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Ballina road blockage/protest last night 30-07-12

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    #32
    finisklin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭finisklin


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    Because I have very little interest in anything she has to say beyond pointing out her hypocrisy.

    That's a nice artificial distinction you've drawn in order to justify RCW getting all outraged about health and safety where one party is concerned and completely ignoring it where the other is concerned.

    I think it's pretty obvious that the actual distinction is that she complains about behaviour from people she disagrees with while ignoring similar or worse behaviour from people she agrees with. It's called "hypocrisy".

    When she starts loudly demanding traffic management plans from the people who illegally and deliberately (as opposed to accidentally) block roads, be sure to let me know.

    I was being sarcastic and the only reason I linked her was that her point makes sense - Mayo Co Co issued the special permit to Shell and it appears that they didn't do their homework. This shows that Mayo Co Co are answerable to no one, which is why none of the other parties/councillors bothered their arses to criticse the hand that feeds them.

    Which begs the questions - who is looking after joe public and safeguarding them? Is that not where our taxes are going? Fortunately no member of the public was injured but locals were severly discommoded courtesy of our efficient public servants.

    I am sure there will be plenty of other councillors slamming the protesters and not Peter Hynes. By the same logic that's hypocrisy.

    As I said banana republic......


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    #33
    artyeva
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    the lorry's out btw. earlier this afternoon.


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    #34
    finisklin
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    Looks like the way in which the council does it's business is being challenged further in relation to this. Excerpt from the paper of record.

    Meanwhile, local residents have questioned the ability of the boggy road, and the narrow old bridge, to withstand the weight of heavy removal vehicles.

    Mary Corduff, who lives in Rossport, a village cut-off for a time earlier this week due to the incident, has challenged the local authority’s assertion that the proper permits existed for this 170-tonne lorry to cross the tiny bridge at Glenamoy.

    She said a council engineer told her that this bridge had not been surveyed. Reportedly, the jack-knifed lorry proceeded to the Glenamoy crossroads after it failed to make a turn to its destination at Aughoose, the site for the subsea tunnel works that will connect the raw gas to the inland refinery.

    “This whole fiasco is further proof that this community is under siege and has had valid worries for 12 years about Corrib gas. We cannot trust the people in authority and there is no transparency,” Ms Corduff said.

    Spokesman for Pobal Chill Chomáin, John Monaghan, claimed two of An Bord Pleanála’s conditions for granting planning permission for the controversial project had been flouted.

    “Condition 21 stipulates that all roads affected directly and indirectly by the project must be surveyed and Condition 13 states that relevant information must be in the public domain. Over the last few days residents have been given the run-around over the special permits granted for this operation,” Mr Monaghan said.

    From here


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    #35
    Graciefacey
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    finisklin wrote: »
    Looks like the way in which the council does it's business is being challenged further in relation to this. Excerpt from the paper of record.

    Meanwhile, local residents have questioned the ability of the boggy road, and the narrow old bridge, to withstand the weight of heavy removal vehicles.

    Mary Corduff, who lives in Rossport, a village cut-off for a time earlier this week due to the incident, has challenged the local authority’s assertion that the proper permits existed for this 170-tonne lorry to cross the tiny bridge at Glenamoy.

    She said a council engineer told her that this bridge had not been surveyed. Reportedly, the jack-knifed lorry proceeded to the Glenamoy crossroads after it failed to make a turn to its destination at Aughoose, the site for the subsea tunnel works that will connect the raw gas to the inland refinery.

    “This whole fiasco is further proof that this community is under siege and has had valid worries for 12 years about Corrib gas. We cannot trust the people in authority and there is no transparency,” Ms Corduff said.

    Spokesman for Pobal Chill Chomáin, John Monaghan, claimed two of An Bord Pleanála’s conditions for granting planning permission for the controversial project had been flouted.

    “Condition 21 stipulates that all roads affected directly and indirectly by the project must be surveyed and Condition 13 states that relevant information must be in the public domain. Over the last few days residents have been given the run-around over the special permits granted for this operation,” Mr Monaghan said.

    From here
    Hmm Mary corduff, any relation to the renegade Willie corduff!


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    #36
    artyeva
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    Graciefacey wrote: »
    Hmm Mary corduff, any relation to the renegade Willie corduff!

    why 'renegade'?


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    Chiparus
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    The dredging ship now the tunneling machine , one wonders is the project jinxed?


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    #38
    oscarBravo
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    artyeva wrote: »
    why 'renegade'?
    It doesn't seem an entirely inaccurate description of someone who was jailed for contempt of court.


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    #39
    nuac
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    irishgeo wrote: »
    its a wonder they didnt bring them by sea.

    I'd agree that might have been a better option, altho there would be a fair b it of windage on things that high.

    E.g. pontoons for Rossaveal Harbour were brought from Holland on a barge


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    Graciefacey
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    artyeva wrote: »
    Graciefacey wrote: »
    Hmm Mary corduff, any relation to the renegade Willie corduff!

    why 'renegade'?
    Because he is one?


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    mickdw
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    Graciefacey wrote: »
    Hmm Mary corduff, any relation to the renegade Willie corduff!

    She would be the wife and also the one who sat in her van blocking one of the turning spaces that they needed to use for turning the trucks. She then claimed willie had run off down the field with the keys so they couldnt move it. She later reported him missing when he failed to return to move the van. This is the typical type of time wasting nonsense that is going on there yet she had the cheek to be complaining about being cut off due to the truck.
    I believe she was also out complaining how people had a right to go the road freely, yet they have been purposely blocking the road for the last 10 years while this issue, which down to poor management and should not have happened, couldnt be described as deliberate.


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