Donations

May 19th, 2009

As a party that does not take corporate donations (of any kind) no brown envelopes etc. we receive 100% of our funding from supporters. 

This campaign is being run on an very economical budget but we require funding from all our supports that we meet. So if you are on FaceBook this Blog please support us.

You may have met me at a public meeting (yes we do face to face also! The Socialist Party have organised more public meetings in our ward than all sitting councillors put together over the past 5 years) postering leafleting and campaigning cost money. 

Please donate as generously as you can.  And thanks in advance.


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council still failing Baldoyle?

May 10th, 2009

[update: May 11th ] Council do U-turn on the depot. Under pressure from the residents and club, the council has been forced to u-turn and grant Dubh Ghall a licence to use the depot building! GREAT NEWS. The local councillors met with the relevant departments prior to the very last meeting of this council (before the elections) and the councillors extracted this ‘concession’ from the council.  Questions that need to be asked: Why was this such a difficult task for the community, as it is WIN WIN for Baldoyle AND why did this not happen a year ago? The answer to both those questions is that for many years Baldoyle has for all intents and purposes has been without representation at council. Elect a Baldoyle councillor on June 5th by Electing Brian Greene to FCC.

Following the Socialist Party public meeting (30/04) to discuss the abandoned depot & Seagrange park, council officials met with Dubh Ghall reps at the site. Unfortunately the council departments have still failed to offer the use of the building to the club.

The bigger picture is the councils intent for the Brickfield lands under the review of the next development plan. We continue to work closely with the community thorough residents associations & sporting organisations to halt any plan to build on the flood plain at Seagrange / Parkvale.

The depot has been is use for 30+ years I lived in Parkvale for 12 of these years, and it really became an issue when the council stopped using the compound 12 months ago when they left the gates wide open for serious anti social behavior. 

Brian Greene pictured outside the depot with local Dubh Ghall players after the medal ceremony at the recent Easter camp.

From malahide howth

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ReBlog: Fianna Fail – Party of the Vulture Capitalists

May 2nd, 2009

via@JoeHiggins.EU

Fianna Fail has been found out – clearly and comprehensively – and it is hurting badly as a result. Never before in the 83 years since it was formed has the party stood so bereft of camouflage to cloak its real nature.

Fianna Fail lived a lie for so much of its history that it arrogantly assumed it could never be exposed in he way it now is. It was a party of the gombeen when that class had its fingers on the majority of greasy tills in the newly formed state.

It became the party of the speculators and the developers from the 1960s when groups of assorted cowboys of that ilk saw big opportunities with the ending of protectionism and the beginnings of economic development based on foreign investment. They bought Fianna Fail which has remained in their pockets through the bribed rezonings of the ‘Eighties and ‘Nineties. It went further in its most recent period in power since 1997 and handed 20% of the economy fully over to them to profiteer as they wished. Read the rest of this entry »

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more buses cut under FF/GP

May 1st, 2009

Far from being an F1 GP it is life in the sow lane for Dubliners under FF/GP. Dublin Bus have cut more runs on the 128 route that runs out of Baldoyle. The route that sparked the recent dispute where workers conditions and communities battered bus service was at the forefront of the minds of the bus workers. 

Fianna Fail & the Green Party are responsible for the following routes to dropped. 15x, 27c, 31c, 49x, 50x, 51a, 65x, 79x, 86, 115, 117, 129, 172, 201, 202, 206 These low level services were already in areas of most need and little service and now they are dropped. 

The following routes have have had service reductions (less buses) 14, 14a, 18, 27, 27x, 37, 37x, 38/a, 39/a/c, 39x, 41/a, 46c, 46d, 47, 48a, 51, 51d, 51x, 77, 77a, 77x, 84x, 84x, 116, 118, 128, 150, 161, 210
 

Dublin Bus Serving the entire community

Dublin Bus Serving the entire community

The Socialist Party believes that a public transport system that is publicly owned should not be let run down by this FF/GP government. We stand shoulder to shoulder with communities fighting for services and also with bus workers fighting to protect services, their working conditions and their jobs. 

 

Dublin Bus is cutting 120 buses from the fleet. Some deluded members of the Green Party believe that bus routes would not be cut while the buses were scrapped and jobs lost. They can not call for jobs and public transport on the Northside and preside over this disaster. 

Dublin Bus Severing the entire community

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ABANDONED COUNCIL DEPOT: Seagrange Park

April 23rd, 2009

PUBLIC MEETING

APRIL 30th 8pm
Boys National School, Brookstone Road.

DERELICTION: DUMPING : DRUGS
ABANDONED COUNCIL DEPOT
A SERIOUS PROBLEM

over the past 10 months the abandoned council depot at Seagrange Park has become more derelict, has experience increasing fly tipping and has now been raided by Gardaí with dogs looking for drugs. The perimeter wall has been broken and security compromised. What is surprising is that this is a Fingal County Council facility that has been left unattended and unlocked for the majority of the time.

We are seeing serious planned dereliction by the council, creating a security risk and a health hazard and an eye sore. Use of depot compound was promised to local GAA club Dubh Ghall as far back as last summer but provision of the site to the club has not materialised. The depot is on land which I am told is leased by the council and sits on an area of land that is zoned open space / recreational adjoining the Brickfield land and Seagrange Park that is prone to flooding and forms part of the flood plain.

Previous plans by the council and developers to rezone the land for development of high rise have be set back by the action of the community, local residents associations and the assistance of the Socialist Party Councillors and local rep. Brian Greene.

Their running down of this facility and the failure to date to see it put to better community use (which would help secure it) asks serious question for the councils intent for this area.

The Socialist Party is continuing to working with local sports associations and residents to put maximum pressure on Council and local Councillors to see that this depot is properly maintained cleaned & secured and put to better community use in keeping with its zoning.

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public meeting: Drynam Hall

April 15th, 2009

As the economic crisis worsens and following the emergency budget at the beginning of the month the urgency to address the issue of Management Companies remains very high. The majority of residents object to paying the charge as a matter of principle. Now with rising direct & indirect taxes, pay cuts and job losses many more cannot afford to pay!. It is an absolute disgrace that the Fianna Fail / Green Party government has failed despite promises to bring forward legislation to deal with the injustice of estate management fees.  

On the completion of a residents door to door & postal survey of homes in Drynam Hall, a public meeting will discuss the findings and the way forward for the majority of residents seeking the removal of the management company. If you can get along please join us.

Kinsealy Inn
Thursday April 23rd
8PM

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Brian Greene Budget comment

April 8th, 2009

Brian Greene Socialist Party candidate Malahide / Howth Ward

‘Fairness must be the cornerstone of all our efforts to achieve economic renewal,’ so said Finance Minister Brian Lenihan in his Budget Speech.  A monstrous political lie because he went on to announce the most unfair, savage and immoral Budget in the history of the State.

With rising unemployment, the slashing of the jobseekers allowance by €100 per week is a vicious attack on young working class people. The workers on North Dublin are being asked to bailout the bankers, the builders and their government friends, we say NO.

Ninety years ago James Connolly said, ‘The time for patching up the capitalist system is past, it must go.’ and Brian Greene says this Fianna Fail / Green Party government should go with it.

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Baldoyle Library v Croke Park

March 27th, 2009

Fingal County Council’s Baldoyle Library and Local Area Office (home of malahide howth area meetings) is shortlisted alongside Croke Park in prestigious architects awards. 

the IrishTimes reports 

Two other public projects – Dublin City Council’s pumphouse facing the end of Vernon Avenue in Clontarf, and Fingal County Council’s Baldoyle Library and Local Area Office – have merited inclusion in the shortlist for dePaor Architects and FKL Architects, respectively.

Finally, Gilroy McMahon Architects have been shortlisted for the spectacular redevelopment of Croke Park, which the jury hailed as “a landmark in the historical, cultural and architectural landscape of Dublin . . . with the necessary sense of occasion and grandeur”.

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People power delivers

March 27th, 2009

Dublin Bus Serving the entire community

Dublin Bus Serving the entire community

Fingal Independent reports

Community pressure, rather than ‘waffle from politicians’, delivers, a local election candidate has said in a row over the fate of a bus route.

The Green Party’s Swords candidate, Ken Duffy accused the Socialist Party of ‘pressing people’s panic buttons’ earlier this month after a leaflet announcing proposed bus route cuts was distributed in a Swords estate.

In a message from the Socialist Howth/ Malahide candidate, Brian Greene, residents of Holywell were told the 142 route was to be ’slashed’ and were urged to put maximum pressure on Government parties. Mr Duffy dismissed the claims as ’scaremongering’. In response, the Socialists said they had spoken to Dublin Bus shop stewards last week, who were still in talks with the company and said a new duty to cover the 142 service is to be included, as part of a deal on new rosters and working arrangements.

‘We salute the efforts of residents in the communities and the bus drivers in their campaign to ensure that the maximum number of bus routes and jobs are protected from management’s cost-cutting programme at Dublin Bus,’ Mr Greene said.

‘A new rostering arrangement was worked out in the LRC which enabled the 142 to continue to be undertaken in the evening. This shows that the pressure with regard to this route is having an impact.’

UPDATE: The saving of this route is part of a deal that will have the driver on duty on the 142 working a 13 hour shift. The deal between the company & unions  was rejectect by workers. Dublin Bus will put in place the revised cuts this weekend. And service disruption is expected. I wonder how safe it is to drive a bus on a 13 hour shift? 

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Law & Order

March 20th, 2009

Cash stolen in raid on Howth post office

[20/03/2009] Gardai are investigating a robbery at the post office in Howth, North Co Dublin, this morning. Two men entered the premises shortly before 10am and smashed the glass partition at the counter. They then escaped with an undisclosed sum of money.

The raiders were in their late teens and early 20s. Gardaí are appealing for anyone with any information to come forward.

garda_siochanaUnder Section 36 of the Garda Siochana Act 2005, Joint Policing Committees were established to provide a forum where a Local Authority & the senior Garda officers responsible for the policing of that area, with the participation of Oireachtas members & community interests can consult, discuss & make recommendations on matters affecting policing of that area. And sometimes they meet in public. It just happens that they are meeting down the road from the Howth Post Office in the Marine Hotel Sutton on next Wednesday March 25th at 19:30pm.

from the press advert: 

Fingal Joint Policing Committee Notice of Public Meeting

A public meeting will be hosted by the Fingal Joint Policing Committee for the Howth/Sutton/Baldoyle area: The Marine Hotel, Sutton Cross, Dublin 13 at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday 25th March, 2009 

Residents of the Howth/Sutton/Baldoyle area are invited to attend the meeting to make observations and address questions to the members of the Fingal Joint Policing Committee on matters relating to crime and anti-social behaviour with a view to improving public safety within local communities.

Written questions may also be submitted in advance by residents of the Howth/Sutton/Baldoyle area to: Fingal Development Board, P.O. Box 174, County Hall, Main Street, Swords, Co. Dublin or to jpc@fingalcoco.ie no later than Friday 20th March, 2009 at 5.00 p.m.

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