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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you hit the road.
1. #PAUL MURPHY: The Socialist TD has been released from custody and said, “I’m not some sort of master criminal that deserves to have six gardaí at my door.”
2. #MURDER: Ex Cork City Councillor Gary O’Flynn has pleaded guilty to three counts of soliciting a man to murder three people. [RTÉ]
3. #BODY: Gardaí are investigating after a 36-year-old man was found dead in an apartment in Mallow, Cork.
4. #JOBS: Tayto Park is set to hire another 150 people thanks to a new rollercoaster – which will be the largest inverted wooden rollercoaster in Europe.
5. #BAFTA: A Belfast film about two boys and their pet chickens took home a Bafta.
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I’d take this seriously if approx 48 councils weren’t pumping raw sewerage into water courses that supplies thousands of families. Two wrongs don’t make a right but start with those and lead by example.
Our local Sinn Fein Councillor was photographed at the outlet of the local town’s sewerage plant with raw sewage running into the river ..
Wasn’t it mighty when councillors had farmers to blame for fish kills ..
Fine Gael and Fianna fail Councillors were nowhere to be seen in the photo – must be no money in it or they’d have been there holding a spade for some latchico Minister or other !
Would the Sinn Fein Councillors and TDs stand near the polluting of rivers in the border area where effluent from diesel laundering occurs????
Or, over half of septic tanks passed inspections…
It’s o.k – Homebond will pay for any deficiencies …
SEPTIC TANKS WORK ONCE YOU ALLOW THE BACTERIA TO DO THEIR JOB, what makes all the trouble is bleach and antibacterial smellies being poured down the U bend.
That man Phil Hogan left some stink behind him
This is why #irishwater want your details. People duped into thinking that because they have a well and a septic tank that they wont be charged from #irishwater! Think again people …….. #irishwater are coming for you ….
Yep your right.
Everything is about IW.
People should be allowed to leak faecal matter into theirs & others water supply with impunity & anonymity.
We got charged €50 for registering our septic tank two years ago and never a call, a receipt, nothing. Now told to register with Irish Water even though we don’t use the service (Ye right I will, I swear). Don’t tell me they lost the database of septic tanks in Ireland!! Of course we maintain the tank, our drinking water comes from the land around us, we are hardly going to pollute.
Go downstream to many towns in the area and look at the quality of water. CoCo’s have to clean up the waste, start at the top.
Paul, if you had registered your septic tank before the date deadline it would have only cost you five euro. So it is your own fault if you ended up paying fifty euro. Likewise the Irish Water registration, if you tell them you have your own supply then they will not bill you.
Sorry Chris, they can bill away, all day every day. I will not register even for €100 until justification for payment is made, with a logical plan of action for all.
Paul you seem to be on a mission to confrontation….why bother when it doesn’t concern you.
Sorry Paul, just so I have it straight. You refused to take the opportunity to pay €5, and so ended €45 worse off and now you have the chance to finish €50 up*, you are going to be stubborn again and refuse the free money?
* Assuming from your comment that you also have your own water source.
Ah, 2017 – the magic year. That was the year that, if all had gone well, local authorities would “compete” with private operators for the provision of water and sewage services according to the Government memo leaked by RTE of all sources – credit where credit is due. It seems immensely convenient that all the inspections and certifications for septic tank and, presumably, well owners are due to conclude in 2017.
CORK – AGAIN…….
Basic common sense to get septic tanks/biocycles de-sludged and checked working properly every year or two, cost around 200 euro
I have been contacting my Waste Management service for over six months now for simply a price , and nobody has got back to me.
The last company who did it for me went out of business.
Unlikely that a county council will do it for you, check your phone directory for certified companies.
Anyone else remember the public being told by the Government when this was being introduced that most peoples septic tanks would easily pass inspections……..more lies again
So Charles do you expect the government to wipe your arse too……
Hopefully they will be getting more than their arses wiped after the election Chris :-)
That’s must be the worst job in the world though
Yes Helen your biocycle will also need de-sludging….you can oil the chain on your bicycle.
Looks like we should have been inspecting our septic tanks since the 1970s.
Seems that there are a lot of selfish people who don’t care if their septic tank pollutes our rivers and lakes.
It’s the same company that ‘fails’ the septic tank… and the it’s the same company that charges thousands to put it ‘right’. I don’t see how they can go out of business…
Is it just septic tanks or bicycles too??
Well of course they did
that’s a shitty situation
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