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Nothing for Mayo in 2bn stimulus plan

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    #32
    Royal Legend
    Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭Royal Legend


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Your right its fairly bad when you have to have a Taoiseach from your own county to even get a part of what you should have always been entitled to get:rolleyes:. You obviously don't have those kind of problems.

    Its interesting that the new High speed Fiber transatlantic cable will soon be landing in Mayo and spread from there, and the oil and Gas for the next few decades come from there, a big percentage of the wind energy comes from there, your fisheries and farms are here, the only Irish self funding airport is here, But you the real gombeen begrudges 5 or 6 million worth of sport grants to a county that was starved of any sports funding for decades. Never mind the actual pathetic state of infrastructure here and local counties.
    Bertie one of your locals didn't even use the BMW disavantaged area money assigned from Brussels on the BMW area, he used it on the tens of billions worth of infrastructure spent in the east. Hey, but heaven forbid mayo gets 5 million of a sport grant:eek:

    You really are scrapping the barrels when you complain about a tiny sports grant going to Mayo, which still happens to be way down the counties list for grants even for this year. :rolleyes:Mayo supporters have spend that much in croke park alone in the past 10 years.:mad:

    Every summer people like yourself come down here for your holidays and have the stupidity to complain about the state of the roads and services. Then complain when locals campaign to have those same dangerous roads and infrastructure repaired. Yet you will travel to the Meath match today on multiple motorways that are part funded by Mayo taxpayers, to a city with with infrastructure part funded by Mayo taxpayers, to your local Croke Park "sports facility" which is again part funded by Mayo Taxpayers. What a complete Hypocrite you are.

    You are not living in the only county that has been hard done by, so get off your soapbox about poor disadvantaged Mayo. I live in Waterford City, yes the forgotton city in our opinion. It does'nt even appear on the weather forecast or in RTE's latest diatribe, "Creedons Cities" which covers Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick but for some reason not Waterford.
    We don't have a minister anymore so its back to what it was like before we had a minister, so we get sweet FA.
    My arguement is not whether both Mayo or Waterford are disadvantaged, its that the person that some of you over in the west are declaring as your saviour, made promises that he has not kept and also ran for election on an agenda of honesty and transparancy and that the way politics would be carried out under his government would be beyond reproach.
    So much for that ideal.


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    #33
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    Royal Legend wrote: »
    You are not living in the only county that has been hard done by, so get off your soapbox about poor disadvantaged Mayo. I live in Waterford City, yes the forgotton city in our opinion. It does'nt even appear on the weather forecast or in RTE's latest diatribe, "Creedons Cities" which covers Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick but for some reason not Waterford.
    We don't have a minister anymore so its back to what it was like before we had a minister, so we get sweet FA.
    My arguement is not whether both Mayo or Waterford are disadvantaged, its that the person that some of you over in the west are declaring as your saviour, made promises that he has not kept and also ran for election on an agenda of honesty and transparancy and that the way politics would be carried out under his government would be beyond reproach.
    So much for that ideal    .

    Im no fan of Kenny but Mayo didnt get anything n this stimulus so whats your point? AS for Creedons series, hw bitter are you ffs


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    #34
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Instead of asking for the impossible why not pressure the likes of OMahony to do some work on the Ballagh-Carrick N5


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    #35
    Cosmo Kramer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Cosmo Kramer


    Royal Legend wrote: »
    I live in Waterford City, yes the forgotton city in our opinion. It does'nt even appear on the weather forecast or in RTE's latest diatribe, "Creedons Cities" which covers Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick but for some reason not Waterford.

    Somewhat O/T but that show is covering the four largest cities - I don't see the issue. Waterford and Kilkenny are, in reality, just large towns masquerading as cities.

    Regarding investment for Mayo, I think it's better if it is done under the radar, there are too many people waiting to jump on any announcements for our county because it is where the current Taoiseach is from. Better to get the investment but do it quietly. B'derreen bypass is an example of this.


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    #36
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Instead of asking for the impossible why not pressure the likes of OMahony to do some work on the Ballagh-Carrick N5

    Do what exactly? im sure he has been making representations but hats all he can do


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    #37
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Representations for what, a road that could prove too expensive and therefore cannot be built.?? How pointless. :(

    Read the link and go represent on that route instead. Starting with the Carrick on Shannon Bypass as is clearly explained by the head of the NRA!


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    #38
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    Anybody able to advise me where this by pass starts and finishs,seen the map.Easier to visualise driving this infamously substandard road!:confused:


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    #39
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Its interesting that the new High speed Fiber transatlantic cable will soon be landing in Mayo and spread from there,

    Network redundancy is the important thing -- not any one one line.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    and the oil and Gas for the next few decades come from there,

    Charged at world market rates so at the same price as oil and gas from the middle east.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    a big percentage of the wind energy comes from there,

    Some smaller counties are currently producing more wind energy... http://www.iwea.com/index.cfm/page/_windenergy_onshore

    Deleted User wrote: »
    your fisheries and farms are here,

    Re land: 5,586 km2 (Mayo) of 84,421 km2 (the island of Ireland) = 6.6%.

    Re fish: Mayo does not really rank that well: http://www.marine.ie/NR/rdonlyres/43BF1F38-A158-4882-9DA8-8962FDC52DB5/0/AtlasofCommercialFisheriesAroundIreland09.pdf

    Deleted User wrote: »
    the only Irish self funding airport is here


    It's great that Knock is less of a drain compared to the likes of Galway, Shannon etc, but it is not fully self funding. Here's just one example of €400,000 funding from the state -- found with a quick search of Google.

    Deleted User wrote: »
    ...Mayo supporters have spend that much in croke park alone in the past 10 years.:mad: ...to your local Croke Park "sports facility" which is again part funded by Mayo Taxpayers.

    Croke Park is a national facility.

    It was paid for by the GAA before the state gave any money and, in the end, state funding was far less than 50%.

    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yet you will travel to the Meath match today on multiple motorways that are part funded by Mayo taxpayers, to a city with with infrastructure part funded by Mayo taxpayers, to your local Croke Park "sports facility" which is again part funded by Mayo Taxpayers. What a complete Hypocrite you are.

    Dublin and the nearby counties are widely accepted as net contributors who give more in tax than they get back. Co Dublin alone accounts for over 50% of the tax take.


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    #40
    Mr Cumulonimbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Mr Cumulonimbus


    Ballaghaderreen bypass under way now.


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