Written by Foras Teamhrach
Potentially toxic waste is being transported for dumping in a sewer near the Phoenix Park because the €500,000 plant built to treat it "doesn’t work", say councillors. It has emerged that a treatment facility that was meant to deal with the waste at source in Balleally landfill is not fit for the job and [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Word Press Tags: Louisiana, Gulf Oil Spill, Deepwater Disaster, BP, Deepwater Oil Spill “The ecological destruction of the oil disaster in the Gulf is perhaps most aptly embodied in the pictures of brown pelicans made lifeless by a thick coating of toxic sludge. However, the true toll may spread far beyond these dreadful images. [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Word Press Tags: ICTU, Croke Park Deal, Croke Park Agreement, SIPTU “The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU)’s public service committee voted last week to formally agree a four-year strike ban, wholesale rationalisations in public services, unknown thousands of “voluntary” job losses and a continued pay freeze. The so-called Croke Park agreement is the [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
A major operation is under way to finish a section of the new M7 motorway after part of the road collapsed into a bog. Road authorities last night confirmed that the final section of the Limerick to Nenagh bypass would be completed by the end of the year. The €425m road — which was due [...]
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Word Press Tags: M3, M3 Motorway, Pyrite, Pyrite in Irish Homes, Irish Property, Commercial Court A Commercial Court Judge has ordered a ban on naming more than 25 new housing estates where residents have complained that their homes have been damaged due to the use of pyrite. To prevent “panic” among homeowners, the Commercial Court [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Follow the link below which provides the names and emails of the members of the Health & Children committee. Contact them ask ask them to stop this piece of legislation which will facilitate the likely closure of St. Luke’s Cancer Hospital. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/96981 The bill itself can be downloaded at the following link: http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/bills28/bills/2010/2510/b2510d.pdf [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Word Press Tags: Merkel, Sarkozy, EU, EU Treaties, Debt France and German will put forward proposals to strip European Union countries of their voting rights if they breach deficit rules. If these were implemented, Governments which breach European Union budgetary guidelines would have their EU voting rights "suspended" to prevent any resurgence of the [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Word Press Tags: HSE, Minister for Health, Mary Harney, St. Lukes’s Cancer Hospital A bill is being rushed through the Oireachtas, which will enable the abolition of the Board of St. Luke’s Cancer Hospital and its transfer to the HSE. St Luke’s and St Anne’s Hospital is the primary national centre for radiotherapy treatment [...]
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Word Press Tags: Ireland, Austerity Measures, McCarthy Report, Colm McCarthy, IMF, EU “Ben May, a European economist at Capital Economics in London, warned it would be tough for Ireland to meet the 3% target by 2014 because economic growth rates would unlikely rise back up to historical levels.” Historical, levels of growth, that is, not [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Word Press Tags: East Timor, Shell Oil, Australia “A protracted dispute between Australia and East Timor over the Greater Sunrise gas and oil project in the Timor Sea has intensified in recent weeks. The Australian Labor government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has backed the April 29 announcement of a plan by the project’s [...]
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