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FIVE HOMES AND businesses on the Dingle Peninsula in Co Kerry will form part of the ESB’s first major sustainable technology project.
The utility’s ‘Dingle Project’ is a three-year €5 million initiative which aims to pilot new ways of providing electricity and energy across the region.
The scheme was established to pinpoint how Ireland’s electricity will be distributed into the future.
As part of improvements to the peninsula’s electricity network, five homes and businesses will share €350,000 worth of sustainable technologies between them.
“Ultimately, where we’re going as a country, electricity and energy are becoming cleaner all the time,” ESB spokesperson Paul Hand said.
Those chosen by the ESB in the local community include a business which set up in 1875 as well as more recent residential builds.
Technologies due to be installed include solar panels, battery management systems and electric vehicles chargers.
It’s understood the project will include deep retrofits to facilitate the installation of ultra-efficient air source heat pumps, too.
“Once we can get these technologies and the wider grid working well together with fewer outages than we have now,” says Hand, “then we’ll look at the rest of the country.”
There is a “two-prong” approach to the ‘Dingle Project’, the ESB said.
First, there is tackling network issues – installing sustainable technologies over three years across the peninsula.
Then, there is community engagement – persuading locals to move towards new energy sources.
“These five [homes and businesses] will closely monitor their electricity usage as these devices are installed. It’s to give them a sense of the future,” says Hand.
The Dingle peninsula is essentially a litmus test for the rest of the country.
It provides a good sample size. There’s are nearly 4000 homes across the peninsula and a mixture of urban and rural with electricity usage rising and falling with the seasons.
“It’s also exposed to the Atlantic Ocean and Atlantic storms,” Hand says.
That means occasional blackouts which can be countered through new technologies.
Incredible that an organisation can systematically abuse kids for years and still get 80000 to go to one of their mumbo jumbo gigs.
Love the hell goggles…. They’ll definitely protect your eyes in the eternal furnace!
To be fair the Church is more than institution.
The abuse of Children is not a reason to reject Christianity. An analysis of the bible and whether you believe God exists or not are the reasons people should or should not attend these things.
You are confusing Christianity with Catholicism; by all means be Christian, follow the bible if you wish but if you are catholic, you are part of he institution that abused children, covered it up and thinks that a sorry will make it go away.
So what your saying is that the 80k people who turned up today support the abuse of children in the past by members of the church. I’m not a strong catholic by any means but please stop lumping all those who are into the same category as the abusers. Yes the leadership of the church has a lot of questions to answer but the practising of religion is not outlawed or wrong. Aim your comments at the abusers.
@john – that’s very Christian of you
@Tom Leddy
I wouldn’t say the 80k who turned up support the abuse of children as such but while Sean Brady is the head of the church in this country they are at best turning a blind eye to someone who was part of the reason abuse was allowed to continue and be covered up for so long.
It’s very difficult to aim comments at the abusers as it’s impossible to know who they are, and its only the church who can put that right.
Sean Brady keeping the position that he does hardly shows a church being open and willing to take full responsibility for its actions.
@David Higgins,
I notice journal.ie had sense in telling you to change your post. We all have our beliefs and reasons for leaving a post on this article. Most of us have restrained ourselves in the way we’ve written our posts. Maybe you should have read your last post before writing it. You might do that in future. Whether you used F@#king in place of the proper spelling earlier it’s still disrespectful especially on this article.
Before the negative types get in with their cynical appraisals; some great photos.
Wasn’t there myself but my Mam said it was one of the best days of her life.
Well said Paul.
I just cannott comprehend how the catholic doctrine can attract such a massive crowd in consideration of the most heinous acts they have committed.
Let me remind you: They have sexually/physically and mentally abused and tortured worldwide.
It disturbes me to think that some people have either no pride, a short memory or are simply brainwashed by the popes cunning and deceptive tactics to herd his flock.
@Paul Anthony Ward
I sometimes agree with your posts and sometimes enjoy them, but unfortunately the one above I do not like. Number one, which is not the most important is what you called ‘the negative types’. I’m one of them and I’m proud. I was brought up a catholic by my parents. Two great people R.I.P. They would be your mother’s generation and many from that generation accepted a lot, sometimes out of fear. I know and can guarantee they would be two very sad people if they were alive today.
I brought my two children up on strict rules. Three things were and are very important to me. Respect, tell the truth and try not to judge people. Unfortunately, I find myself breaking my third rule in this case. I find the Vatican, Pope, the RCC vile and incomprehensible for what they, as a religion, have done to many, many children in the world. They have killed their souls. They have put them in hell, to suffer pain for the rest of their lives. I don’t think the saying ‘suffer little children’ was to mean that they be buggered, raped, molested, made to give oral sex to priests, christian brothers (some).
The very fact that many, many Popes knew that this was going on and for hundreds of years they believed and still believe that they are above the law, it’s like they are claiming diplomatic immunity. I don’t do religion but I would be very spiritual in my own way. I cannot even imagine what this people go through every day in their lives, to be treated less than a dog on the street, and to be ignored like they don’t exist is despicable.
I guess if you have been braiwashed then it makes for a nice day out and good photos.I on the other hand am a victim of abuse and consider the whole idea of this to be in extremely bad taste.
Sheila Byrne.
Well expressed comment.
@ Sheila
I can’t believe that anyone has given a red thumb to your comment. You were not provoking a reaction, just airing a well thought out point. Makes you wonder just how “Christian” some of these do-gooders are???
Clerical abuse ‘remains a mystery’, says Pope Benedict XVI. Jesus wept!
It is saddening to see so many fellow Irish citizens hypnotised by the world’s largest cult.
The sooner we, as a species and global civilisation, see past superstition, the false reward of heaven and the false threat of hell, the more quickly we will advance to a position where compassion, reason and truth guide human behaviour and relationships.
The idea that a cabal of elderly virgins living in a palace could be the guardians of moral wisdom should be seen for the nonsense it is.
I think you’ll find your suggestions have already been tried, we called them Marxism, Fascism and de Reich. No God, no religion, no respect for life.
@Paddy Scully
Your message was written to Max but in fact you are aiming it at many people including me. I am not a fascist, or nazi. I do believe that many of the wars that have been fought in the world has involved religion of all types. Individuals that were ‘head’ of those religions thinking that their’s were better than the next one. Nobody owns any country they live in. We live on this earth, to enjoy it, to be happy to experience the fantastic wonders of it, to learn and share. I am not religious but I do believe in equality and respect.
The vatican does not believe in either.
Religion is the cause of most hatred in this world, it breeds hate and discrimination.
I have no religion,no one in my family have any religion. Are you saying we have no respect for life? Religion is the cause of some of the most brutal,violent and horrific acts in history and as for the child abuse? I feel torn apart sometimes when I read about the pain and suffering people,CHILDREN go through!
“no religion,no respect for life” what a ridiculous and ignorant comment to make. Take the bloody blinkers off
Actually Paddy, Fascism was predominantly a Catholic movement. In Italy, Spain and Croatia it explicitly involved clerics from the Catholic church in it’s administrations. Father Tiso, a serving priest, was head of the Fascist regime of Slovakia.
Hitler was a Catholic, and never renounced his faith. The 1st treaty he signed with a foreign power was with the Vatican, giving control of schools in Bavaria to the church in exchange for the dissolution of the catholic centre party.
The greatest achievement of the Roman Catholic is the extraordinary amnesia it has afflicted the world with, and the propaganda with which it has rewritten history.
Paddy,
Thankfully it is possible to have a God and respect for life without having to support a religion especially one as corrupt as the catholic church.
Max it is great to hear from someone knowledgable on the subject matter who can correct the likes of Paddy who looks through Catholic rose-tinted glasses. Is that what the nuns taught you in school Paddy? That fascism and nazism had nothing to do with religion? Hmm, God help us all!
And just were do you think everything came from ??
Wow! The responses to a catholic view are always fierce here. And usually the same respondents. My point is not that people without religion are incapable of good, my beliefs tell me we all have that good character in us (made in the image and likeness etc.). But a lack of a religious belief or the turning away from beliefs leads to hatred. Hitler killed 6m Jews and 5m Catholics, because he had a better way and religion was not part of his agenda. Stalin murdered millions based on his non/anti religious beliefs. I hear an echo of “religion is the opium of the people” in many of your replies.
I am a free mind, the chant that I and my kin are brainwashed, is a hollow way of saying your stupid and I’m bright, so I win.
The reason few of faith would give their views here is because it appears to draw out the worst from people. But it is no harm for a few of us just to say, no matter what you believe, God loves you, and the door is always open.
Paddy, you are spouting the most ignorant tripe that I’ve ever read on TheJournal.ie, and that is really saying something.
Not anything you have said has any basis in fact nor supporting proof for it. Then again, concepts such as facts and evidence really are lost on the religious, aren’t they?
@ Wolfgang Weisen
Just let me say I don’t consider you ignorant. Your idea of facts however are things that agree with your world perspective. The joys of relativism.
I don’t know enough about Tiso to comment, but looks like like a bad sort. Unfortunately many educated by the church, showed their true colours later in life. This is why there is a restriction on priests entering politics. This is also why the church clamped down on liberation theology, which was a distortion of the churches social teachings, but with Marxist traits.
You mentioned the Spanish civil war, it’s worth mentioning that 6000 catholic priests were murdered in the strife because they were priests. So hate towards Catholics is nothing new.
Many Catholics, and nominal Catholics, have done grave wrongs; but the list of good deeds stretches much further.
I hope all that were in Croke Park enjoyed themselves, I hope everyone else had a great fathers day and I hope all you negative f**kers get a life…….
Get a life? Ha ha
down with this sort of thing!
careful now.
another troll
I didn’t know that many people believe in fairytales.
They talk about separating church from state and whose face is right in the middle of the lot of them. Just proves that the speech that Enda made last year in the Dáil and the lack of action since Enda’s speech really meant nothing and he did not mean one word of it at all because he did not write it and was just talking the talk to appease the people of Ireland and the abused children of Clerical abuse
I really don’t understand people believing in Catholicism!
Brainwashed when they were children. Very hard to break
I understand people having faith in something. But organised religion that has such a horrendous history from its very beginning well it’s baffling.
It was not 80,000. Croke park might hold 80,000 but there were plenty of empty seats. I’d say 60,000 at best.
I thought the 80,000 figure came from the number of tickets sold? Croke Park can hold about 87,000 so that would allow for 7000 empty seats anyway. And that’s not counting the people who were seated on the pitch.
I know at least one elderly Catholic lady who either bought or was given a ticket but watched it on TV instead (and still went to Bingo that night incidentally….) So I’m not sure just using the number of tickets as the attendance figure is accurate.
P.
Context is important: “How are we to explain the fact that people who regularly received the Lord’s body and confessed their sins in the sacrament of Penance have offended in this way?” he asked. “It remains a mystery.”
It all looks very ‘Fr Tedesque’
I became a Catholic 56 years ago at the age of 16 and have until recently held the Church in the highest regard. However, due to the attitude of some of the most senior members of the clergy in this country and the way I have personally been treated, having worked for the Church for 18 of the last 20 years, I am from now on a Christian. Catholic and Christian are no longer the same thing to me any more.
@John: Are you the guy who played the organ at Knock? If so, you are a legend!!!
It’s remarkable that the cultural high water mark of many commentators here are random quotes from a very dated comdedy. Since its Sunday evening: ‘well holy god!’
thank god for Darwin
See pic of The Redemptorists. Wow!! I can just see them all whipping their Uzi machine guns out!!! Git some sinners. Git some. git some!!!
Some really great photos in there, funny, poignant, interesting… Laura Hutton does some fab work recording these events. I’m sure we will see these photos in many years time again.
I hope those who believe and who were there enjoyed their day out. I hope those who were there who knew about what the church was really up to and closed their eyes and mouths, might actually feel some guilt. But I suspect they never will.
Staying out of the religious debate – I really like Julian Behal’s photo journalist work.
@Celtic Lady
The sad thing I see in all of this is people like David Higgins calling people like me rude names and getting angry with me and many others. He should be aiming his anger at the Vatican if he had any thought for those victims. Ignoring the pain that these people are going through is so sad. Yes, there were a few people there today but they too are encouraging this ‘diplomatic immunity’ the vatican think they are entitled to.
Enda Kenny, I don’t care if he is the Taoiseach at the moment is encouraging this also. It’s just so wrong, so wrong.
@Condulmer
Thanks for your kind comment – yes I was until I was made retire Oct 2010 (rather unpleasantly). My namesake was a bit of a legend too wasn’t he a few years ago? God bless.
If that is what you believe in and it gives you comfort. Looked like a great day out for 80,000 people. Fair play to the organisers.
Considering the last Eucharistic Congress in Ireland drew a crowd of 1 million people this event, at 80,000, can be considered to be poorly attended. A 92% drop represents a total collapse in numbers regardless of what way the Church try to spin it.
The Irish people have woken up to this organization of rapists. Never again will they control this nation.
I attended the Statio Orbis in Croke Park today, I am 32 and am glad to see that the Church I was brought up in, and am proud to be part of, hosted this magnificent international event. I also completed the Pilgrim Walk during the week and found it a most enriching experience.
I am assuming that Cardinal Brady was there in the Pitt at the gig , which is quite disturbing to say the least . I was surprised at the crowd that showed up for the event . Many of those in attendance were of the older generation who have been so indoctrinated by the RCC that there is no going back . On top of that there was a huge crowd from the organisation itself and many pilgrims from around the world.
The popes speech was insincere and pitiful as he read what was put before him and referred to abuse very briefly and said more or less ,it was a mystery to him how it happened and proceeded to blame the individual clerical abusers and not the organisation . This was the realisation that they have not and will never accept that the man made teachings is part of the problem .
The only benefit i see to this recruitment drive by the RCC was the tourist business in the city. Im not going to cast any judgement on the individuals present as they are free to believe the organisation just as the many people believe the promises of so many other cults around the world.
I wonder was Enda Kenny there because he was obliged to be there or was he there out of personal choice. If he had no obligation as a leader , would he have gone after last years historical speech in which he had a pop at the Vatican .
Why do our leaders have to make an appearance at this idiotic gig?
Ah I LOVE a good mass.
I talked to a lot of people who attended. It would appear a lot of the tickets were given away free. You can see the grip the Vatican has on the Irish state that any of our politicians would be seen dead at this mumbo jumbo fest.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=410460378993176&set=o.152861764838587&type=1&ref=nf
Great to see that the Ivory Coasters made it in pic 13. They’re always so well represented at everything. Well that or else people cannot remember which order the colours of the flag go in. But no one could be that stupid, could they?
I was there yesterday – a brillant day for my family. The Congress was a fanstastic event with fanstastic people.
80,000 multiplied by average age of 50 years say = 4,000,000 years of pretending the “mystery” didn’t happen.
Why focus on the negative comments and not focus on the event.
There have not been any negative comments yet. Why attack the would be critics.
I also was there yesterday with my husband and our 4 kids (Frankie 6yrs, Klara 5 yrs, Kinga 3yrs, Bernard 2yrs) . That was lovely time :) Ladies who were sitting around us and hear how our oldes son singing
Hallelujah were crying with emotion and I was very proud !
The church needs to get rid of those creepy outfits, the pics of the nuns creeped me out! We need women priests too in this backward organization!
Collaborators.
I’m not going to judge those who attended too harshly, they were predominantly the elderly who grew up in the grips of the church and remain so, terrified at the thought of “hell” simply because they know no different.
I reserve my worse judgement for those who ticked “Catholic” on the census forms, despite not partaking in Catholic rituals, not adhering to its teachings or that of the bible and are merely “Catholic” when it’s time to have a pissup for a christening, communion, confirmation, etc. They are the true farce here an the silent supporters of abusers who’ve destroyed the lives of their very own friends and family.
I am, however, disgusted to see our politicians at this. Our state had suffered at the hands of this religious organisation both in terms of the unpunished abuse of its children and financially, where te taxpayer here has been landed with a €750m bill to pay damages to their victims because the super wealthy organisation denied all responsibility and dragged its feet over paying out, only reluctantly agreeing to match that amount.
It is absolutely vile that government representatives were there to support this organisation.
Was anyone cured yet? Usually at these religious jamborees someone is cured of headaches or stress or something.
Guy in the top photo looks like Pauli from the sopranos !
I thought it was Fr Romeo Sensini,12 time capped Vatican over 75s footballer
@ Wolfgang Weisen
I saw a photograph of Michael D Higgins going into the show also. I wonder was that official or was it his own decision. His business, but there is too much wrong with the catholic church and too many still suffering. Until something is properly done to help these people, to start with, “An Apology”, I can’t agree on my President attending and especially Kenny who bored us with an empty speech on church and the rapes they were involved in.
The pope/vatican reminds me of Lethal Weapon, the bad guy from St. Africa, when the law couldn’t touch him: “Diplomatic Immunity” !
Your man on the left in picture 20 looks like the fella out of little Britain
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