21st March, 2002
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Incinerator
Dear Sir,
Are you aware that an application for an incinerator has been
sought by Indaver, a Belgian company? This incinerator is to be
situated in Ringaskiddy. Do you know the implications of this for
the people in the surrounding 40 kms? Do you also know that when
the life span of incinerators come to an end in USA no new ones
have come on stream to replace them. Why?
If you want to find out more please come to the Public Meeting in
the Imperial Hotel, Cork on Saturday, 23 March 2002 at 8 o'clock.
Speaking on this subject will be Dr. Vyvyan Howard, MB,ChB, PhD,
FRCPath, a toxio-pathologist from Liverpool and Dr. Sandra
Steingraber Ph.D., an internationally recognised expert on the
environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. She has
also served on President Clinton's National Action Plan on Breast
Cancer.
It is our future and our children's. It's in OUR hands. All are
welcome.
Cork Harbour for a Safe Environment
Refugees!
Dear Editor
As regular reader and first time writer, I sincerely congratulate
you on your response to the uttering's of Noel O’Flynn.
However, judging from Australian experience he is most definitely
on a Vote winner. Over the previous twelve months our P.M. had
been floundering at the Polls, until the rhetoric emerged "we'll
defend our borders", and as chance would have it, a week
prior to our Federal Election last November, a media release
alleging that Boat People threatening to throw their children
overboard, when being intercepted by the Navy. This was the
opportunity for John Howard with all the moral indignation he
could muster to exclaim; "Do we want that sort of person
here"? The answer was a deafening No and an emphatic Yes to
re-election to Mr Howard. It is of little consequence that a
subsequent official Enquiry, Navy personnel confirmed there was
no truth to the media release -it never happened!!
Yes I urge politicians to make the Cause of refugees an issue,
but lets focus on the underlying causes. The idea of "closing
up Shop" is certainly not a Solution. The words of Daniel O’Connell
come to mind " What is morally wrong, can never be
politically correct". I further concur with you Editor when
you mention, how ironic it is that we have knocked on the doors
of many nations, and now we are reluctant to open our own door.
Is mise agus Beannachtai na Feile Padraig diobh go leir, Peter L
Question for Noel O’Flynn
I wonder if you would print another letter of mine as a sequence
of my recent letter in the Douglas Weekly ?-Yet again my
suffering goes on in the Filling-Station, as last Saturday night
I was attacked by (I am sorry to say that)yet again an Irish
individual ! I sold an 087 - 10 Euro Top- Up to him, but he came
back and said it did not work, so I gave him a new one but again
he said it wouldn't work and demanded his tenner back ! By this I
became suspicious that he is about to con me by telling me they
do not work but in reality he has 20 Euro Credit on his Mobile,
and wanting his money back would mean I would be betrayed of 30
Euro ! I refused to give him the 10 Euro back and told him to
ring the 087 -Helpline, but he got very shirty and abusive and
all of a sudden he came in behind the counter and grabbed my
Mobile as I was about to call the Garda ! I shouted at him to
give me back my phone and he did so but he turned and pinched a
10 Euro-Note from the float of the second till ! By that time my
colleague came to my assistance and when the attacker saw him he
dropped the Note and made his way out ,where his friend waited in
a car courtesy parked right in front of the hatch so I could
write down the Reg.-Number and could give it to the Garda who
arrived shortly afterwards !-So my question goes out again to
Noel O'Flynn, what steps is he going to do against such anti-social
and criminal behaviour and on the other hand protecting those who
just simply try to do their Job !
Stefan Schorr
In from the Windswept Seashore
Lashing waves are sweeping rocks, sand and cliff-sides and white
foam is everywhere in our home place ‘Baile an Cúainín’
– The Town of the Little Harbour - Myrtleville ! You are at
one with nature here, especially if your mood is turbulent. Later
will come the peace and calm and the smooth sea welcoming in the
warmer days.
We went to Douglas Court last Thursday “Himself” not
looking his best with a pixie-like woolly cap, never one to care
about peoples opinion! Indeed, I often looked better myself and
who was to greet us but Michael O’Hanlon with his candid
camera! Michael you are awful! Why don’t we meet you when we
look well ? You certainly caught us unawares We know you a long
time, just how long - remember those far off summer holidays when
, as a teenager you were in Regan’s Field ? Seán and I are
married almost 45 years. Beat that you youngsters, over two life
sentences ! Only joking! How did that snapshot turn
out ?
Joanna O’Shea
Drunken Teenagers
Michael,
I live in the Donnybrook area and the sight I see every weekend
has prompted me to write to you. It’s Underage Drinkers; we
see them every weekend. There must have been 20 teenagers in our
Park last Saturday night drinking out of cans and bottles, in
fact two boys were arrested. I witnessed the event and the boys
were lucky because a few residents were getting fairly annoyed
with the noise and general loitering that was going on. The
guards arrived just in time as a few fathers of young kids were
having words with the yobbos. This was at midnight, a lot of
young kids were asleep and you have these yobbos and yobettes
outside your door under the influence of drink. We see the cans
and bottles the next day on the road and the green. It’s
only a matter of time before somebody takes the law into their
own hands. How do these teenagers avoid being noticed coming in
blind drunk by their parents or do the parents even care. I think
the Guards have enough to be doing then to be called out every 5
minutes to move on a crowd of rowdy drunken teenagers. Be warned
it’s going to get worse. We need amenities to keep these
kids off the streets!
T.O.Sullivan.
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