Today An Bord Pleanála rejected the Dublin Port Company’s application to infill and develop over 95 acres of the inner bay of Dublin.
Welcoming the decision, Chair of the Dublin Bay Watch Councillor Gerry Breen commented “Hopefully this decision will see the end of the 40 year folly of the Port Company’s attempt to infill the Bay. Now we can turn instead to shaping a vision for the Bay which accords with the hopes and ambitions of the people of Dublin.” Read More…
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I was stranded in Brussels on Thursday last due to the cancellation of flights. I eventually made my way with Eurostar to London yesterday morning and then onto Dublin via trains, boats, and Holyhead. I arrivd with a group to Dublin Airport two days late to collect my car. Three others and I discovered that the DAA Dublin Airport Authority was waiving the additional charges for car parking. In my case, this amounted to €80.
Having witnessed Eurostar’s increasing ticket prices online from €220 to over €660 in the space of a few hours on Thursday, I have to credit the DAA for the policy not to impose additional charges for car parking on stranded passengers. Read More…
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The Health Service Executive (HSE) has to move against all Head Shops with existing legislation, so states Councillor Gerry Breen who is currently Chair of the Dublin City Policing Committee. Under the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 and Amendment 2004 it is an offence to sell tobacco products without first registering with the Office of Tobacco Control. Read More…
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With recent corporate governance disasters in Dublin Docklands Development Authority, FAS, and Tallaght Hospital; it is time to address the corporate governance of many public bodies with practical commonsense solutions. So argues Councillor Gerry Breen…. Read More…
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At today’s meeting of the Dublin City Joint Policing Committee, it was agreed to write to fouragencies asking them to give special focus to head shops.
The agencies are: Read More…
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Today the owner of the premises that houses the D3 Head Shop in Clontarf obtained a court ruling that the tenant had breached the lease in opening a head shop in the premises.
The head shop opened last Wednesday 17th March and the windows were put at 12.30am on Friday last. On Saturday over 400 local residents protested outside the premises…. Read More…
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“Since noon yesterday, I have received the following emails from two worried fathers about receiving passports: Read More…
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At the monthly November Dublin City Council meeting this evening, Dublin City Councillors agreed by 35 votes to 11, to suspend the evening busgate at College Green from the 18th November to the 18th January 2010. Alongside this will be the provision of 1,380 free on-street car parking spaces from 2pm on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday up to Christmas in the city centre. The scheduled 6 month review of the busgate due in January 2010 will be pushed back to June 2010.
Welcoming the move Councillor Gerry Breen commented
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Councillor Gerry Breen reopened Oral Hearing of the Port Company’s application to infill part of Dublin Bay. This accused the Dublin Port Company of trying to flog a Trojan Horse to An Bord Pleanála.
In their application and at the initial part of the Oral Hearing in September, the Port Company stated that future ship sizes would be 2,000 TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units).
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Today at the initial session of the reopened Oral Hearing on the Dublin Port’s application to infill over 52 acres of the inner north Bay,Dublin Bay Watch told the Port Company to get its act together before trying to gain further infills of Dublin Bay.
In its submission, Dublin Bay Watch outlined that if the Port Company doubled its container productivity it still would not reach the current productivity achieved in Belfast Port… Read More…
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