one Mr. Michael Martin……..suppose he was a bit too busy to reply to trivial matters
Ryanair has announced another 6 routes out of Dublin which brings the number of Ryanair routes from there to 81, fair play but Cork airport should really try to get a piece of the action how many Ryanair routes do we have…….2!!
