Tackle the moronic 96FM listenership...

dahamsta

There's a (completely loaded) poll on bin charges on the 96FM site that let's you post comments. Be nice if people here posted a comment, so the entire city doesn't look like it's populated by the typical morons and racists that listen to Prendeville...

http://www.96fm.ie/newsroom/poll/

Seriously, can you imagine an, ahem, "non national" coming in and seeing the commentary there? They'd start looking around for banjos.

adam

damien

Love the trailing racism from Alfie there by the way. A Noel O`Flynn voter if every I saw one

Lol.

dahamsta

Didn't think they'd publish the first one, never mind the second...

Out of curiousity, who here has been getting the clear plastic recycling bags? The mother's been getting them in Ballinlough, but no sign here yet.

adam

dudara

Bin charges started on Jan 18th for us on the Mardyke near the Mercy, but no sign of the plastic recycling bags so far, and I already have two bin bags full in the kitchen of stuff to go into them

Adam- Just saw your photo, I passed a similar pile on Gilabbey Street, just at the junction with College Road. The council had just slapped a few stickers on the bags saying "Illegal dumping" and left them. Now they stink to high heaven.

damien

Adam, something very like your photo was in the Examiner today. People should be encouraged to mail all their photos to someone

you

who'll put them online. Then Google Bomb "Cork City of Culture".

dahamsta

Happy to host any photos people want to send me, especially if they contain nudity.

adam

nesf

dudara wrote:

Bin charges started on Jan 18th for us on the Mardyke near the Mercy, but no sign of the plastic recycling bags so far, and I already have two bin bags full in the kitchen of stuff to go into them

Adam- Just saw your photo, I passed a similar pile on Gilabbey Street, just at the junction with College Road. The council had just slapped a few stickers on the bags saying "Illegal dumping" and left them. Now they stink to high heaven.

I live on the other end of the Mardyke across from the UCC main gym. We got our plastic recycling bags ages ago. Why do I get the feeling that it's just going to be a half-assed attempt at doing this?

dahamsta

damien.m wrote:

Adam, something very like your photo was in the Examiner today.

Presumably it wasn't actually my photo? I certainly wasn't asked about it.

parsi

nesf wrote:

I live on the other end of the Mardyke across from the UCC main gym. We got our plastic recycling bags ages ago. Why do I get the feeling that it's just going to be a half-assed attempt at doing this?

We have had the recyling bags for around two months and in my estate it seems to be very successful - most fortnights houses have two or more bags out. The result is definitely less usage of the bin - we put the bin out last week for the first time in 3 weeks and others seem to be in a similar situation.

I know its a mantra but we have to pay bin charges thanks to the Govs obsession with reducing personal taxation - this suits mr rich pd supporter who pays less tax as a percentage of his income but affects mr low paid because he has to pay fixed charges that were once covered by his tax but are now extra. So if you earn 20,000 then 500 in bin charges is 2.5% but if you're on 200k its only .25% . So who benefits most .. ?

dudara

Nesf and I live on the same stretch of road, and one of us has plastic recycling bags and the other doesn't. It would nearly make you cry

Raskolnikov

dahamsta wrote:

Presumably it wasn't actually my photo? I certainly wasn't asked about it.

No, but it was like yours but taken from a different angle.

dudara

From todays Times

Cork council warning on rubbish
Barry Roche, Southern Correspondent




Cork city manager Joe Gavin yesterday insisted that the refuse situation in the city was under control. He confirmed that the council has already issued three fine notices for illegal dumping, with more fine notices due in the coming weeks.

He was satisfied that the refuse situation was under control, despite evidence of a small number of cases of people leaving out large numbers of bags of refuse which remain uncollected because they were untagged.

Last week, Cllr Chris O'Leary of the Green Party, along with Cllr Mick Barry, Socialist Party, and Sinn Féin Cllr Jonathan O'Brien and Cllr Annette Spillane, called on Mr Gavin to organise the collection of rubbish which had been uncollected because it was not tagged.

Mr Gavin reiterated yesterday that the council views the leaving of untagged refuse on the streets as littering and he warned anyone leaving out refuse which isn't properly tagged that they face a fine or prosecution for littering.

Mr Gavin confirmed that the council had collected untagged refuse in parts of the city in recent days but stressed it was part of their normal approach to illegal dumping and they would be investigating to establish who put out such waste.

"The amount of illegal dumping has increased - I couldn't quantify it but it has increased - and when illegal dumping takes place, as part of our normal regime, we collect litter and gather evidence to try and find who is responsible so we can fine or prosecute them," he said.

Green Party Cllr Chris O'Leary said that while he did not condone illegal dumping, he believed that the council should collect untagged waste as it was posing a health risk in a number of areas of the city.

dahamsta

Gavin talking out of his arse again. There's absolutely no way that bluffer can enforce this idiotic regime.

I was on Prendeville's show this morning about it, but prolly came off rather incoherent, since I only figured out what I was supposed to be doing when I heard Predeville's voice on the phone. Not a morning person. Anyway, here's a follow-up I sent shortly afterwards:

From: adam beecher
Sent: 09 February 2005 10:15
To: [email="neil@96fm.ie"]neil@96fm.ie[/email]
Subject: Margaret Street Update
 
I noted with interest while popping out for breakfast this morning that the 
rubbish in Margaret Street is gone, bar two wheelie bins with their lids up 
and one black bag. If you're talking to Mr. Gavin or one of his staff, I'd 
be curious as to whether:
 
a) his hard-line policy has changed;
b) everyone in Mags St made a donation; or
c) aliens have abducted our rubbish for use in medical experimentation.
 
I'm going with the aliens thing. But more importantly, what happens next 
week and next month? Is this a new policy being implemented by the our 
unelected City Manager, Joe Gavin? Where can I read it? Who voted on it's 
implementation?
 
I might add that only one Councillor had the courtesy to reply to my query, 
Patricia Gosch. Not a peep from Mick Barry, Catherine Clancy, Gary O'Flynn 
and Dan Wallace. Are they supposed to be representing me or themselves?
 
Cheers,
Adam Beecher