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Cllr. Donnelly expresses regret that Cork Swansea ferry service will not resume until 2010

6^th May 2009

Cllr. Dominick Donnelly, Green Party member of Passage West Town Council and candidate for Cork County Council, has expressed regret that the new Cork to Swansea ferry service, which has been backed by a Cork based co-operative, will not now start its service until 2010.

Cllr. Dominick Donnelly, who is an investor in the co-operative backing the ferry, said: “It is a great pity that the operators were not able to get this service up and running this year. However they were always going to be up against the wire time-wise, and the delays in sorting out the purchase of the ferry Julia in Finland have made it impossible to get up and running in time for the main season this year. I wish to congratulate all of those who have put in enormous work to try to get this going this year, and we must all now be patient, and wait till next year to see this vital service up and running.”

“With the airline industry in an inevitable long slow decline due to climate change and rising oil prices, it is vital that our ferry and shipping links are developed. We are an island, and shipping will be absolutely essential for trade and tourism in the years and decades to come. Those behind the resumption of the Cork Swansea ferry service will be seen to be visionaries in the future. It is the only form of international transport which the planet can sustain,” Cllr. Donnelly concluded.

Any posters erected before midnight should all receive fines of €150 each say Cork Greens

Published May 6, 2009 Environment , Litter , Local Elections Leave a Comment

5^th May 2009 11 pm

The Cork Green Party has expressed its absolute disgust at all the many candidates who have broken the law and started putting up their election posters before midnight of Tuesday night. As of Tuesday evening there are countless posters around the city area, from members of all the main parties except the Green Party.

On behalf of his Green Party colleagues, Cllr. Dominick Donnelly said: “Any candidate who started putting up their posters before midnight on Tuesday has shown a complete disregard for the law, and is therefore not fit to be elected. The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government issued very clear instructions to all parties as to the rules around postering. I have witnessed European election posters up well before midnight for Fine Gael (the so-called Law and Order party) candidates Sean Kelly and Colm Burke, Labour candidate Alan Kelly, Sinn Fein candidate Toireasa Ferris and independent candidate Kathy Synnott, as well as for local election candidates Seamus McGrath (Fianna Fail), Tim Lombard (Fine Gael) and Donncha O Laoghaire (Sinn Fein). Cork City and County Councils must act on this, and must be seen to act on this. Otherwise these cheats are just making a mockery of the law, and thereby the electorate, and they are clearly not fit for public office,” Cllr. Donnelly said.

“The City and County Councils must impose the fines of €150 for each poster. To do otherwise would be negligent in the extreme, and would open the door to future gross neglect of the litter laws. I have a number of photographs of posters taken before midnight on Tuesday, which will all be sent in to the relevant local authority, and I ask any members of the public with similar evidence to do likewise. Each and all of the offences should be pursued, and the fines imposed should form part of the candidates official election expenditure. In sport, if someone starts a race early they get disqualified, or at least a heavy penalty. The same should apply to candidates who cannot abide by a very simple rule” Cllr. Donnelly concluded.

[ENDS]

Cllr. Dominick Donnelly (Carrigaline area of Cork County Council and Passage West Town Council), on behalf of fellow Green Party candidates Mick Murphy (Cork City South West), Mary Ryder (Cork City South Central), Stephen Crowley (Cork City South East) and Mark Collins (Macroom area of Cork County Council).

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