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Poolbeg Incinerator – October 2011

Question to City Manager City Council Meeting 03/10/2011

Q16. COUNCILLOR BILL TORMEY

To ask the City Manager for an opinion on the likely course of
development of the Poolbeg Incinerator and the current tonnage of
incinerator waste likely to be transported there for incineration?
How does the gate price compare with similar facilities in the UK,
Holland and Germany?


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Stroke Rehab Unit in Louth Hospital in Dundalk

Newly Refurbished 8-bed Stroke Rehabilitation Unit Opens in Louth
County Hospital

The newly refurbished Stroke Rehabilitation Unit in Louth County
Hospital recently opened to patients.

The unit, which first opened as a six-bed stroke rehabilitation
facility in August 2010, required a complete modernisation and
re-adaption process, having increased its capacity to eight-beds in
February 2011.

The refurbishment project began in April 2011 and took four months to
complete at a cost of approximately €350,000 – patients were
temporarily accommodated on a different ward while the renovation was
being completed.


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Political philanderers past and present

For all that Bill Clinton might be defined by his marital
transgressions, on the political stage he is far from alone: from
earliest times, the dark arts have abounded with philanderers.

A previous White House incumbent, John F Kennedy, managed to keep his
serial womanising out of the public eye during his lifetime; only
after his assassination did the truth emerge.

In An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, author Robert
Dallek revealed how President JFK, who claimed to get a headache if he
didn’t have sex at least once a day, bedded countless party girls,
starlets and White House staffers in an attempt to satisfy his


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Sue Grabbit and Runne for divorces?!

Law and Order
The top divorce lawyer, her big name clients, and ‘marked up’ bills
Baroness Shackleton, Britain’s highest-profile divorce lawyer, has
increased the bills of celebrity clients beyond the time she recorded
having spent on their cases, The Daily

By Holly Watt, Andrew Hough and Heidi Blake

7:00AM BST 01 Oct 2011

Madonna and Sir Paul McCartney appear to have been charged hundreds of
thousands of pounds more than the hourly rate would have demanded,
documents show, a practice known as “marking up”.


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A&E in Drogheda

Motion:-

This Forum acknowledges the distress caused by overcrowding in our A&E
facilities and calls for an action plan to be put in place to deal
with the chronic overcrowding in OLOL Hospital A&E services.


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No to Norris

I am very clear on David Norris

1. He has said that he does not want an age of consent to sexual
relations but wants judges to adjudicate on these matters. If there is
no law, how can there be a crime of statutory rape?

2. He is sanguine to say the least about pederasty. Men and boys,
youths and adolescents in ancient Greece.


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Hampton Wood, Finglas

Question to the Area Manager                    North West Area Committee
Meeting 16/09/11

Q.2     Councillor Bill Tormey

To ask the Traffic Advisory Group to consider a solution to speeding
cars on the R104 at Hampton Wood. There have been many car accidents
on this road over recent times.

Reply

The R104 St Margarets Road runs east/west along the boundary with
Fingal County Council.  Fingal are responsible for the management of
this section of St. Margarets Road. This request will be referred to
Fingal County Council Traffic Division.

Contact:   traffic@dublincity.ie

Problems with Rovers

Tommy and Stanley – will want to go to all the games – home and away.
Is that ooch in the bank for me?

Keep Rovers At Milltown KRAM

Toughest teams Cork Celtic – Ray Cowhie and John Coughlan. Bunny Fullam with Drumcondra

Best Players – Frank O’Neill, Pat Byrne and Johnny Fullam

Greatest Craic in League – Roddy Collins

Superkalifragelisticexpealidocious – Damian Richardson

Most missed in LOI – Ollie Byrne and Tony O’Neill

Best refs – Pat Kelly, Pip Meighan, John Carpenter and Paddy Daly

Come on the Hoops. There’s only one Rovers! Dunne Keogh Courtney Nolan Farrell Fullam O’Neill Mooney Bailham Ambrose and O’Connell

irishtimes.com – Last Updated: Friday, August 26, 2011, 15:48 Fixture list tempers Rovers delight Related

Valiant Rovers realise their European dream | 26/08/2011

Soccer: Shamrock Rovers will have an arduous trip to Russia to face Rubin Kazan on November 30th after the fixture list for the Europa League group stages was promptly hammered out in Monaco this afternoon. Delight at being drawn with Tottenham in Group A will have been tempered by the prospect of an icy reception 500 miles east of Moscow and a five-game wait for the visit of Spurs.

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Keep pace with Dublin City

Tom Coffey probably does not want this broadcast but here goes. It is a clear message to the cost base of the city centre, I support the
city centre as THE place for business. Lets make sure it turns round.

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