Archive for the 'DCC-DDDA' Category

Sinn Fein & Anglo-Irish-Bank & DDDA High Rises & Covanta Waste-To-Toxics Incinerator on Your Beach at Sandymount.

October 28, 2008

Sandymount Strand Now Comes With A Sinn Fein Guarantee!

Nice CompanyWanna sleep with da fishes? What about a knee-cap guarantee with that? Or a dud bank supported by taxpayer funds take from Medical Cards? What about a corporation with six thousand environmental violations in just 2 years. Nice company – Sinn Fein and Anglo-Irish-Bank. And [...]

Feeding The Worms at Dublin City Council Creates A Monopoly to Benefit Foreign Corporations?

October 28, 2008

Pat Oliphant Editorial Cartoons

Don’t Feed The Worms At Dublin City Council!
Should you immediately switch your bin collection to Panda? If you do nothing are you supporting the worms promoting DCC’s Waste-To-Toxics incinerator which will degrade health all across Dublin?
Should you immediately remove all your assets from Anglo-Irish Bank? If you do [...]

Planners ‘Inappropriate Links’ with Developers?

October 23, 2008

What Baggage Charges? Does O’Leary Fly bags to Isle of Man?
Another Revolving Door
“A serious conflict of interest arose when Jim Barrett, recently retired City Architect, arrived to give evidence as part of Sean Dunne’s project team. Jim Barrett had attended pre-application consultations with the developers,”

Jim Barrett, [...]

DDDA Vision for Sandymount

October 15, 2008

DDDA’s Vision of Sandymount
Image Inspired By London Independent

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They are Kremlinesque, the most secretive communications operation I have ever encountered. They try to kill stories and suppress the flow of information to the public. They obfuscate.

Their annual report fails to give any information about the directors — all political appointees. Names only. They could all be [...]

DDDA & Anglo Irish Bank & Revolving Doors

October 11, 2008

Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick is on the board of the DDDA.

DDDA chairman Lar Bradshaw is a board member of Anglo Irish Bank.

DDDA owns 26 per cent of a company called Becbay (1).

DDDA director Niamh O’Sullivan’s day job is as a director of Arup Consulting(2).

Mary Finan … Bank of Ireland … member [...]

DDDA Bias Legal Judgement

October 10, 2008

DDDA Bias Legal Judgement
At a cynical PR-event in June 2008, DDDA’s senior project manager appeared to claim there was no conflict of interest between:

Financial player DDDA owning equity in the IGB site in Ringsend-Sandymount

and

Financial player DDDA Controlling the IGB planning permits.

Historic Planning.

In a curiously similar situation [...]

October 9, 2008

DDDA & Gormleymander & Deception
The revolving door Fonctionaires in John Gormley’s DDDA subsidiary have further committed taxpayers to the tune of €36 Million plus interest plus risk at IGB.
In June 2008, an egregious Gormleymander was fixed to expand DDDA’s land grab into Sandymount. This curiously silent scheme was executed just a [...]

October 9, 2008

DDDA & Gormleymander & Deception
The revolving door Fonctionaires in John Gormley’s DDDA subsidiary have further committed taxpayers to the tune of €36 Million plus interest plus risk at IGB.
In June 2008, an egregious Gormleymander was fixed to expand DDDA’s land grab into Sandymount. This curiously silent scheme was executed just a [...]

October 9, 2008

DDDA & Gormleymander & Deception
The revolving door Fonctionaires in John Gormley’s DDDA subsidiary have further committed taxpayers to the tune of €36 Million plus interest plus risk at IGB.
In June 2008, an egregious Gormleymander was fixed to expand DDDA’s land grab into Sandymount. This curiously silent scheme was executed just a [...]

Poolbeg Incinerator Finances Built On House Of Cards

October 6, 2008

Independent.ie

Legal action threatens Poolbeg incinerator plan
By Paul Melia Monday October 06 2008

A LANDMARK court case could result in the controversial Poolbeg incinerator being shelved.
Private waste collectors Greenstar and Panda are to ask the High Court to stop Dublin City Council limiting their activities in the city, and [...]