I raised this on the adjournment with the Department of Justice on Friday evening. I wanted an assurance that this station would not be closed. I appear to have got this assurance. This is the answer below. Read More…

Councillor Mary O’Shea has made the following submission on the location of this mast. We are totally opposed to it and will help the local community in any way we can.

“An Bord Pleanála granted planning permission on 23 June 2003 for a 45 metre high telecommunications tower to replace an existing 20 metre high slim-line lattice work telecommunications mast and cabin at Unit 1 Slaney Road, Dublin Industrial Estate, Dublin 11. Read More…

Rate Your Politician have launched their site in Ireland.It is available at www.r8yourpolitician.ie. One of the first items on the site is an article from me on the role and limitations of the internet in relation to politics and public services. It is available here.

Last night was a really busy night. We had the final stages of the social welfare bill in the Seanad and I had a group of supporters in for Christmas drinks. I was then asked to do the Late Debate on RTE. Read More…

This morning, on the Order of Business, I supported the request from the new Governor of the Irish Central Bank for a public inquiry into the banking crisis. The parrallel the new Governor made to this request was the 9/11 commission in the US. My colleague Senator Fitzgerald pointed out that a public inquiry is taking place into the causes of the second Gulf War. Thank God, we weren’t involved in a war but the effect of the banking crisis has been to cause a national emergency.

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