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Planning & Environment
Hanrahan: the epic battle continues
- 23 March 2006
- clare ogrady walsh
The revival of the memory of heroic battle of the Hanrahan family against Merck Sharpe and Dohme may cause difficulties for the Strategic Infrastructure Bill about to go through the Dáil. By Clare O'Grady Walshe
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'Knightsbridge' for Dublin 4?
- 22 February 2006
- Matt Cooper
One man who must hope more than most that the Lansdowne Road redevelopment is not scuppered by objections from local residents to its size is property developer Sean Dunne.
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'Suas' on the 'squays'
- 09 February 2006
- michael smith
Why stop at cable-cars? Michael Smith proposes a fully-fledged ski resort for Dublin
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Rossport 'ready for attack by State'
- 09 February 2006
2006 looks set to be the make-or-break year in the struggle between Rossport, Shell and the Government, with locals expecting riot police in their community this summer. Micheál Ó Seighin, one of the Rossport Five, spoke to William Hederman
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Recent 'highlights'
- 12 January 2006
- Vincent Browne
These are just a few of the findings published in the major scientific journals during the past three months.
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Danger in Irish waters
- 05 January 2006
A forthcoming survey on otters may reveal high levels of a chemical harmful to human health in Irish water. By Shay Fennelly
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Humanity's ecological struggle
- 08 December 2005
- George Monibot
I want to take a moment to remind you of where we have come from. For the first three million years of human history, we lived according to circumstance. Our lives were ruled by the happenstances of ecology. We existed, as all animals do, in fear of hunger, predation, weather and disease. For the following few thousand years, after we had grasped the rudiments of agriculture and crop storage, we enjoyed greater food security, and soon destroyed most of our non-human predators. But our lives were ruled by the sword, the axe and the spear. The primary struggle was for land. We needed it not just to grow our crops but also to provide our sources of energy – grazing for our horses and bullocks, wood for our fires. By George Monbiot
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Massive payments to politicians and a huge rezoning
- 08 December 2005
- Vincent Browne
Payments of €500,000 to councillors coincided with the rezoning of lands that have now become the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. As a direct consequence, an already disadvantaged community has been further disadvantaged. The Planning Tribunal has commenced public hearings that will involve 88 witnesses and tens of thousands of documents – unless prevented by the Courts. By Vincent Browne
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Community: victim of planning corruption
- 08 December 2005
Neilstown was originally mooted for a town centre development. But this idea later moved to Liffey Valley. Neilstown has suffered ever since
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