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IFA committee is split on land for roads compensation deal.
Members of the IFA's special negotiating group were on their way to a meeting in a Dublin hotel on the evening the agreement was made public -- November 28 -- when they first learned on a radio bulletin that a deal had already been struck. |
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IFA join forces with NRA to push through motorway projects.
Essentially the deal means the IFA will "promote full co-operation with the NRA" |
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The Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms O'Rourke, has told CIÉ not to abandon elements of its rail freight business. |
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ICMSA rejects deal: hopes of a breakthrough in the dispute between farmers and the Department of Environment over the compulsory
purchase of land have suffered a setback |
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IFA president Tom Parlon said he was prepared to put the proposed new agreement to landowners over the next fortnight. |
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MORE than 8,000 farmers and landowners holding out against the compulsory purchase of their land for the stalled national roads plan have been offered an extra £200m compensation. |
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Neglect makes UK roads the most choked in Europe |
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Current Irish transport policy is not conducive to good
health states Irish Doctors Environmental Association |
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The golf course of Irish
history: Duchas agree NRA may destroy archaeological sites |
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Ireland criticised over environment issues |
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Progress claimed on CPO Procedures And Fencing Negotiations |
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Farming leader rejects call to allow road work |
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Watching AA Road Watch:
an individual view |
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Dublin enclosed by steel girdle of cars.
M50 a vast linear car park. |
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Landowner asks courts to stop a major road being built on his
land |
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EU censure for State on
Habitats. Government accused of cavalier approach to EU directives |
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Ireland found to be in breach of European environment law on the conservation of natural habitats and has been ordered to pay court
costs |
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If European countries were racing to save the environment, Ireland would come last - by a long way. |
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An Bord Pleanala reject
ESB transmission line plan: the well-being of the population" cited as reason for refusal |
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TEN ordinary backbenchers are clearing more than £100,000 a year in combined salary, allowances and expenses. |
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I WAS only trying to get home from Thomastown, but I might as well have boarded the hell ride from Calcutta. |
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Fury at railway cuts as 106-year-old freight train reaches end of the line.
Its closure is part of Irish Rail's programme to reduce freight volume carried by 46pc. |
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The Government's finances are deteriorating faster than forecast, according to new economic data. |
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On the day the preferred
route was announced, an estimated 300 people attended a meeting
in Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny and vowed to fight the N9/N10
motorway plans at every stage in the process. |
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Early and significant action is needed to make world transport systems more efficient, more equitable and less environmentally disruptive, a damning report into the state of worldwide mobility of people and goods
states. Read more... |
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Let's say goodbye to hedges |
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But your house will- |
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The preferred route corridor for the controversial road scheme was formally unveiled at a joint meeting of public representatives from Kilkenny, Carlow, Laois and Kildare |
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Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland recently warned some private consultancy firms may be forced to lay off road design teams due to the setback in the national roads’
programme |
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Current roads cost
could be 8.3 billion over budget based on actual cost over-run on Dundalk -
Dunleer motorway figures. |
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55,000 plus capacity for just 720 vehicles per day. The Preferred route for the N9/N10 was announced on Monday October 15th 2001. |
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The Sunday Times: Farmers row delays road plan Read more... |
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The M7/M8 motorways preferred routes between Portlaoise - Castletown -
Cullahill have just been announced . Each motorway can
accommodate 55,000 vehicles per day. But the traffic that
travels the entire journey from Dublin to Cork and Dublin to Limerick
is only 1700 and 1450 vehicles per day respectively. So where
will the extra 100,000 plus vehicles per day come from? And why
is the livelihood of so many people being put at risk by building
these unnecessary motorways? Read more... |
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Incinerated ash to be used in road building. Read more... |
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The National Roads Authority has attempted to invoke the authority of economic science in making the case for the proposed national motorway system and in defence of plans to underpay farmers for their
land Read more... |
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The Institution of Engineers of Ireland (IEI) held the first module of
a 3 module course on planning and construction of roads on September
12 and 13 in Mullingar. CaST brings you a report. Read more... |
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Fine Gael happy to sacrifice 25,000 acres of greenfield countryside and 8,000 landowners to build 500 miles of unnecessary tolled motorway. |
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IFA denies applying pressure on Farmer's Journal in reprint
controversy Read more... |
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British spy on Irish phones. Read more... |
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The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructural Development and Public
Private Partnership Read more... |
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Dear Taoiseach, where did you get the figures to justify your decision
to defy your experts and build motorways? Read more... |
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Resignation call to NRA board members Read more... |
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Decision to Build Motorways Flawed Read more... |
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Mystery resignation of NRA director. Why the secrecy? Read more... |
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Consultants get £10million for paper, farmers get £5million for land Read more... |
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Route Corridor Fiasco Read more... |
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Dig up the roads and let the regions prosper Read more... |
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Old laws used in new land grab Read more... |
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Regional towns may be in for rude awakening Read more... |
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AA Slams Toll Roads Billion Pound Plunder Read more... |
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The Monster is coming Read more... |
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Traffic figures show no need for N8 motorway. Read more... |
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Years Turning Read more... |
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Let's say goodbye to hedges Read more... |
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The theft of economic power and natural assets by a globalising capitalism impinges on everyone's ideals Read more... |