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Residents’ ongoing nightmare
25 March 2005
HOPEFULLY, as you are reading this, the Shandon area close to the Fraher Field GAA grounds will be a “traveller free zone”.
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A contradiction in terms
18 March 2005
There’s an age old saying that “it’s better to be born lucky than rich’’. That may well be the thought running through the minds of seven of our elected county councillors and the county manager as they prepare to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in the Big Apple.
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Perplexed, bewildered and angry
11 March 2005
The saga of the Ballyneety pylons has dragged on now for the bones of five years. Yes, the same towering steel pylons the ESB erected within a stone’s throw of Frankie and Monnie Drummey’s neat, single storey, home with the blessing of the Planning Dept. of Waterford County Council.
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Ball remains in Fianna Fáil’s court
04 March 2005
THE red-hot issue of radiotherapy will not go away and will remain alive and active right up to the next general election in which Fianna Fail will be defending the two seats the party won with such authority in this constituency last time out.
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Beyond all reasonable comprehension
25 February 2005
OF all the matters raised and highlighted in the column over all the years of its existence, there never has been a readership reaction to match that which followed our disclosure of two weeks ago of a well known local criminal being a guest of the taxpayer in a high class and very upmarket “B & B” establishment in the western end of the county.
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A tension-filled estate
18 February 2005
THE first thing that needs to be said is that the vast majority of the residents of Cathal Brugha Place are decent and law-abiding citizens.
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Taxing the taxpayer
11 February 2005
THE story I’m about to relate is one that will hardly warm the cockles of the hearts of taxpayers who are already burdened to the hilt. Some, understandably, may find it to be an incredulous tale, but believe me there is nothing “made up’’ about it.
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A tremendous sense of relief
04 February 2005
Here in Dungarvan, as in the rest of our constituency, there’s a tremendous sense of relief that Martin Cullen has survived what had the potential to be a political holocaust for him.
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Peter Carey will be a huge loss
28 January 2005
FOR all of a decade our county has been an immeasurable beneficiary of the multiple administrative and leadership talents of Peter Carey.
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These charges will not be approved
21 January 2005
HOW prophetic last week’s column proved to be. Our prediction that the nine elected members of our Town Council would NOT adopt the 2005 book of estimates as presented by the county manager was spot on.
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