15 April, 2005

Donnelly Gallery on the Vico Road


And that view is one of the reasons why people want to live on the Vico Road between Dalkey and Killiney.

Incidentally why not plan ahead for a visit to the Donnelly Gallery, just off the Vico Road. Its inaccessibility to the public is a matter of some controversy, but I'm delighted to say that you can apply to visit by calling Penny Grey the Administrator on 676 8200

Every effort will be made to ensure that visitors to the Gallery have a rewarding and memorable experience. (Or so I'm told)

06 April, 2005

Good to have you back Kunle!


Olunkunle Eluhanla made a brief appearance at the Residents against Racism rally on O'Connell Street last Saturday 2nd April 2005. Here's my press statements on the issue
I made a comparison between Martin Luther King's 'Red Hills of Georgia' Speech and the Green Hills of Ireland, hoping that 'little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers' ... without fear of being deported with no notice.
There was a crowd of around 300 people, with many parts of the country and the world represented.

18 February, 2005

Oxigen









Oxigen Plant in Dublin The Oxigen plant in Coolock on a bitterly cold Friday Morning. The smells from the Cadburys Chocolate Factory and Tayto Crisps are in the air down in the village, but here in the Industrial Estate off the Oscar Traynor Road there's barely a whiff coming from a pile on the floor that represents today's contents from all of Dublin's Green Bins.

€9.50 an hour for the Professors and teachers from Eastern Europe working on the sorting line. The plant can deal with 10 tonnes an hour and is operating 24/7. A new plant in West Dublin will have 5 times the capacity, once it opens later in the year. The worst contents of the green bins so far have been dead cats, and grass clippings, oh, and a back boiler that almost broke the conveyor belt.

16 February, 2005

D-Day for Climate Change


It’s D-Day for Climate Change. Today the Kyoto Protocol comes into force. 

 

Named after an ancient city in Southern Japan, the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change is a United Nations Treaty that tackles Global Warming. In Ireland this may bring warmer drier summers and milder rainy winters. It may also have contributed to the storms to our shores last January, and contributed to flooding in our rivers in recent years. 

 

On Grafton Street Trevor Sargent addressed the shoppers under a giant weather balloon globe that symbolised the fragility of our planet