Ferry's Refuse

muffler · 07-07-2020 12:35pm

Young Ferry has been quiet for a while but all that has changed now that he is hitting back at the opposition

Technique · 07-07-2020 1:26pm

So the defence seems to be 'so what if I was illegally burying waste, there's another refuse company that doesn't have proper planning permission for their building'.

Is that it?

muffler · 07-07-2020 2:28pm

Technique wrote: »

So the defence seems to be 'so what if I was illegally burying waste, there's another refuse company that doesn't have proper planning permission for their building'.

Is that it?

Looks to be something along those lines alright and also claiming pollution of an adjacent river. The exact facts should emerge when the case progresses at a later date.

HeidiHeidi · 07-07-2020 3:30pm

muffler wrote: »

Looks to be something along those lines alright and also claiming pollution of an adjacent river. The exact facts should emerge when the case progresses at a later date.

I just feel sorry for Judge Meenan..... between Gemma and this fella his head must be melted, I'd say he's just dying for a normal boring case for once!

donegal_man · 16-02-2021 1:58pm

Looks like the chickens are finally coming home to roost

https://www.thejournal.ie/jim-ferry-donegal-high-court-5355842-Feb2021/

muffler · 17-02-2021 12:23am

donegal_man wrote: »

Looks like the chickens are finally coming home to roost

https://www.thejournal.ie/jim-ferry-donegal-high-court-5355842-Feb2021/

Some interesting comments made by the judge.

Firblog · 22-02-2021 11:43pm

The way that the county council have (mis)managed the oversight of waste companies in the county is shocking; has anything ever been done about the dumping highlighted in the RTE expose a few years ago? AFIK Ferry is the only one they have ever brought to court, and then probably only because he was so blatantly breaking the rules.

The sooner the govt cop on and integrate a waste charge into the household tax the better it'll be for the environment, esp here in Donegal where you can hardly walk a couple of miles down a country road without coming across a bag of rubbish in a ditch.

echo beach · 25-02-2021 6:48pm

Firblog wrote: »

The sooner the govt cop on and integrate a waste charge into the household tax the better it'll be for the environment, esp here in Donegal where you can hardly walk a couple of miles down a country road without coming across a bag of rubbish in a ditch.

Waste charges encourage illegal dumping but there are a lot of bottles and cans dumped although you can dispose of them for free at bring banks.

Firblog · 28-02-2021 2:26pm

echo beach wrote: »

Waste charges encourage illegal dumping but there are a lot of bottles and cans dumped although you can dispose of them for free at bring banks.

The only time waste charges encourage illegal dumping is when you have an option about paying them. If every household paid for waste collection - collected via property tax - then why would you dump?

Mate of mine has house up in Belfast, £1K per year property tax, I went to help in do up his house one weekend, ripped out kitchen, bathroom, put all in the back of my van and drove to the waste centre on a Sunday, directed to the best bay for each type of waste, and unloaded all - no fuss, no charge because it had already been paid for by property tax. Here you'd be looking for skips from waste company, thinking about having to pay €100's to get rid, temptation to dump grows with the price it costs to dispose of it.

retalivity · 14-03-2021 2:08pm

Jim's gone full trump-mode on Facebook:

HeidiHeidi · 14-03-2021 3:00pm

There's a fair smack of Pee Flynn off those posts

muffler · 14-03-2021 3:13pm

All I can say is thankfully Im not on Facebook otherwise there would be some home truths levied at our Jim

Pique · 14-03-2021 11:20pm

Landfill of 700k? Erm???

Suppliers 240k? Suppliers of what exactly?

Also, Ferrys had 11000 residential customers. At about 25 per month that's 3.3m euro. That's not counting the 500 commercial customers whose prices I have no idea.

06-12-2021 6:41pm

Jims latest adventures in court.

Mod: Link snipped as per forum charter.

Can you post an alternative link to the story?

muffler · 08-12-2021 1:57pm

Story here in Donegal Live.

DrPhilG · 08-12-2021 2:01pm

Awww, persecuting the poor fella. Lol

donegal_man · 14-03-2022 8:30pm

Jim and daughter sent forward for trial. Legal aid granted to both.

www.breakingnews.ie/amp/ireland/donegal-businessman-and-daughter-to-stand-trial-on-illegal-dumping-charges-1273835.html

Pique · 14-03-2022 9:42pm

Conviction on indictment (circuit court) penalties under the Waste Management Act are "a fine not exceeding £10,000,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, or to both such fine and such imprisonment"

41 Offences and the evidence is pretty incontravertable means auld Jimmy boy wil be sweating now.

Firblog · 15-03-2022 12:17am

Most they'll get is 5 - 10K fine each, we don't do jailing people for polluting the environment in Ireland.

Pique · 15-03-2022 1:52am

5k fine for each of 41 offences is a lot of money though. If he acts the bollix like he has done he could easily see jailtime.

Out of interest, has there been a large waste polluter caught as red-handed as him previously and what happened to them?

Ferry's Refuse

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