Cllr. Kieran Dennison: May 2010

Lack of landing strip at Dublin hospital is 'unacceptable'

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Mark Hilliard - Sunday Tribune

Beaumont Hospital: patients flown to Dublin airport and transferred

IRELAND'S specialist neurological hospital has been criticised for airlifting patients to Dublin Airport before transferring them up the M1 motorway by ambulance because it does not have landing facilities on site.

Senior ambulance personnel said that while a number of other hospitals have landing sites, they can no longer use them as they are outdated and unsuitable for modern aircraft.

A football pitch on the Beaumont campus, which had been used for landing patients in the past, was replaced with a car park.

Fine Gael Cllr Kieran Dennison criticised the situation at a recent meeting of the Dublin and North Eastern Health Forum and said it was unacceptable that patients could not be airlifted straight to Beaumont.

Garristown Water Supply Update - Thursday 27th MAY: 10am

Friday, May 28, 2010

I recieved the following update at 4.30pm on the water supply problem in the North of the County.

Government trying to reinvent Economic History

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Government Ministers over the last fortnight have been trying to rewrite economic history. Included in this rhetoric is repeated (wrong) assertion that we were in favour of abolishing stamp duty, and that we wanted more government spending. The quotes below from Richard Bruton’s responses to budget debates in the years between 2004 and 2009 highlight our approach to the budget and national finances.

DISRUPTION TO WATER SUPPLY - Malahide/Portmarnock/Drynam/Kinsealy Areas

Saturday, May 22, 2010

EMERGENCY UPDATE 6pm SUNDAY 23rd MAY

DISRUPTION TO WATER SUPPLY Malahide/Portmarnock/Drynam/KinsealySunday 23rd May/Monday 24th May 2010

Emergency restrictions will be applied to water supplies in these areas overnight from 10pm on Sunday 23rd May until the 8am on Monday 24th May to allow reservoirs serving these areas to fill.

Train station name confusion makes monkeys of tourists - Tribune

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Sunday Tribune

Mark Hilliard

Phoenix Park station: nowhere near the Phoenix Park

DISORIENTATED tourists visiting the Phoenix Park are regularly left scratching their heads at least a kilometre away from their destination due to ongoing confusion over train station names.

Local politicians say that because of the misleading naming of the Phoenix Park stop, those unfamiliar with the city have been going to the wrong one, and finding themselves left with a considerable walk.

Iarnród Éireann says that while it had not received many comments on the situation lately it is prepared to examine signage at Ashtown, the station closer to the park, "to indicate its proximity".

"The station was funded by the developers of the Phoenix Park residential development, hence its name," a spokesman said.

However, local councillor Kieran Dennison said complaints were regular and the number of official comments to the company was probably not reflective of the true situation. When this opened the developer had to build it as a condition of building apartments, he said.

"It was called the Phoenix Park train station but it is a kilometre away from the park and the actual train station that serves the park is Ashtown.

"Tourists are getting on the train and going to the Phoenix Park, getting off and finding that they have gone at least a kilometre too far.

"There have been complaints. People have mentioned it in the locality. We are probably not even getting the level of complaints that we could have."

Iarnród Éireann said that while it would look at the issue, the majority of tourists visiting the park do so from the entrance near Heuston Station.

Meanwhile, the company has said that a recent inability to refund machine tickets to rail users at Connolly Station was due to a "misunderstanding".

Customers looking for reimbursements on unused tickets were being told that if they bought them from the automatic machines they were unable

to receive over-the-counter refunds.

A spokesman explained the company was seeking to collect information on refunds recorded in a specific way and this was misinterpreted by staff as not being possible for machine-bought tickets. Instead, forms were filled out and processed.

"Staff will be rebriefed so that tickets not yet used can be refunded over the counter," he said.

May 2, 2010

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