From www.castlebar.ie Local Papers Commentary Flynn’s evidence on hold for month
Mr Gilmartin made a lot of serious allegations against Padraic Flynn during the week. He even claimed that Pee asked him to claim that the cheque had been returned. It will be interesting to see how this claim is dealt with. Driving back from a meeting in Dublin on Friday evening - past Quarry Vale (Liffey Valley) where the traffic crawls along - even on Sunday afternoons - due to its stupid location. And then all the way to one-off housing lands at Enfield and beyond at about 5 mph, I cursed all those politicians who ever took a brown envelope or election contribution from a developer/land/owner/auctioneer and preferring to line their pockets at the expense of rational planning in the 1980s and 1990s. Watch this space.
Rural dwellers hail new planning rules
More of the same I'm afraid. An election promise. And for once it might be a FF promise that is actually fulfilled. Farmers now earn 800,000 euro per annum selling sites according to the Irish Times. That is almost as much as from the CAP contribution from the European taxpayer paid to farmers in order to keep the Irish country side in good condition. So what do they do? Build houses on it! The genuine farmer can't afford to buy land for cattle any more. Farm 'incomes' went down but land prices went up. (They don't count land sales as farm income though.) So watch as the 'Sites for sale' signs go up at a field near you. And boil your drinking water folks - a leaky septic tank is coming to an aquifer near you. The elections are coming up so once again you have a unique chance make Mayo a laughing stock by electing another batch of auctioneer councillors, land-owning-councillors and not forgetting the developer-councillors (or their partners) so that they will maintain their majority on Mayo County Council. I'm worried because they only have a majority of 15 of the 31 councillors at present so it's a slim majority. so get aout and vote and put a few more auctioneers onto the council? We need more auctioneering councillors. Nothing like a bit of conflict of interest to get those one-off houses built.
Castlebar petrol station sells for nearly 500,000 euro
The LoneStar has been derelict for a very long time now. They took down the pumps and overhead shelter and removed the underground storage tanks ages ago. It looked like there was a big decontamination job needed to rid the site of oil and petrol that had soaked into the soil beneath. It will be interesting to see what use the triangle at New Antrim and New Line is put too. A new hotel? Naw!
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