![]() Naming a place or structure is usually a political statement and I fully support the initiative to commemorate Bloody Sunday, DCC’s initiative might be the impetus needed for more local authorities to reflect on some of the memorials and street names in our cities and towns commemorating those associated with misrule in Ireland down the centuries. ![]() The council’s Commemorations and Naming Committee has approved a proposal to name the bridge at Russell Street ‘Bloody Sunday Bridge’. I note that Dublin City Council (DCC) has launched a public consultation on the naming of a bridge over the Royal Canal at Croke Park. What ordinary person living in rural or urban Ireland, who’s boiler breaks down in mid-winter and needs a new one, could affort the time to apply for, and get prices for, and wait for approval for, a grant, for a new electric powered heat exchanger and then spend upward of €60k to €100k while she/he waits in mid winter to source a builder, any builder, and arrange for it to be installed?īefore Simon Coveney threatens us with a trade war he might like to reflect that it would hit the Irish Republic much harder than the UK - and the UK government should make sure to maximise that pain. ![]() SEAI are living in a world apart - cloud cuckoo land - with their proposal to ban oil and gas refurb boilers for existing homes by 2030. Will it be all over after the ravages of one terrible winter? Or will it continue indefinably? It is possible the ramifications will continue for decades.Įstimates for household retrofit to get to a B2 Building Energy Rating (BER) were stated as anything from €60k to €100k-plus for the average household. The consequences of business closure, mass unemployment, loss of income, failure of vital services, and shortage of foodstuff will be unprecedented. I believe that despite what little can be done and what supports can be made available, Europe and much of the world is going to have a major collapse of economic activity. There is weeping and gnashing of teeth from all sides predicting how bad things are going to be and what can be done to mollify or reduce the effects of sanctions and shortages. It is high time we had feet on the streets like we did with the water charges.Įurope is set on a course of absolute self-destruction and nobody anywhere is shouting stop. Thanks to this so-called Green Party even boiling a kettle for a cup of tea is becoming unaffordable due to the high energy prices caused by the greed of the energy companies who are making huge profits.Įven the costs of the bare essentials like bread, butter and milk are increasing now. ![]() How are pensioners supposed to get through this coming winter? We can’t get turf and the price of coal is gone sky high and we cannot afford to light a fire to keep warm during the cold, long evenings in winter. Why do the current occupants of Dáil Éireann not see that no matter what Ireland does with our emissions, as they are so small in a global context, that it will make no difference to the global emissions except to hurt our people for no good reason? ![]()
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