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DUBLIN’S PORT TUNNEL has reopened after being closed this morning due to a hauliers protest over high taxes on heavy goods vehicles.
The tunnel handles large volumes of traffic coming to and from the M1 to the city centre and its closure has had a knock-on effect for rush-hour motorists, as this map shows. Red areas are considered heavy traffic.
Eoin Gavin of the Irish Hauliers Association say that the group wants to meet government representatives to discuss the problems in the industry.
“50,000 jobs are represented here. We’ve been before Oireachtas committees and met with TDs and Senators but there was no reaction in the Budget.”
The HGV ban for Dublin city centre has not yet been lifted, but that could change.
Chaos
Elsewhere, there are delays on the North Circular Road after a crash on Dorset Street and a crash on the M7 inbound near Naas is causing delays.
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The what’s in it for me party
I think that’s called Fine Gael or is it Finns Fail
Think I’d give my first preference to the sex party and my second to the hemp party. Glad to see they’ve formed a coalition. They need to get the Rock n Roll party involved and they could really shake things up
Mandatory voting?! What a terrible idea forcing the uniterested and uninformed to cast a vote
There was no problem getting the uninformed to vote in the UK last week
its a shame they didn’t have it in the uk last week, it might have changed things. nothing wrong with making it compulsary tweety, it gets people to think about what they are voting for. not like last weeks nonsense..immigrant this and that. what absolute waffle.
Uninterested and uninformed is just another way of saying lazy ***** who couldnt be arsed voting. I’m all in favour of mandatory voting if it means those that arent bothered voting get fined.
Compulsory voting just means people will turn up and spoil their votes. #dumbaussies
Compulsory voting means uninformed people get to vote, often parroting what the tabloid media is crapping on about. It also means issues can be made up/ overstated to garner votes – for example Tony Abbotts ‘stop the boats’ bullshite and off shore processing for refugees ( far more refugees in Australia arrive in planes than boats, but you can’t make as big a noise about that).
The tabloid media has far too much power because of compulsory voting, and that means Murdoch and Packer pretty much control the country
Cool I’ll go for Brexit
that flux party voting app thing could be the future. one of the great problems is that when we elect our politicians they then have a five year mandate with free reign to do what ever the hell they want. this app would really give people an ongoing say in massive decisions (eg burining unsecured bondholders) that are currently out of our hands.
I couldn’t see any of our political mob as Sex Party material! Now the Flux Party sounds sorta familiar alright!
Joan burton
Boris was rumoured to be running for the sex party, but he pulled out too early.
They should join forces and call themselves ‘The All Night Party’.
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