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HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE gathered at St Anne’s Park in Dublin today to oppose plans to build 657 apartments near the grounds.
A rally, organised by the I Love St Anne’s campaign group, took place this morning.
Protesters formed a human chain around on the grounds formerly used as sports pitches at Sybil Hill Road in Raheny.
Crekav Trading, a subsidiary of developer Pat Crean’s Marlet Property Group, has applied for planning permission to build the apartment complex on the site - more than a year after the developer’s initial submission to build in the area was rejected.
A planning permission application to build 104 houses and 432 apartments was initially lodged, but the plan was rejected in 2018 by An Bórd Pleanála.
In September 2018, the Board refused permission on the basis of legal points raised in the court challenge concerning European environmental directives, specifically relating to the potential impact on bird species, particularly Brent geese.
The campaign has attracted the support of local politicians since it was established in 2015.
In a statement posted on Facebook after today’s rally, the group said: “An Bord Pleanála, Dublin City Council management, Minister Josepha Madigan and Crekav may take this is a simple demonstration of the depth of feeling that exists among the people of Dublin on this issue”
Labour senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin addressed the crowd today, who gathered today dressed in red t-shirts with the slogan “Hands off our park”.
With reporting from Emer Moreau
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Robert troy resigned and no comments allowed by Orwellian journal. North Korean style media democracy. What a joke.
@Greedylocks: give over. If we had North Korean style media people wouldn’t be allowed comment on any article. Comments are closed to prevent a a repeat of the disgusting comments that were deleted on previous articles. Any articles that could end up being investigated for possible illegal activity always have comments closed to allow for due process.
@barry moore: first article about this story were closed & censorship is a slippery slope.
@Greedylocks: Go away and laugh somewhere else at the joke.
@Greedylocks: And they expect people to contribute money to the Journal, pack of censoring chancers.
@Damien Leen: closed after disgusting comments were removed. The Journal are entitled to stop and remove comments being made in their site, remember you agreed to that in the T&Cs. If your not happy with that feel free to sling your hook. Ya wont be missed. Do sky, RTE or virgin media allow comments on news articles? Nope.
@Irish ColdCases: remember you agreed to their Terms and conditions.
@Greedylocks: freeze peach American constitutional values are irrelevant to a privately owned Irish company.
Your NK analogy is daft.
@Greedylocks: you just want somewhere to spew bile and write disgusting remarks about someone you have never met.
@Damien Leen: then slide down it…
@Greedylocks: FFG and the Greens hoping his resignation will stop a corruption probe and of course criminal investigation, not to mention it shining a light on other FFG TDs
Not declaring a directorship is after all
A criminal
Offences and we can’t be having scuuum bag criminals in the Dail can we ?
@barry moore: okay so. My point still stands, I didn’t agree to censorship from what I remember nor were money contributions mentioned in these terms and conditions that you speak of. Good story though bro.
@Irish ColdCases: Read section 4 (ii) of the T&C and say that again. Also you are not forced to contribute money…
@Diarmuid Hunt: ye so we agree then there was no mention of money contributions in terms and conditions. Have a good one.
@Irish ColdCases: You agreed to posts being removed. What has money contributions got to do with anything, you aren’t forced to give money and they don’t expect you to contribute money. Have you a few marbles missing?
@barry moore: This is a news article
@JG: go grab your pom poms ya government cheerleader…keep swallowing their (rap, probably why you are so full of it, clown.
@Blue Avians: Well spotted. 10/10 top of the class
@Greedylocks: if we had “North Korean style media” you would be tracked down and executed for that comment. Your body fed to the dogs. Not to mention the fact that there are zero options available to North Koreans to voice their opinions on anything. Cop yourself on. If comments were open on that story you’d get the usual suspects on here commenting slanderous nonsense then complaining that their comments were deleted. Why do want to comment on it so badly? What do you have to say that’s so important the world needs to hear it?. The chap left his position and rightly so. What more is there to say.
@Gearóid MacEachaidh: what disgusting comments were mentioned about Troy,, I didn’t know I needed to pay tax what a load of baloney. He should be kicked out of govt not Martin and Varadkar saying what a good bloke he was. If any normal person did what he did revenue would nail them to the wall. The journal is a govt mouthpiece with plenty of paid govt mouthpieces commenting on here and everyone knows who they are either hiding behind stupid handles or Irish names
Stephen Donnelly “health minister “couldn’t guide someone with a cold to a chemist. Another failure by fianna fail. ON and on it goes tragic stuff.
@Paul Gorry: I also have a serious concern about the incorporating the flu and covid vacation, talk about removing peoples choice, if goes ahead people who annually wanted the flu jab and were not interested in the covid vacation are been forced into making a choice especially our most vulnerable the old and sick
@Paul Gorry: health minister should be a senior consultant and working with a representative from each hospital in the country and also a GP representative of each county and a nursing representative from each seriously it’s like me been the minister for science and no clue about it , ministers should have experience and nessecary education in the post that they hold , soon rule out jobs for the boys , no other profession would you see a person unqualified for the position they hold
@Mark Dawson: 100% agree Mark
@Mark Dawson: that’s an unrealistic expectation, especially as senior consultants are paid more than a TD so it would be a backward career move
@Mark Dawson: ah the old choice thingy…. Next…
748 million people in Europe and they reckon that a clinical trial of 500 people is sufficient, seriously
@Mark Dawson: They are testing between two different ways of giving the vaccine. The first smallpox vaccine was given on 1799 though we don’t use the same vaccine today you’ll be glad to know.
@Mark Dawson: Comparing ‘intradermal’ and ‘subcutaneous’ administration methods. Not a vaccine trial. (Do you need the big words explained?)
Why are comments closed on the over 50s Covid booster?
I get my Covid booster vaccination next week at the pharmacy. Well done to all the pharmacies providing the vaccine. As for GP practices who stopped providing it, leaving many elderly people in the lurch and vulnerable- you should be ashamed of yourselves.
@Teresa O’Halloran: Because the usual tinfoil merchants and antivaxx virtue signallers had invaded it.
@DJ François: Nonsense, they don’t want the prevailing narrative being questioned.
@Blue Avians: “prevailing narrative” of a well tested & proven vaccine which will stop more deaths and prevent the hospitals being over-run with antivaxx muppets, that prevailing narrative?
One small issue with this approach is that if a small bump of the fluid isn’t seen just under the skin (almost like how a blister would look), then it hasn’t been administered correctly and you wouldn’t get the therapeutic dose necessary.This would require them to dose you again.
This has been an issue in the states so far and I hope the same doesn’t occur here.
@Kevin Organ: I’d say that’s why the last sentence mentions the vaccine being administered be experienced healthcare professionals only
@Paul Clancy: It’s still worth disseminating so people can self-advocate for themselves if they notice a bleb hasn’t formed upon being vaccinated.
The healthcare workers in the states are just as experienced and yet this is still occurring for some individuals.
It’s better that people know what signs to look for than risking not receiving a therapeutic dose and being unprotected from infection.
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