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RESIDENTS OF AN estate in Limerick awoke on Sunday to find their cars and gardens covered in dust.
Residents in Castlemungret awoke on Sunday to find an accidental dust emission from the nearby Irish Cement factory had covered the estate.
Local resident Emily Dobosz told TheJournal.ie that she had left her home over concerns about the dust, but a spokesperson said that it is harmless.
“On Saturday morning there was a dust emission from the Irish Cement plant at Castlemungret in Limerick.
There is no risk to the public arising from this incident. In accordance with company policy and licence requirements, Irish Cement notified the Environmental Protection Agency of the emission.
“Irish Cement has been engaging with local residents since Saturday morning and acknowledges that inconvenience was caused.
Irish Cement regrets this inconvenience and has provided a number of car washes on foot of the dust emission for local residents. Irish Cement will continue to engage with the local community on this issue.
Emily says that while residents have been offered free car washes, she wants to know specifically what was in the dust and says that she has collected a sample which she will hand over to Limerick County Council.
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Another example of just how cancerous partition has been for this island, north and south.
@Tír Eoghain Gael: You can thank your government for that, we didn’t ask for Brexit.
@Tír Eoghain Gael:
What’s this “south” you speak of? Perhaps you refer to Cork or Kerry or Wexford, ie the South of Ireland. Or Perhaps you mean the Republic of Ireland?
And how has partition been bad for the Republic of Ireland?
True, it’s only been bad for NI and after Brexit it’ll be even worse
@Fred Jensen: how has partition helped the border counties especially Donegal? Can you tell me how the troubles had a positive impact on the ROI?
“North”, is just as much of a misnomer, since Malin Head is in the “South”
Partition has been bad for Ireland (which is the name of the state, not “the Republic of Ireland”) firstly because it created an artificially huge majority which gave the Catholic Church too much power. It created a sectarian state on the island which inevitably led to conflict which spilled over the border. Apart from getting a lot of people killed it was economic poison for the border region
It created competing economies on a tiny island, with the result that billions of IR£ and € have gone into the tills in Newry and Derry. Of course, money has come the other way but that money would’ve been on Ireland anyway without partition.
So partition has made us poorer, which of course contributes to emigration. It leaves the state with less money for services and social care. It kills people, and provides an opportunity for criminals to flourish. It makes policing those criminals more difficult because two police forces and legal jurisdictions are involved.
Above all, it has denied the Irish state the talents and work ethic of 1/5th of its people, making us poorer in every sense. And what’s it’s done to the north has been even worse.
Partition has been a catastrophe
The best thing about partition is that people like Tyrone live in a different country.
Catastrophe – perhaps. The alternative – death and destruction…
@Imnotrodten: you like fred Jensen/Johnson are another troll. what was the name of the 2nd account that you were caught making the exact same comments from????
Marshmallow man. He is a troll like me. We’re all trolls. Anybody who can read a map is a troll. Tyrone is a apologist for terrorists.
@Emeralds:
Nonsense. WIthout partition, there would have been civil war anyway in the 1920′s except it would have been Ulster vs the rest. And the troubles would have been infinitely worse for the last 100 years and infected and poisoned politics in Dublin.
@Imnotrodten: at least we know you use multiple accounts and won’t be using your marshmallow man account in this article to backup your comments.
Maybe I’m Tyrone, maybe I’m you. There is no way to prove otherwise
Marlowemallow/Imnotrodten: Can we partition Rockall and put you there?
Don’t think it’s big enough for two border posts so no.
Enid needs to tell us exactly what this ‘agreement he has with the British government’. What exactly does the sound bite of ‘ no hard borders of the past’ actually mean and how they will work.
Anything else is just him thinking with himself again
@ Fred Johnston You speak with such conviction, but unfortunately you are taking about a what-if scenario so there is no way of knowing it would’ve been “infinitely worse”. Maybe it would’ve been better; we would have had a bigger population and economy, the Catholic church may not have had the chokehold it had. There are many what-ifs in your scenario, but I would have liked to see how our little island turned out had it been united from the start.
Fred johnston; so you accept that the 6 county statelet was born out of Unionist refusal to respect the democratic will expressed in the 1918 election. That threatened unionist violence and the first private ‘army’ to arm themselves( UVF 1912) backed up in 1920 by British threats of ” immediate and terrible war” is the birth right of that failed statelet on this island.
Yet you brand those who have resisted that and its on going sectarian core as ‘ terrorist’!!!
@Fred Jensen: The 26 Counties is the best name. Therein lies your answer.
@Ruairi O Neill:
There was not one sectarian state on this island as a result of partitiion. There was two. Are you suggesting if the two were merged that there would be religious and secular harmony?
@Ruairi O Neill: I appreciate that this is the internet and there are multiple account posters and trolls here. But I am not Imnotrodten and nor am I a troll. I don’t expect you to take the word of an anonymous poster on that but you might at least apply the same skepticism to claims by some lunatic like Imnotrodten that he speaks on my behalf and declares that I’m a troll. Or a fascist. Or whatever other random nonsense comes up on the troll bingo card today.
Whatever
@Ruairi O Neill: ..it was never going to be a United Island from the start without far more bloodshed then there already was. How can people not grasp that concept? The divisions in working class communities in Northern Ireland are bitter and far reaching. Its a senseless hatred built on the fear of losing identities.Lets say you were a deep rooted Unionist and in the morning your once British country with a monarch is replaced by a United Ireland (maybe a Republic) your whole identity/belief is gone in a poof. Ah sure thats grand… A hard border will be a disaster for all except hardline Unionists as it pushes a United Ireland further away.
@niall brew Of course there would’ve been bloodshed, the unionists were armed to the teeth by the time partition came. But we don’t know how it would’ve panned out in the long run. The divisions , although obviously in existence before partition, were exacerbated by a bigoted Stormont government in the decades after partition.
So, you just like to copy and paste trolls’ comments init your own then?
Gorry is worried he’ll be deported back to the UK.
@Niall Brew: every thing you said was about as wrong as it could be. If we had held out for a united Ireland the loyalist violence wouldn’t have lasted pissing time if the Brits got rid of them, who would support them and what would they be fighting for. A hard border will speed up unification, the one who will suffer most will be unionist businesses and we all know that loyalty to Money means more than anything else. If the u.k is suffering financially under brexit, then the six counties will be the last place London wants to waste money on, when the majority in the six counties see which side their bread is buttered on, they will be begging To be part of the republic. A move that will be financially benifical to everybody on this island.
Hard Brexit = Hard Border
A Hard Border would be the worst thing to happen to peace on this Island since the start of the GFA.. Start putting checkpoints on border roads and waiting until you see how quick you’ll see attacks from the RIRA on the Soldiers or whoever will be manning them..
@David Garland:
Ah don’t be so dramatic it’s not the 1960′s. People have better things to be doing. People will just get used to it. Likely traffic will free flow most of the time using number plate recognition software.
@Fred Jensen/johnson: tell that to the dissidents who will blow up the border posts and no doubt threaten the people who will be working there.
you really don’t know what you are talking about.
Its called being prepared. If they didnt we’d say their unprepared. Suprised people dont recognise the cta.
Any attempts to set up a hard border in Ireland again would be utter madness. The posts or check points will just be blown up again, and attacked and sniped at – are the Brits or the Europeans prepared for that? Are they willing to risk reigniting the conflict and having to re-militarise the area? Because that what they will have to do if they set up a physical border in Ireland once again. The unnatural division of this country was always a bad idea, it was wrong and they well know it……It is STILL an open sore, still festering away beneath the surface, a red hot tinder-box waiting for a spark. Can the British handle it all firing off once again – the awful pain, the human suffering.. not to mention the expense? Who in their government, who in Europe, would want such a thing on their shoulders?
Can’t see the people of the North going back to violence over a border brought about by Brexit. There is no other way around it we have to protect our borders. It effects Nationalists and Loyalists equally they’ll have to just get on with it..
Fred I’m not being dramatic.. Go up to Belfast or Lurgan in July and see for yourself how close things are to kicking off again.. What do you think will happen in border Counties North and South of the border if army checkpoints are put in place, young lads with nothing else to do with start joining the ranks of the RIRA.. It’s going to put the peace process back 30 years..
Build a wall and make them pay for it.
@Pádraig Ó Braonáin: Eu could not give a toss
@Diarmuid: who is them?
@Alanine Pipeline: I voted for the constitutional amendment to agree to ditch the claim of the island of Ireland on condition that the island would have NO borders . If the border returns then the referendum result and the treaty are void .
@Alanine Pipeline: Smuggling whoopee…
Lads time to deal with the real world, rather than the world you’d like to see. In the real world, the Brits are outside the EU, the EU single market and the EU customs union. Ireland remains in all three. That means we need a border between the two customs zones, that’s the case everywhere.
Not much sympathy for middle class Catholics in the North who surveys showed have favoured NI remaining in the UK for the last decades. Why should we care about a people that want the benefits of being part of the UK? If they’re happy to see themselves as British, then they need to accept the result of a British decision.
@Fred Jensen: you do realise that a hard border will benefit nobody on the island? I have told you the reasons many times yet you still insist on spouting your bull.
why was your old account ‘fred johnson’ deleted – is it because you are a troll????
British are outside the EU? We!?
@gjpb:
The only troll here is you who constantly feel the need to respond to my comments. I must be having a real psychological effect on you. I feel your pain every time you write to me.
@Fred Jensen: I respond to people who talk tripe and you are one of those. I really get a kick of calling you out and you not being able to respond :)
@gjpb:
If that’s how you get your kicks then i feel even more sorry for you.
I actually don’t mind debating the issues with you as i gives me a chance to whoop you
@Fred Jensen: how have you ever whooped me? you usually can’t respond and we don’t hear of you in that article again. you never responded to my comment above how partition was good for Donegal??
children…
@fred Johnson/jensen: thanks for proving my point. see you in the next article…..
@gjpb: You hardly called him out on it. Why do you think the DUP voted in favor? Because a United Ireland is something they will fight tooth and nail against..hence a hard border benefits them culturally, if not economically.
@Niall Brew: I have called him out on it in numerous other articles and he is unable to answer a question that I asked him twice in this article.
I am well aware why the DUP were the only party on this island that voted in favour of brexit. however, fred is not in the DUP and is one of the few people who insists on a hard border even though he has been told by numerous people time and time again of the disadv of it.
I don’t see any upside to the hard border but I also can’t see any alternative if we wish to remain in EU and the UK wishes to control it’s border.
Only other option would be hard border between the UK and NI but that would be quite a political move so I don’t think it is realistic that they will do it. I haven’t seen any alternative solutions to the problem being proposed here though?
There are no other solutions, the border either stays as is or a militarised hard border will be needed, there is no viable in between.
@Niall Brew: the DUP voted out because they are morons who don’t realise great Britain and northern Ireland is a thing of the past and they will soon find out they have no friends in London. Let’s be honest the DUP are not only an embarrassment to the people in the six counties but also the whole of england.
@Mr Phil Officer What about british customs controls at our ports and airports, same as the U.S. does currently in Dublin?
They have to be prepared. It doesn’t mean they favour it.
That’s it in a nutshell.
Yes Edna we certainly believe everything you tell us!! Your word is worth as much as a chocolate kettle
Might interfere with fuel laundering, fags, cattle, criminals smuggling, and a whole host of “fundraising” activities now that would be rather bothersome to some people!!!
@Bill Madden: You’re not wrong there and what’s so hard to understand about Brexit? If UK are out and we are in then the NI border is an EU border. I’m not sure it’s in Enda or Theresa’s power to decide how hard or soft that border is.
@Bill Madden: you think having a border between an e.u country and a state outside the e.u won’t produce opportunities for entrepreneurs on the wrong side of the law then you have a short memory.
Its been obvious that Fine Gael just do whatever Brussels tells them to do. Does anybody believe that Brussels won’t use us as a strategy in their ‘negotiations’ with Britain and does anybody believe that Fine Gael wont just go along.
Good children who are delighted with a pat on the head. Good laidin.
Brexit means Brexit
Sinn Fein supporters and Trump sympathisezers are way over represented in the Journal comments. And the Russians of course
I think mark has been filling up on the funny diesel again
@Mark Gearey: So you name call people based on what they believe compared to what you don’t believe?
Sinn Fein wants to know what the results will be of a series of negotiations that haven’t happened yet? Well that’s realistic.
If negotiations have not taken place yet how can Enid have an ” agreement with the British”?????
They probably have an understanding based on the intended negotiation strategy. What that means in Enda’s head could be anything.
So numb skull Enid makes statements in our Dail as the FF supported Taoiseach and Sinn Fein as the true opposition question those statements.. Yet while you accept that Enid has a track record of ‘ Anglo comments’ ie pulled from some obscure orifice, you attemtbto ridicule SF for asking those questions!!!
True establishment M.O. Castigate, ridicule the questioner rather than deal with the question. Ask Maurice Mc Cabe how that developes!!
They’re all pretty laughable. Of every political hue.
It seems reasonable to at least plan for the event and calculate the costs of it. To be fair, the govt have made it clear they don’t want a hard border re-established, but seems to me the only hope of that not happening now is if Westminster votes against it.
In fact, as the leader of SF, it is Gerry that is best placed to influence the event in the near future. Assuming SF take their seats.
And the EU may well get involved – as borders (real/hard) are mandatory between member states and others.
@Alanine Pipeline: I think the EU is already very much involved. That’s why neither May nor Enda Kenny are in a position to say what will happen with the border. It will be part of negotiations but in the end it’s not their decision. If/when the UK leaves, the NI border will be an EU external border and the EU ultimately has a say in how such external borders must be controlled.
if they implement the hard border we may be able to join Schengen at least.
@justanothertaxpayer: I think Schengen is still suspended at many borders. Irish people have largely not quite caught up with how rapidly Europe has changed in the past two years.
“Current Temporarily Reintroduced Border Controls
Temporarily reintroduced border controls in the context of foreseeable events:
France (13 November 2015 – 26 January 2017)
COP 21, the emergency state as introduced on the French territory further to the terrorist attacks in Paris, Euro 2016, Tour de France, the emergency state as prolonged on 21 July 2016 further to the terrorist attack in Nice).
France (27 January 2017 – 15 July 2017)
persistent terrorist threat
Malta (21 January 2017 – 9 February 2017)
Malta Informal Summit and Joint Valetta Action Plan Meeting
Temporarily reintroduced border controls in the context of Recommendation of the Council of 7 February 2017:
Germany (11 February 2017-11 May 2017)
land border with Austria
Austria (11 February 2017-11 May 2017)
land border with Slovenia and with Hungary
Denmark (11 February 2017-11 May 2017)
Danish ports with ferry connections to Germany and the Danish-German land border
Sweden (11 February 2017-11 May 2017)
Swedish harbours in the Police Region South and West and the Öresund bridge
Norway (11 February 2017-11 May 2017)
Norwegian ports with ferry connections to Denmark, Germany and Sweden
Back to the days of the North been isolated im afraid, I wont be going through checks to visit a part of an Island I habe every right like all of us to visit freely and are entitled ro as Irish citizens.
There has to be a hard border – anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. People could just come to Ireland & drive up north without a hard border. Then they’re in the UK. There’s no other solution.
@Jason Maguire: Customs checks from the North of Ireland to the actual UK would be easier, cheaper and better for all!
@Oroku Saki: Northern Ireland is the UK.
Anyone else believing anything out of Kenny’s mouth?
Customs checks from the North of Ireland to the actual UK would be easier, cheaper and better for all!
“The government urgently needs to clarify these contradictory positions” – Gerry spoofing again.
To want one thing and also prepare for it not to come about is not a contradiction. To anyone who is considering voting for this idiot, please bear in mind that he thinks planning for multiple potential outcomes is an issue.
@Richard: Dick when has that spluttering, mumbling, moron Edna the liar ever planned for anything.
The answer is to give all EU nationals that are being allowed remain in the UK an ID card similar to our PPS card.This will give them access to UK Benefits Etc. Only issue it to people that have worked for say 5 years Then you can dump the freeloaders No need for hard border then.
Lads can’t you just vote for unification and split from UK? It’s about time.. ⌛
Kenny & May will have no say in this.
@Tony Hartigan: Be the EU all the way, as usual?
Considering the number of “good Republicans” involved in fuel laundering it’s hardly surprising Provisional SF are concerned
We have little in common with mainland Europe we are a migrant dumping ground for them
And wil be expected to take the uk vitas of migrants when they leave we need to go also
And what would you do gerry? Give us a hint.
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