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A PLAN FOR a Dublin City Council “super depot” has been given the green light.
The €27 million plan will be built on the St Margaret’s Road in Ballymun in land owned by the council, but which fell inside the boundary of Fingal.
Yesterday morning, Fingal County Council notified DCC that it had granted permission for the plan.
It will house around 150 staff and have another 600 reporting to it. The council has said in the past that the consolidation of the lands would free up other depots for “more appropriate” uses.
The site will consist of a civic amenity site separate to the depot and accessible by the public, central stores for the council, workshops, a vehicle garage, a multi-storey car park, an office and a salt barn.
Concerns had been raised by a local Traveller group, who said that their horizon would be dominated by the structure.
However, Fingal has decided to approve the plan.
Councillor Noeleen Reilly says that the decision was to be welcomed.
“The additional workforce in the area should be a benefit to the local community and economy.
“In terms of existing sites and the land that will now become available the council need to prepare a plan for housing and other amenities in the future.”
However, Reilly said that the locals had to be consulted now that work is due to begin as works will affect them.
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What are the Catalans actually at now? They just seem to be ars*ing around
@Franklin Roosevelt: He knows that the split between the separatists and unionists is too fine to call an election he could very well lose.
@Mick Jordan: well, the problem is that Abby election would be a de facto independence referendum. The separatist movement would probably win and Madrid would suspend autonomy again. They were waiting for promised guarantees from Madrid to respect any election result. Madrid refused
@Paul Devlin: I’m not sure the seperatists would win. He has pretty much clocked everything up since the day after the referendum. Has come off very indecisive and almost afraid to act.
@Dave O Keeffe: or unwilling to ratchet up the tension to the point of violence. That’s Madrid’s way. Every violent or coercive blow the Spanish government lands leads another section of the Catalan people to the separatist camp
@Paul Devlin: I agree, but if he wanted a result he should have gone for it two weeks ago when people were already being brutalised by Madrid.
He is out of his depth. Think of the Grand Old Duke of York.
he’s just making an eejit of himself at this stage.. I think the momentum is just gone now &the govt in Madrid must be just loving watching this now
FLIP-FLOP. No wonder SF claim such an affinity to this party.
He knows they will be outcasted by Europe.. dopey stunt he played
@cormac o neill: they’d have a few friends at first, maybe some Scandinavian and Eastern European countries. The UK if Corbyn gets elected even.
Then the nation of Catalonia will become just the new normal and conservatives in Ireland, Britain and beyond will then pretend “Oh yeah, we were always cool with that idea”
Farcical. End of.
This chap is all over the place, get on with it
Just declare independence already.
lol. The head of the catalan fascist government seems to be Lost…
@La Massa: Fascist?
@Malachi: yeah, a facist disgrace. A shame for Freedom and democracy… A bad joke.
Looks like he bottled it
Eeny Meeny Money Mo. Catch a blackbird by the toe. If it squeals let it go eeny meaney miney mo….no election
I think he knows if he called a second election then the majority of the population would vote and the result wouldn’t be for independence.
Last time round most Catalan’s didn’t recognise the vote as legitimate and only the pro-
independence folk were motivated to vote.
Bit like the Easter Rising. Supported by very few, thought at the time to be crackpots and dreamers. Yet corrected history’s warm hand has made them out to be heroes.
This guy doesn’t seem to know the difference between his arse and his elbow.
have your say