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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22I think Bertie denied knowledge of this guys misdemeanors. When you think of it: The sheer neck of this prick to embarrass The Taoiseach in this manner by inviting him to the site. Or maybe Bertie knew about the dumping carry on. Either way it says a lot about F.F. and their shady cosiness with shysters and crooks in the business community.
Bertie knew who this crook was. Moriarty used to have a company on the land where the financial centre in the docks is now. How could Bertie not know him when a deal was done to get him out of there as part of the FF redevelopment ?
There were very public announcements about Moriarty a few years ago, everybody in the country knew who he was. He was the first case of it's kind, prosecuted for his dumping and told to pay for a clean up (which was not done ). In this age of waste awareness if Bertie did not know he is stupid. Or more likely, he is a liar, breaking bread with the FF Kerry mafia.
Yerra whats rong with ye. He did no harum to anyone. The locals love him. Sure an doesnt everyone love a bit of a wheeler deeler. the same as they love berty and Charlie before him
Its called 'race against waste' its the FF version of -Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle.
{except it is to do with wealth, crony protection and corruption.}
Close a glass-works in Ringsend (property values) spend millions shipping it
out of Ireland to 'Recycle' it and then make pretty TV ads about the 'Race against waste'
=low level corruption.
In FF high -level corruption is about money re-cycling and keeping your pals happy.
They are in power to long and the fiddle is an art form.
International re-cycling- CRH and that big fucking wall in Gaza.
CRH and the illegal dumps.
CRH and the money lobby.
*This is not a democracy and you are being screwed*
(oh -and you can build an incinerator in a low vote catchment area too, easy, just get the minister for
justice to Lobby on SIB, 'adapt' the courts and planning authorities to suit the lobby and legislate
for it). no-one really cares except the generation that is being brought up and have to deal with the shit we let them get away with.
I wonder what is the name of the new hotel.Obviously the Indo did not want to "name and shame" it.
Rumour has it that Bertie wore the same hat in a certain tent at a certain race-meeting - How appropriate!!!!
How can we repeatedly let them get away with ?
I was up on the Hill of Tara and witnessed the NRA "archeologists " at work. Why is the NRA allowed to decide what is and what is not a national monument?
We have constantly asked for independant archeologists to be allowed to inspect the 38 sites which are currantly being demolished by the NRA. Our requests have fallen on deaf ears.
Its not coincidental that all of the landowners who rushed to buy the land there in recent years, have strong alliences with FF.
Not content to prostitute our Neutrality and our civil liberties. It seems that they are now Hellbent on destroying the Heart and Soul of our Heritage and Culture.
Even the Brits had more respect than that.
Indeed Siobhan - Reads like an Irish version of Animal Farm!!!
Ireland on Sunday newspaper had a good piece on this yesterday. Seems the residents group in East Wall had taken on this guy Moriarty a few years back , and run him out of buisness . Who was in the middle of it all, only our friend Bertie, telling both sides he was helping them out. The paper has seen letters proving Bertie had written letters and signed them, to locals, the planning authorities , the epa and Moriarty himself. Will his lies catch him out or will he get away with this again. With the Minister Dick Roach saying how tough he is on illegal dumping will he issue a statement condemning Bertie ?
Is this Mr. Moriarty by any chance a relative of the John Moriarty (also in the building business0 and from Kerry) embroiled in the national scandal that is the hijacking of our National Aquatic centre which is in the courts at the moment with the government????
Mr Moriartys two children patrick & Louise are or were heavily involved in Irish cycling at one stage. Please check this link which i dug up which shows the filthy countryman´s better side !! Maybe he should have stuck to cycling instead of destroying the Irish countryside.
http://www.irishcycling.com/2000/road/03/home.htm
It apperars Bertie Ahearn has no problem meeting all sorts of Irish criminals, Baily Brothers, Haughty, Burke. P.and Bevely Flynn, Mc Daid, Wright, Moriarity etc.
With an endemicly corrupt Garda force to protect him and his criminal friends he actually now believes he is now untouchable.Lets remove him from office and get him before the criminal courts.
This gang of criminals must be removed from office at the next election.
Moriarity certainly has put Sneem on the map. We need great men like him to build fine hotels for everyone especially us exiles - fair play to him - at least he doesn't sit around on his backside complaining like you lot.. You are only jealous of the great man from Sneem -
Those fines are so low- it shows to developers crime pays!
1,500 fine for years of illegal dumping and charging huge money to do it- they should look at his profits and fine accordingly..
Pity poor Kerry.. He will pollute there too!!
The bigger question is why this guy wasnt forced to do a clean up like CRH have been forced to do at Blessington. This would cost millions.
Can anyone fromIndimediam tll e What is the diffference between Politics.ie & this website?
I know this is not related to any subject here.
A good entertaining radio show with James Whale on a t 10 : 00 on 0108 digital , Talk Sport. He is some character. Calls a spade aSpade!! Listen to him now he'sso good
As a visitor to the lovely village of Sneem I have to say I found the Sneem Hotel a wonderful place to stay, staff very professional and friendly, food excellent, rooms very comforable and with wonderful views. We are not interested in the politics surrounding the owner or the hotel, just to say how impressed we were with the new hotel. As frequent visitors to Sneem we would say it is a badly needed amenity and long overdue.
Good luck to all concerned and we hope to stay in the hotel again and again.
By the way we were not impressed with the state of the village, all that building and rushing about, dust, lorries, smell. Unfortunately it is no longer a peaceful haven. Hopefully when all the madness is over the place will at least return to some normality. Please don't spoil lovely Sneem.
To the poor misguided tourist above who is not concerned about the politics surrounding the hotel or the owner, I hope you didn't go for a swim in the Sneem River flowing past the hotel. The Sneem Hotel opened early this year with NO sewage treatment (despite this being a condition of planning nothing has been done about it to date). There is a thick brown slick that extends well out into Kenmare Bay and is effectively killing the Sneem Estuary (an SAC). The hotel has connected illegally to Sneem's outdated sewage system (two small septic tanks built in the 50's and overloaded even without the extra load) and is pumping thousands of gallons of untreated sewage into the river daily. Fortunately enough, it is a reasonably large river and can successfully remove the problem from the hotel and village and no-one need worry about it - especially ignorant tourists only too delighted to stay in the remnants of a once beautiful and unspoilt part of our countryside.
I did a bit of research on this topic of who pays for the clean up and guess what... despite the popular belief that it is us poor taxpayers who cary the can... this was not the situation in this particular case. The people who did the deed, pleaded guilty, took the wrap, and did the cleanup, (all under the supervision of the Council, the EPA and the Courts). So I guess they did the decent thing. (Even though they did wrong they took the wrap, and paid the penalty). I think that's fair enough. They should not have done the dirty in the first place, but at least they had the decency to accepty responsibility and pay for the clean up.
Shame on you in the first place, but well done on doing the decent thing.
On top of this as far as I can find out they no longer run a waste business.
Now if everyone who did wrong took this approach we would have a wonderful country.
Mr. Clean up is right,
Mr. Moriarty did remove all the illegally dumped waste as directed by the Courts. Cost a bomb to remove, probably a multiple of the original cost if it was deposed of correctly. You are also correct in saying that he is no longer in the waste business.
I do think that a lot of people are contributing to various themes without much knowledge about this situation or others for that matter. Remember, loose talk is dangerous and harmful. Go to the trouble of making yourself aware of the facts first and then comment.
I visited the hotel lately and was very impressed with the entire operation. Judging by the pictures Mr. Moriarty has worked all his life to be able to fund such a hotel and what a brave move to invest all his money into a venture in the area where he immigrated from many years ago.
To plug his sewerage outlet into the local river and "externalise" his tourist shit. Then have the gaul to post here, saying how great a guy he is. Some people!!
The state of the Sneem River is not all down to Moriarity, what about the other developers? The outdated sewerage system (1957 installed) should have been seen to long before any new construction was planned. In 1990 my 15yr old child was poisoned in the river by the Goosey Island campsite after a short swim, resulting in severe sickness. Surely the penpushers in the Council should have the foresight to see that the system needed replacing. The whole situation is a mess, that is true. Mr Moriarity has provided Sneem with a long overdue facility for visitors in providing an excellent Hotel which is accessible to everyone. We do not accept he is totally to blame for polluting the river. Blame the County Council and all those who should have foreseen the problems.