The mooted new restrictions on learner drivers are excessive. A minimum of 20 hours from an approved trainer is unnecessary and expensive. It assumes that most people are incoordinated and have poor spacial appreciation. Special interest advocates from Driving Schools only feed the impression of puffing up your own interests and the honey pot ?700 cost of the tuition.
Ireland’s first Local Authority ‘Rent-to-Buy’launch takes place at Block B, Herberton, Rialto, Dublin 8, with 16 properties available to view to people on the City Council’s Affordable Housing list.
The Scheme will consist of 91 units in total for rent at three locations in
the city. The other locations are at Prospect Hill, Glasnevin with 64
properties, and Park View, Dublin 11 with 11 properties. The 91 units
comprise a mixture of one, two and three bed roomed apartments and
duplexes.
Relatively good news from an organisation that called the economic madness in Ireland right.
If I am elected to the Oireachtas ever, I will make it my business to
monitor the whole immigration and asylum system to bring consistency,
efficiency and humanity into the hidden decisions made by officialdom in our name as Irishmen. Again, secrecy and unaccountability are the key to abuse of power.
I am ashamed of what is happening in Mosney to some of the residents. Look at TV3, Vincent Browne, on 6th July and hear some of the abuse of people.
Has Dermot Ahern no shame?
Somalia, Mogadishu, Congo etc were all mentioned. I got so upset and angry that I turned off the television. I CANT STAND INHUMANITY. BASTARDS!
Nigeria
In 2000, there were only 450,000 land line users in Nigeria but by 2010 there are now 77.3 million active mobile phones which with double sim cards etc represents about 37.8% of the 150 million population.
Between 2002 and 2007, the mobile phone market in Africa grew by 49.3% In Asia the market grew by 27.4% in the same period.
The bright advertising panels in Dublin have been a major success. The
removal of unsightly billboards and hoardings and the re-ordering of the
cityscape is a credit to the management and the councillors in the last
council term. Publishing the details make it more difficult for political
opportunists and fantasists to claim credit for work carried out by the city
officials and debated and passed by the last City Council.
GERRY THORNLEY ON RUGBY:
EAMON RYAN is no fool. In seeking to vastly expand the number of sports events to be screened free-to-air on terrestrial television, the Minister for Communications has done his research. He has also identified a problem regarding the exclusivity of television audiences on pay-per-view. Sport should never become too smug about this and sometimes governments need to keep an eye on them.
Minister Ryan is also on familiar terrain. He attended Gonzaga, played in UCD and his family, including an uncle who played for Munster, is steeped in the game. Thus, when he recently proposed that Ireland?s Six Nations games and Irish Heineken Cup games be ring-fenced on free-to-air television, it was all the more heartfelt.
Minister Ryan cites audience figures for Leinster quarter-finals which were on terrestrial television and then on pay-per-view, which drew audiences of 250,000 and 70,000 respectively. He points to the Munster-Biarritz final of
2006 which drew 500,000 viewers in Ireland, and the 2008 decider which attracted just 100,000, and countless examples from other sports.
He wants his son and a generation of young fans to be able to watch these matches without going to the pub or a clubhouse, not to mention pensioners and others, and these are all valid concerns ? although the spin-off to clubs and pubs shouldn?t be overlooked.
Hospital Boards are supposed to order policy to direct the Chief Executive
in the management of the institution. In Public Hospitals, the Minister for
Health is responsible for Board appointments even if some members are
nominees of Unions, Medical, Nursing or other staff, medical school or
university interests.
With the proliferation of staff at higher grades in the HSE in general since
its establishment, has an independent Lean Study on the administration ever
been commissioned?
Dr John Barton is a very honourable man. He is inquisitive, rational, well-read and incisive. The debunking of myth is a most important activity in medicine. Since the deaths of Dr Petr Skrabanek and Professor James McCormick of the Community Health Department at Trinity College Dublin, there are no systematic iconoclasts in Irish Medicine. John to some extent fills some of that gap. He is the most knowledgible person in Fine Gael on health service systems and has taken a keen interest in the subject for some time. I have also taken an interest in this subject for some time. The letter he wrote to the Irish Examiner (Friday 30th April)is to his usual high standard. It helps to address some of the fallacies associated with large Irish hospitals and Health Service Executive policy towards them. As long as lean studies are not carried out on the administrative superstructures in Irish Hospitals, the overstaffing of middle management will remain endemic and probably worsen. Managers managing managers managing other line managers , all with secretaries! Anyway, Dr Barton’s letter follows and is self explanatory.
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Hospitals policy the legacy of a failed political system.
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Below is a copy of an e-mail from a local resident who is opposing a Meteor mast on a pub on Ballygall Road in East Finglas/Glasnevin area. It shows what I was referring to previously about the local Labour Party which actually disappoints me because this is not the activity of the usual Labour people in other constituencies. However, it is consistent with the populist anti-intellectual behaviour obvious for many years which is electorally highly successful. It is a microcosm of what is wrong with Irish politicians and Irish politics. It makes relevant Churchill’s observations in the quote on Fermanagh and Tyrone.
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