Carrigaline Western Relief Road contract awarded to BAM
Carrigaline Road Contract: Cork County Council has just awarded the construction contract for the delivery of the Carrigaline Western...
cmguerin0
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
Hospital Waiting Lists during 2020
“Unacceptable”: over 50,000 on trolleys in year of the pandemic 2020: At least 53,325 patients went without beds in Irish hospitals in...
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cmguerin0
- Aug 19, 2021
- 4 min
August 19th Bulletin: State Lands and Funds to be Gifted to Developers
In fact, remember, that’s what we did during the Celtic Tiger and it led to an enormous crash in the economy. It wasn’t that there was a...
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cmguerin0
- Aug 9, 2021
- 4 min
Large scale Navan Road Tree Removal Planned for BusConnects
Navan Road residents have launched a protest against imminent plans by the NTA to slash 140 trees from the area as part of a new...
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cmguerin0
- Jun 27, 2021
- 5 min
A Scottish song on Rathlin Island
Fear a’ bhàta (or ‘The boatman’) is a Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) song of heart break which is very popular in Scotland, "among English...
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cmguerin0
- Jun 4, 2021
- 2 min
Seán Treacy remembered
Learn more about the revolutionary who helped to ignite Ireland's War of Independence.
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cmguerin0
- Apr 19, 2021
- 1 min
Phoenix Park Walls damaged by OPW North Road Works
The North Road works (just inside the Phoenix Park walls) was announced by the Office of Public Works to commence on April 12th last....
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cmguerin0
- Mar 25, 2021
- 60 min
Land Development Agency Bill Committee Debates March 2021
Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage debate - Tuesday, 9th March 2021 - Land Development Agency Bill: Chairman: " I...
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cmguerin0
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
The N28 Cork Motorway
M28 Motorway - Cork Irish Examiner Press Statement: "The way has been cleared for one of the biggest infrastructure plans in recent Cork...
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cmguerin0
- Mar 14, 2021
- 3 min
N22 Baile Bhuirne to Macroom Road Development (Cork Co. Council Press Release).
"The N22 road is a national primary road in Ireland which goes through counties Kerry and Cork, from Tralee in the west through...
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cmguerin0
- Mar 11, 2021
- 3 min
Land Development Agency will have powers to remove land from local councils
The LDA Eliminates the Local Council Vote Irish Councils will be able to transfer state lands to the Land Development Agency without any...
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cmguerin0
- Mar 9, 2021
- 2 min
Phoenix Park Transport and Mobility Options Study Public Consultation - Deadline this Friday
Phoenix Park Transport and Mobility Options Study Public Consultation From Office of Public Works Published on 4 February 2021 Last...
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cmguerin0
- Mar 9, 2021
- 2 min
The Great Privatisation of Lands Bill - 2nd Stage on Wednesday
This Wednesday, the Land Development Agency Bill goes through its Second Stage in the Oireachtas. Among other measures, it grants a...
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cmguerin0
- Mar 4, 2021
- 4 min
Features of the Land Development Agency Bill
From the 2nd Stage of the Oireachtas Debate on the Land Development Agency Bill - February 18th 2020 “Deputy Mick Barry - " I am sharing...
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cmguerin0
- Feb 20, 2021
- 2 min
Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage Debate
From the Statement by Deputy Thomas Pringle -18th February 2021: 1. " In the overall scheme of things, the Government is not interested...
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cmguerin0
- Feb 19, 2021
- 1 min
Land Development Agency Bill (2021): Stage 2
Today the Land Development Agency Bill goes through its Second Stage in the Oireachtas. This piece of legislation grants a public body...
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cmguerin0
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Cork Port vacates Cork Custom House (1881) to enable hotel development
“The Customs House has been at the heart of the Port of Cork for over 100 years and our move out, while sad in some ways, also heralds a...
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cmguerin0
- Feb 12, 2021
- 2 min
Greens Announce Limerick Road Project costing €58 million
"The road project is going to go ahead, it will going to go ahead from Coonagh to the Knockalisheen junction and see an upgrade of...
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cmguerin0
- Dec 10, 2020
- 4 min
The Significance of Casement’s Putamayo Journal, 1910
Brian Guerin This article was originally published online in November 2006 at http://homepage.eircom.net/~guerin/tfmnov2006.pdf The...
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cmguerin0
- Nov 19, 2020
- 7 min
Planning Bulletin: Dublin, Cork and Kerry
Item 1 - The Old Custom House Cork: 11th November, 2020 - Plans for "Ireland's tallest building" (Irish Examiner) to be built in Cork...
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cmguerin0
- Nov 16, 2020
- 6 min
The National Transport Authority's Cork Transport Plans (I)
Introduction Last August, The National Transport Authority (NTA) proposed a “Luas" light rail line between Ballincollig, a small rural...
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cmguerin0
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
The East Coast of Cork is falling into the sea
Coastal protection works costing €25 million to prevent coastal erosion in parts of East Cork were mothballed 20 years ago and the rate...
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cmguerin0
- Oct 25, 2020
- 5 min
Hallowe'en Customs of Ireland
The Freeman's Journal (30 October 1920) reported that people would play practical jokes such as knock on doors or steal farmers' gates,
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cmguerin0
- Oct 21, 2020
- 14 min
Michael O'Reilly and the longest hunger strike
The Limerick man was one of nine who survived 94 days of a world-famous hunger strike in 1920.
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cmguerin0
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
A beginner's guide to Irish political parties
This video gives context to the modern Irish political parties, north and south. Suitable for those with little contextual knowledge.
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cmguerin0
- Oct 5, 2020
- 4 min
Key Bus Éireann Routes to Cork, Galway and Limerick Axed
The Bus Éireann move is a significant step towards privatisation of the state bus company Bus Éireann has just announced that it will be...
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cmguerin0
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
Destruction of Neo-Gothic Convent of Mercy Chapel in Skibbereen
Cork (Heritage) “The balanced coherent design is complemented by the high quality craftsmanship employed in the execution of the masonry...
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cmguerin0
- Jul 12, 2020
- 8 min
The Dublin Bay Motorway
One estimate stated that it was 5 times the size of the €800 million Dublin Port Tunnel.
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cmguerin0
- Jun 24, 2020
- 2 min
1798 Rebellion Centre to be sold
Wexford County Council will offload Enniscorthy's National 1798 Rebellion Centre, leaving the exhibition with no permanent home.
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cmguerin0
- May 19, 2020
- 6 min
The Irish Bulletin
In 1906 Arthur Griffith compared the communication gap between Ireland and the outside world to a "wall of paper".
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cmguerin0
- May 18, 2020
- 8 min
Nora O'Keeffe and the Irish revolution
The Cumann na mBan activist and publicist was one of many women to the fore of promoting the republican message. In a recent biography of...
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cmguerin0
- May 18, 2020
- 3 min
Shell, the Corrib Gas Field and the Irish Constitution
Article based on letter sent to Irish papers, July 2005 The behaviour of the High Court in jailing the Rossport Five for insisting on...
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cmguerin0
- May 18, 2020
- 4 min
The National Monuments Act 2004
[The Minister] may decide... to order the levelling of Newgrange, the Rock of Cashel, Glendalough, or the Hill of Tara itself...
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cmguerin0
- May 16, 2020
- 3 min
The 1972 Supreme Court Judgement on Tara
A decision delivered by the Supreme Court in 1972 is of lasting significance with regard to what is to be regarded a National Monument.
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cmguerin0
- May 14, 2020
- 4 min
The Tara Case and the Irish Constitution
A 2006 challenge to the construction of the M3 Motorway through the Tara landscape was rejected. During the 1972 proceedings, the State...
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cmguerin0
- May 14, 2020
- 6 min
Morgan Kelly on the Bank Bailout
This article was written in response to Morgan Kelly's piece in the Irish Times of 8 November 2010 entitled 'If you thought the bank...
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