Let Battle Commence
We had a great Selection Convention in The Mansion House for the Pembroke-Rathmines and the South East Inner City wards. The Selection Conventions were chaired by well known blogging politician, Dominic Hannigan, and hosted by the Dublin South East Labour Party. Kevin Humphreys and Maria Parodi were selected for the South East Inner City – which inexplicably now includes half of Sandymount – and Mary Freehill, Oisín Quinn and I were selected for the new Pembroke-Rathmines ward.
Pembroke Rathmines Ward Map (click for PDF)
There was a good atmosphere and, while in no way complacent, we all felt that three seats out of the six in Pembroke-Rathmines is an achievable goal. The fact that we are all from different parts of the new area and that we are all very different in terms of our interests and backgrounds will, I believe, add to the possibility. I know that we will all work together for what can be a great Labour victory.
In my own speech to the Convention I spoke about our achievements over the years in terms of housing provision, protection of green spaces and creation of new parks & playgrounds and the initiation of various community development grant schemes. However, I also acknowledged that we have a long way to go in terms of developing a truly inclusive society and the need for better housing and planning services in the City. I also emphasised, as I always do, the need for fundamental reform of our Local Government system itself.
Quite simply, Fianna Fáil has let down the people of Dublin. In Dublin South East they have failed abysmally to use the Celtic Tiger years to deliver at all. The advent of a Green Party Minister has had no impact except the crazy and self-serving (for the Greens) division of Sandymount in terms of Local Government representation. I intend to use the next nine months to highlight their failures and to offer positive, sensible and practical solutions to our problems. Dublin is great City and deserves better.
I look forward to the challenge over the next nine months. I look forward to working with a great team of people who have already started to form around my candidacy. I look forward to being out and about and
meeting as many people as possible in Pembroke-Rathmines and I look forward to a truly great victory for Labour next June.
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DDDA & Gormleymander & Deception
http://galwaytent.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-anglo-irish-sails-away-does-galway.html
The revolving door Fonctionaires in John Gormley’s DDDA subsidiary have committed taxpayers to the tune of €36 Million plus interest plus risk at IGB in Ringsend.
In June 2008, an egregious call a spade a spade Gormleymander was fixed to expand DDDA’s land grab into Sandymount. This below-the-public-radar scheme was executed just a year after the DDDA’s empire was expanded by Dick Roach to include Sandymount Strand. Swiftly after the empire’s land grab, DDDA seems to have launched what appears to be a classic & expensive Big Lie public relations campaign curiously labeled as public consultation. This may not necessarily be a deliberate public deception campaign. However, has the public been deceived?
Factoid: It seems DDDA omitted or buried and then a few months later published drawings for masses of sixteen floor rabbit-hutch flat-towers beside a waste-to-toxics incinerator on the protected Sandymount seashore (violating Irish & EU standards).
Possibly for future Supreme Court reasons this possibly deliberate or possibly innocent omission was addressed by giving some crayoned plans to a small number of selected public-insiders, complete with roads onto Sandymount Strand curiously disguised as innocent green space running between the massive flat-tower complexes.
DDDA splashes the public transport system with expensive advertising. In contrast to its brass-necked public consultation, DDDA has not used its multi-million PR budget to inform the public with copies of these drawings. So, if DDDA is not fully informing the public, who is the beneficiary?
Extracted from: http://galwaytent.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-anglo-irish-sails-away-does-galway.html