The Government has decided that 16 Moore Street in central Dublin should be listed as a National Monument. The modest red brick house briefly became the headquarters for the 1916 Rising after the leaders were forced to vacate the GPO. It was in this house that Pádraig Pearse wrote the surrender document.
Results of the latest survey from Irish Business Against Litter shows that the situation is improving and that Irish litter levels are now close to the European average. Fermoy was declared the cleanest town in Ireland, followed by Dundalk, Greystones, Wexford and Youghal (joint fourth) and Galway. In all 26 towns were considered Litter-Free, 20 were Moderately Littered and three had a Serious Litter Problem. That left four Litter Blackspots, with Dublin at the bottom of the list, below Maynooth, Naas and Navan.
A National University Ireland, Galway postgraduate student has discovered heavy metal contamination in South Park in the Claddagh area of Galway city. The park, often referred to as The Swamp, was reclaimed some 40 years ago and prior to that it was used as a landfill site. The council has warned people not to eat shellfish collected from the Claddagh area until tests have been completed.
Residents of Kildimo, Co. Limerick have, for some months, been at odds with their county council over the future of their water supply. They are happy with it as it is, while the council wants to connect it to the supply from the River Deel which the residents claim is polluted. Council workmen moved in, in the early hours of Tuesday to connect the local supply from Bleach Lough. Residents, however, quickly organised and disrupted the work.
A High Court ruling that the State could not refuse to grant a diving licence in respect of the RMS Lusitania is to be appealed to the Supreme Court. F. Gregg Bemis, the present owner of the vessel, which was torpedoed in 1915, had applied for a licence for a research expedition but the State is arguing that the expedition involves excavation rather than merely research.
About Me
- Liam Ferrie
- After a career in the IT sector I spent the final 25 years of my working life, along with my wife Pauline, as online publisher to the Irish Diaspora. From 1987 onward the email version of the Irish Emigrant became a vital link with home for many Irish people who had settled overseas. In retirement I am involved with the Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland. I also travel when the opportunity arises and most years Pauline and I walk a Camino to Santiago de Compostela.