From: William Finnerty
To: Police Commissioner
Pat Byrne (Chief Officer, Garda Siochana)
Cc: President
Mary McAleese ; Attorney
General (Mr Michael McDowell)
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: Unwanted (and possibly unauthorised?) interference with Eircom web siteDear
Commissioner Byrne,
Earlier today (around 8 a.m.) I sent an e-mail to Eircom regarding what appears to me
as unwanted (and possibly unauthorised?) interference with the Internet web site
which Eircom host for me. This particular round of problems began for me several days ago
- i.e. on June 20th or 21st last. (At around 8.05 a.m. this morning I
forwarded copies of the e-mail in question to you, to President McAleese, and to
Attorney General Michael McDowell - which I assume have all been delivered by
now.)
Allowing for the fact that my Eircom web site was not available on the Internet this
morning, I cannot help feeling at present that the unwanted
interference referred to in the paragraph above MIGHT somehow be connected with my
ongoing efforts at protecting ancient monuments in the East County Galway area. A
very compressed version of the present situation regarding the overall heritage-site
difficulties I am working on can be seen in the third paragraph
of the e-mail I sent yesterday to Finance Minister Mr.Charlie McCreevy T.D. (My e-mail of
yesterday to Mr.Charlie McCreevy is reproduced below; and, as you will see, I later
forwarded copies of it to others.)
I would be very grateful to you if you could have the above mentioned matters
looked into for me please. I am self-employed; and the uninterrupted availability of the
full range of Eircom Internet services I normally use is extremely important to
me: some of which I am being deprived of - without warning, without
explanation, and without being given any idea at all of when - if at all - they are going
to be restored ??? In connection with an earlier round of Eircom web site
difficulties last October, I have already pointed out to a number of people at Eircom
that capricious behaviour of the type in question can (in my experience) be deemed
unlawful in certain circumstances.
As you probably know already, it is of course possible for me (or anybody else) to find
any number (almost) of organisations who host web sites (other than Eircom). However, I
would not wish to spend time (and money) changing to some other organisation: if, by some
chance, the unwanted interference with my Eircom web site of recent days is being carried
out legally (and by that I mean with full Government knowledge and lawful approval).
I wish to repeat (for the purpose of stressing) that I am self-employed; and that the
sooner you can provide me with clarification regarding the point raised in
the last sentence of the paragraph immediately above, the better it will be
for me.
I look forward to receiving a written response from you as soon as possible please.
In order to cover for the possibility of e-mail delivery problems, I intend to send a
full copy of this e-mail to you later today through the registered post (which includes a
copy of my e-mail below of yesterday to Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy).
Yours sincerely,
Mr. William Finnerty.
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Email: wfinnerty@eircom.net
Web site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/
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FOLLOWING SECTION CONTAINING COPY OF
E-MAIL
TO FINANCE MINISTER McCREEVY WAS
ADDED ON TO ABOVE
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----- Original Message -----
From: William
Finnerty
To: Junior
Minister Eamon O' Cuiv ; Michael D Higgins ; michael.kitt@oireachtas.ie
; Junior
Minister Bobby Molloy ; paul.connaughton@oireachtas.ie ; ulick.burke@oireachtas.ie
; padraic.mccormack@oireachtas.ie
; Junior
Minister Noel Tracey ; Cabinet Minister Frank Fahey
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:15 AM
Subject: Fw: ESB Athenry/Portumna Electricity Supply Project
Copies to Republic of Ireland
Opposition Parties: |
----- Original Message -----
From: William
Finnerty
To: Labour
Party ; Fine Gael ; Sinn Fein ; Green Party ; Democratic Left
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: Fw: ESB Athenry/Portumna Electricity Supply Project
Copies to members of the Republic
of Ireland media: |
----- Original Message -----
From: William
Finnerty
To: TV3 ; Tuam Herald ; TG4 (Newsdesk) ; Sunday Business Post ; RTE (Irish National TV Station)
; Irish Times
; Irish Independent Newspaper Group
(Unison) ; Irish Examiner Newspaper ; Irish Emigrant Newspaper ; Ireland On Sunday
; Galway
Advertiser Editor (Mr Declan Varley) ; Connacht Tribune Editor (Mr John Cunningham) ; Galway Bay FM (local Radio
Station)
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:45 AM
Subject: Fw: ESB Athenry/Portumna Electricity Supply Project
From: William Finnerty
To: Minister Charlie McCreevy
Cc: Prime Minister Bertie Ahern ; Deputy Prime Minister Mary
Harney ; Minister Noel Dempsey ; Minister Michael Smith ; Minister Mary
O'Rourke ; Minister Joe Walsh ; Minister James McDaid ; Minister
Frank Fahey ; Minister Dermot Ahern ; Minister Brian
Cowen ; Justice
Minister John O'Donoghue ; Heritage Minister Sile de Valera ; Health
Minister Micheal Martin ; Minister Michael Woods
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:41 AM
Subject: ESB Athenry/Portumna Electricity Supply Project
Your Ref: 01/0459/MF
Dear Minister McCreevy,
I feel very grateful to you for the acknowledgement of receipt (dated June 22nd
2001) sent to me by Ms Hannah O' Riordan, and for the knowledge that the contents of
my letter regarding the ESB Athenry/Portumna Electricity Supply Project have been noted in
your Department.
It is very nice to know that a person in your kind of position is taking account
of what ordinary voters such as myself have to say; and I believe there are a great
many others who will feel the same.
With regard to all of the four major civil engineering
projects being talked about at present for the East County Galway area, my hope now
is that you and your Government colleagues will ensure that no monies are released
(for the implementation of these projects) to organisations such as the Electricity
Supply Board, the National Roads Authority, the Gas Board, and the Galway County Council
(for the possible "Superdump for Connacht" project): until such time as you have
satisfied yourselves that the laws relating to heritage protection will all be fully
implemented and upheld by those responsible for carrying out whatever work is
involved.
With reference to the paragraph above, the two particular laws mostly on my mind are
the ones listed below:
THE
NATIONAL MONUMENTS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1994
THE HERITAGE ACT 1995
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to point out that I have received no
feedback at all so far from the Garda Síochána regarding any of the heritage
matters referred in my e-mail reminder to them of May 28th 2001 (which is
reproduced at the www page address immediately below):
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/gd-si-2.htm
Yours sincerely,
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Email: wfinnerty@eircom.net
Web site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/
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