DEVELOPER MARK Piggott is looking to demolish the fire damaged Redcourt House in Clontarf, Dublin 3 to make way for apartments, despite a previous planning permission to convert it into apartments.The Victorian property hit the headlines last year when the burned remains of a man were found after a fire.In January this year An Bord Pleanála granted planning permission to convert the 19th century house on Seafield Road East into four apartments as part of a new homes development.A five-storey apartment block with 33 apartments and nine townhouses were also part of his proposal.However, he is now looking to knock what is referred to in the planning application as a "fire gutted and derelict" house and build a new house containing five apartments. He is also proposing another five-storey...
PERMISSION GRANTED to a trio of high profile developers to redevelop the 1960s office block, McConnell House, and to add a seven-storey extension to the Hilton Hotel, both on Charlemont Place, Dublin 2, have been appealed to An Bord Pleanála.Bernard McNamara, Jeremiah O'Reilly and Eamon Sheilds were granted planning permission by Dublin City Council to demolish McConnell House, a five-storey office building previously occupied by McConnell Advertising, and build an eight-storey office building in its place.They also got the go-ahead for an extension to the rear of the Hilton Hotel comprising a conference centre, 34 hotel bedrooms, five meeting rooms, bars, lounges and a health club, increasing the total gross floor area of the hotel to 17,914sq m (192,825sq ft) and the number of bedrooms...
DEVELOPER BRYAN Cullen's plan for an office and medical complex in Sandymount has been approved by Dublin City Council despite 11 objections. After previous attempts to build an upmarket apartment scheme on the site, once occupied by Cerebral Palsy Ireland and a garden centre, Cullen opted for an office scheme of 33 own door units, two consultants rooms and 31 offices in five blocks.In February 2007 An Bord Pleanála refused permission for 40 apartments and four townhouses on the 0.37-hectare site with frontage onto Sandymount Avenue and close to the Dart station.Irish...
MOYLARAGH ROAD Residents has appealed a scheme of over 1,000 homes beside their estate in Balbriggan, Co Dublin. They say it is causing them serious concern due to the high density planned for the site and that the large number of apartments will result in "wholesale rental accommodation" which will lead to a transient population and anti-social behaviour. The residents are "at a loss to understand" how Fingal County Council can justify its decision to grant permission for the scheme.Irish...
THE DUBLIN Docklands Development Authority has said it will face no compensation claims following a High Court ruling which overturned its granting of fast-track planning permission for a €200 million development at North Wall Quay.The authority will today announce new procedures for dealing with fast-track section 25 planning approvals.Last month, Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan ruled that the authority acted outside its powers in approving the development by Liam Carroll's company, North Quay Investments Ltd (NQI).The court found that an earlier agreement between the authority and NQI, under which the company would give land, free of charge, to the authority, gave rise to a "reasonable apprehension of bias" on behalf of the authority in reaching its planning decision.The case was...
DUBLIN IS aiming to become the most accessible city in the world for people with disabilities, the elderly and parents of young children.Dublin City Council and the National Disability Authority (NDA) are to discuss plans at a conference today which they say will make the city the most accessible internationally by the end of the decade.The council, the NDA and the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design will discuss the issue not only in terms of improving infrastructure such as roads, footpaths and buildings but through the use of technology.Speaking before the conference, Peter Finnegan, director of the council's office of international relations and research, said Dublin was leading the way internationally in terms of using technology to improve accessibility."Earlier this year, we...
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Bewitching shoegazing electronica from School of Seven Bell’s beautiful new album Alpinisms. That is all.
School of Seven Bells - Wired for Light
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School of Seven Bells - ‘Connjur’...
Chris Morris is a genius. Reason #1327. Warp Records are releasing Chris Morris’ satirical news show on a deluxe 4 CD package featuring all episodes and previously unheard content on the 24th of November. On the Hour was a radio precursor to the televised brilliance of ‘The Day Today’ and I believe the show was the first appearance of one Alan Partridge.
There’s even a website with a podcast running until Christmas.
Download from Bleep or iTunes.
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Chris Morris - ‘Motherbanger’ (Pixies parody)
South Park rips on Bono...
Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin is off to Georgia to assess the security situation on the ground there following the recent conflict between Georgia and Russia. I'm sure the Georgians will greet him like Parisians welcoming Charles De Gaulle in 1944. Their troubles are over the Irish have arrived. What possible help can we be? We don't have the money to help our own country out of recession never mind rebuild Georgia and from a military point of view the most we can do is send a couple of hundred lightly armed soldiers to pad out the peace keeping forces from larger nations. Unless Martin has some wonderful brain for military strategy and tactics he's wasting our money and their time trying to portray himself as an international...
Three little checkpointsRunes, none in Ireland?Inscriptions, none in Ireland until after Christianity hit?Druids, not into...
Reading the stories about Middle Brother and The Kid, it's easy to forget that Middle Brother is called that for a reason. I do have another brother, Youngest Brother. He doesn't feature in my stories as much because I don't get to talk to or see him as much as MB. I've been meaning to write about YB more, because he's a smart, funny guy who does interesting things, but I often find that I can't get a handle on what I want to say about YB. He's a little bit of a mystery to me. I once told MB that I had the feeling that YB was like a balloon and if we didn't hold onto him tight, he'd just float away.Family dynamics are endlessly fascinating to me. In that silly pre-marriage class Peter and I had to take, we had to split into groups based on birth order and discuss what it was like to be in...
Book that might be of interest to peopleDirectory of Historic Dublin Guilds ed by Mary ClarkIf you want to know anything about guilds in Dublin this is the book. It starts off with an introduction, and history of Guilds in Dublin, of which only one survives the abolition in the 1840's (The Guild of Goldsmiths) and then follows with the Trade and Craft Guilds; The Religious Guilds and the Military Guilds. The appendices list various other things like Dublin Guild halls etc. While there are possibly more documents that have surfaced since then it is still a very useful resource. One of the strangest pieces of information that I found in it was that as well as braziers, founders, glaziers, pattern-makers, pewterers, pin-makers, tinplate-workers, trunk-makers, ironmongers and girdlers the...
Soreness. Dammit my wrists have decided that it's a good time to hurt. I saw a post from someone looking for a wig and was reminded that when I first went to This is Knit it had a moment of remembered panic where I realised that they were right beside Wig Wam, the place I tried out wigs when I went for chemo. It's almost a sign of change that they've closed while a wool shop has...
happy birthday to nonhae...
So I managed to get over 2000 words written this evening, so now I am at 23,153 words. I cannot in all conscience claim that today's work represents over 2000 good words, but this is one situation where quantity counts.I'm probably not going to get so much written before the weekend, which is a shame. I am still obviously well behind schedule, but I reckon that a 48 hour write-a-thon over the last weekend should see me reach the finishing line. This weekend I am planning to get on my bicycle to do some field research for my great work. A fascinating development, I am sure you will...
Just found the new RTE Guide in the local newsagents and guess what, the Late Late Toy Show is on Friday November 28th. That's a week earlier than I expected. Have to make sure I'm home for...
THE SPENCER Dock Development Company has settled its court proceedings in which it alleged there was a “covert contract” between the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) and developer Liam Carroll’s North Quay Investments (NQI) Ltd relating to a NQI development on the north quays.The case was settled on consent yesterday on terms which provide for the setting aside of the permission granted by the docklands authority for the NQI development.The terms also include a declaration that the docklands authority acted in excess of its powers in entering into an agreement with NQI on May 31st, 2007, and an order quashing the agreement.The DDDA has also agreed to pay the Spencer Dock Development Company’s legal costs in the settlement ruled yesterday, on consent of the parties, by...
THE STATE and Shell E and P Ireland Ltd have asked the High Court to halt an action by local residents alleging that ministerial consents given six years ago for the Corrib gas pipeline breached European law and the principles of natural and constitutional justice.In the latest stage of a long-running action relating to the pipeline, the State and Shell want the court to strike out proceedings in which four residents are seeking High Court declarations that Shell has no interest in lands acquired under compulsory acquisition orders (CAOs) issued in 2002 by the then minister.The residents also want declarations that the minister had acted in breach of the principles of natural and constitutional justice, and in breach of European law, by giving consent for those CAOs.The Minister and...
THE IRA : the new IRA is younger , more radical and has seen little of life other than violence.......By Ed Moloney. From 'Magill' magazine, September 1980. At the same time there are indications that the IRA could be conserving its resources for the 'long war' ; to hit when and where it hurts . " We could bomb all round us for three months and cause millions of commercial damage but we'd lose 40 or 50 men and maybe kill 9 or 10 civilians in the process . What would be the point of that ? " , asks one Northern IRA leader .Despite temporary or long term setbacks the IRA remains essentially a product of an abnormal society in the North of Ireland , what Tim Pat Coogan calls a 'faecal society' . The IRA is not the problem in the North , it is only a reflection of the problem . And...
Enterprise Ireland Mentor Network
Enterprise Ireland Mentors are senior executives with a proven track record of business success who volunteer their experience, advice and support to client companies, with the key objective of accelerating growth and building client capability. They act as a confidential sounding board, advising the company on developing skills and overcoming barriers to......
A survey of corporate IT: IT's global “cloud” | Let it rise | The Economist
Information technology is turning into a global “cloud” accessible from anywhere.What does that mean for the way people conduct business?
My DebugBar | CompanionJS / HomePage
Companion.JS (pronounced Companion dot JS or CJS) is a Javascript debugger for IE. The current version is 0.4.2.
Companion.JS adds the following features to IE :
Detailled javascript error reporting (call stack and real file name where the error occured).
"Firebug"-like Console API feature.
Javascript console feature useful to inspect javascript objects at runtime.
A toolbar icon to open the Companion.JS......
Pure Play: BizCamp
Conor O'Neill has posted the learning from CorkCamp2 over on their blog - link here. In it he suggests there maybe interest in a Bizcamp.
My interpretation is a Camp which does not exclude technology sessions/streams but which is pitched more at business discussions and experience sharing. So it would appeal both to the early stage technology community which turn up to standard Camps but also to entrepreneurs and startups from other......
http://www.ipa.ie/upload/documents/CertificateDiplomaProgrammesMay1_2008.pdf
Institute of Public Administration - IPA - Training - Certificate......
Contact Enterprise Ireland (Location Map)
Location Map (PDF) of Enterprise Ireland Eastpoint and How to contact (Telephone Numbers, standard Email address)
http://www.russellreynolds.com/pdf/thought/DEMISE_WHITEPAPER.pdf
Within this overall story of growth, one inescapable fact is that enterprise software firms
based in Europe have expanded more slowly than those headquartered in the US. What are the reasons that
the European software industry has failed to scale in this......
Am gaeth i mmuirAm tond trethanAm fuaim maraAm dan secht ndrennAm séig i n-aillAm dér gréne. Song of Amhairghin.I am the self establishedIn the heart of all contingent beings;Also, I am the beginning, middle and endOf all contingent beings. Rig-VedaThe Poet WB Yeats once remarked that up until the battle of the Boyne Ireland belonged to Asia. A nineteenth century scholar by the name of Charles Mackay wrote an etymological dictionary of Gaelic in which he surmised that the origin of the word Asia itself could be derived from the old Irish ais meaning back and ia meaning country or land, Asia being the ‘back land’, the land from which we are derived. I do not wish to go into the relative merits or validity of Mackay’s linguistic...
Eventech Dublin - RDS, originally uploaded by Matthew Verso.
Awesome....
The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time
This is probably the best (and certainly one of the longest) lists I've linked to. It's an awesome read though. I can't disagree with any of their choices really, but I would have placed Gollum higher than #10, and Aragorn would have been in there somewhere too.
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LAST night I received a very interesting (chokes) message on Facebook from a complete and utter ignoramus and I thought I would share it with you. I won't be a complete pig and publish her details, much as I am tempted to. But lets just call her by her first initial, G. To me G represents the worst of the smoke-screen arguments being uttered on this vaccine.She says: "I wonder why you invest so much of your time promoting this vaccine. If you are so worried about your daughter's health shouldnt you be spending time with her instead explaining to her that sex at 12 is not a great idea? I am sorry to put it this way but I just find it so shocking that a mum can support this type of "emergency measures" instead of devoting her time to educate and explain the main things to her daughter. If...