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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL has requested Eircom remove 20 power supply micro pillars built without planning permission in ‘hazardous locations’.
Some 181 of these structures, which each provide a power supply to a corresponding telecommunications cabinet, were erected around the city between July and September of this year. The council said today that “permission was not sought or granted”.
In total, 20 of these steel micro pillars are in hazardous locations on footpaths around the city.
“Dublin City Council notified Eircom immediately of the unauthorized status of the micro pillars and that Eircom must make safe all hazardous micro pillars, until such time as they are removed,” the council said.
In a statement, Eircom said:
These pillars are used to connect our fibre cabinets with the ESB network. Eircom is working closely with our contractors and Dublin City Council to remove the micro pillars and to replace them with underground joint boxes.
The company has undertaken to have all of the problem pillars removed by 29 November and keep them barriered off in the meantime.
The council said the remaining pillars still require planning permission.
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This is the same agency that gave us AAA status in the boom times. S and P Moodys and Fitch should be regulated much tighter than the are. They have huge conflict of interest with their business practices.
AAA rating from S&P is like the kiss of death to any country or company
Ah the reason Ryanair has been buying back it’s shares revealed.
Has to do something with its vast profits!
O shit, that’s the end of Ryan air, sell sell sell WTF has happend
“Michael You’r The Man” ……. how about RyanMed …….. fly me out of here … to an airport near a Hospital without waiting lists. Gladly join a OneBigSwitch to RyanMed.
The world can give Ryanair just whatever they want. I still will never ever put my feet inside one of their planes.
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