General items relating to Blessington
Blessington Newsletter of October 2006

Green Party councillor Deirdre de Burca has described the contamination of water in Arklow at present as “bordering on the criminal” following numerous complaints made to her by angry Arklow residents.
De Burca reports receiving reports of a high percentage of Arklow residents suffering from nausea, stomach pains, and headaches since drinking tap-water following the flooding [...]

Following recent reports in the national media that the Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, used Ministerial power to intervene in the County Laois Development Plan, Green Party councillor Deirdre de Burca has called on Roche to intervene in bad planning decisions in his own County Wicklow.
According to de Burca, the Minister recently exercised his [...]

“People in Arklow today see the aftermath of another serious flood in their town. They must be asking themselves what has happened to the flood protection measures that their Fianna Fail representatives promised them. Joe Jacob and Dick Roche in their last 10 years as TDs for Wicklow have promised time and time again to [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, has bitterly criticised the failure of Bray Town Council officials to hand over the Harbour Shed to the Bray Boxing Club. De Burca points out that the councillors on Bray Town Council voted to hand the public building over to the Boxing Club in June 2005.
“It was clear from [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca has called on Wicklow County Council to retain the old library and county council offices site in Blessington for an Elderly Day Care Centre. Cllr de Burca made her call having seen correspondence from a senior council official, Mr Joe Lane, announcing that Wicklow County Council proposes to sell [...]

During a recent meeting of Wicklow County Council at which the council’s policy on advertising was discussed, senior council officials revealed that they have employed a PR consultant on a month-by-month contract over the past three years. Under questioning the council officials revealed that the post had not been put out to public tender.
Green Party [...]