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Enda's got bottle Photocall Ireland

Enda Kenny will be opening a bottle bank today

No, seriously.

TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY is a busy man.

As well as running the country, Kenny also has to deal with matters in his Mayo constituency, something which becomes more pressing as an election approaches.

There has been some speculation in recent months that the Fine Gael leader is worried for his seat having come in for criticism locally for not doing enough for his constituents over the last four years.

The much-liked Michael Ring is fancied to top the poll at the expense of his party leader who would be battling it out with fellow Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin for what it’s thought will be two safe seats for the party. The other party TD, John O’Mahoney, has moved to another constituency.

Ireland Election Kenny with Michael Ring, Michelle Mulherin and John O'Mahoney after Fine Gael won four seats in Mayo in 2011 Associated Press Associated Press

But whatever does happen, no one can accuse Kenny of not showing up for stuff in his hometown.

The evidence of that is in a public event taking place in Castlebar this morning. It’s the grand opening of some bottle banks situated in a car park in Castle Street in the town.

Yep, that’s right. Enda Kenny, the leader of the country, is opening a bottle bank. Something like this…

Farewell_to_the_Bottle_Bank_at_Tring_Recycling_Centre_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1405745 Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons

Our dear leader will be there along with local councillors and the chairman of Castlebar Municipal District Al McDonnell.

We can’t wait for the pictures from this one…

Read: 14 photographs of Enda Kenny pointing at things

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    Mute Stanley Groves
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    Sep 10th 2012, 8:00 AM

    More natural forests are needed

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    Mute Nun on Yokes
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    Sep 10th 2012, 8:45 AM

    Instead of plastic ones.

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    Sep 10th 2012, 8:26 AM

    Are they talking about forests or the sterile non-native conifer plantations which blight our landscape and threaten the survival of species such as Hen Harrier? Judging the reasoning behind the groups in question I’m reckoning they’re talking about the plantations rather than native or semi-natural woodlands rich in biodiversity.

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    Sep 10th 2012, 7:40 AM

    Special branch should look into this.

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    Mute Aidan Geraghty
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    Sep 10th 2012, 8:19 AM

    i think they are on leave at the moment

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    Mute Conor Conneally
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    Sep 10th 2012, 8:40 AM

    Its not the number of trees being planted but how bio diverse the forests are. Acres of conifer plantations do more environmental harm than good

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    Mute Peter
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    Sep 10th 2012, 9:48 AM

    especially to rivers, the massive amounts of sulfer put in the soil runs off and drops the Ph of rivers ruining spawning grounds

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    Mute Jim Jameson
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    Sep 10th 2012, 9:47 AM

    Here we go, a report to soften us up for the privitisation of Coillte, the largest single landowner in the State

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    Mute Pat Casey
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    Sep 10th 2012, 9:53 AM

    Sounds about right.

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    Sep 10th 2012, 12:10 PM

    That’s a great pic of lough Tay in county Wicklow. A member of the Guinness family has a wonderful house down there, although he may have passed away. I have cycled and hiked over these Wicklow mountains and really feel that they should be covered in forests. This land was covered at one time with oak and other trees. The govt needs to get the finger out and start to increase Irish woodlands. If you leave the land alone the trees will come back naturally.

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    Mute Mick Collins
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    Sep 10th 2012, 11:57 AM

    Jim Jameson
    Why would you need to be softened up for a Government sale of the collet harvesting rights? Have you seen the appalling Annual Reports over the last few years?
    In 2011 they had sales of 259 m and only managed a profit of 19.9m and this is with free land a story wen a massive one million acres.
    Worse than this their pension fund has a shortfall of nearly a hundred million Euro. How do you manage that trick with just one thousand employees? The answer is simple ……..make it a publicly owned enterprise and they’ll just milk it for all it’s worth.
    See the harvesting rights for up to two billion and let someone else do the real job of managing the business as that clearly hasn’t been done for some time.
    We get to keep the land. We get money for new investment in the economy and the workers get their pension funds fixed.
    With proper management exports will increase and the State will accrue further profit taxes.
    Simple.

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    Mute Mick Collins
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    Sep 10th 2012, 11:58 AM

    ….sell the harvesting rights….. Mea culpa

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