you can buy anyone.
The BBC reports that a bridge in Rotterdam will be “temporarily” dismantled to allow a yacht built for Jeff Bezos’ to pass through.
Funny how they didn’t consider the height of the yacht before building it.
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Author: ewan.duffy
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We never learn
RTE reports that €35m of funds received under the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund will be spent to “rejuvenate public piers and harbours”.
Laudable as this may be, I am at a loss to see how, exactly, this promotes economic development as a means to ameliorate the negative impact of Brexit. The move stinks of pork barrel politics.
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The Bull Lighthouse, Co. Cork
RTE have archive footage about the lighthouse on The Bull off the Beara Peninsula in Co. Cork, which was taken in 1979. One of the ‘mod cons’ noted as available to the lighthousekeepers was a TV. I wonder did they have a TV licence?
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Carroll’s, Dundalk
RTE’s 100 Buildings series has an article about the Carroll’s tobacco factory in Dundalk.
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ESB Design/DUTC Flying Snail
RTE are running a series – 100 Buildings – which is a look at 100 features in Irish structures.
One of these articles looks at the building of electricity substations as part of the electrification of Ireland that followed the commissioning of the Ardnacrusha power station.
An interesting fact therein is that the ESB in house designer who produced the early ESB logo, which was a wave and thunderbolt design that can still be seen on some structures around the country, also worked as a freelancer and in this capacity, designed the flying snail logo for the Dublin United Tramway Company (which was retained by CIE upon its creation in 1945).
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Train hits plane in L.A.
Trains hitting road vehicles on the line is, unfortunately, not uncommon, especially at level crossings.
RTE reports on an incident involving a light aircraft crash landing onto a railway line in Los Angeles in the USA and being hit by a train shortly afterwards.
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Grand Canal towpath closure notice
Waterways Ireland have advised a 4 week closure of the towpath between Lock 12 and Hazelhatch on the Grand Canal, to facilitate site investigation works in conjunction with the proposed greenway extension from Lock 12 to Hazelhatch.
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Suitable for the South Wexford line
This could work on the South Wexford line, except that the national transport company in Ireland regards its primary purpose as property development and not public transport provision.
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Inchicore Works
Irish Rail have released a promotional video about Inchicore Works in Dublin in this, its 175th year.
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The wrong decision
Transport Infrastructure Ireland has announced “Stage 1” funding for a greenway from Greystones to Wicklow along the coast (a location shared by the railway line from Greystones to Wicklow).
In an era when other arms of the State are screaming “climate change” and promising sea level rises, why is the State paying for infrastructure that another arm of the State maintains will be under water in the mid term future?