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FRANK FEELY, WHO served as Dublin City Manager from 1979 until 1996, has died at the age of 93.
During his time in charge of Dublin County and City Council and later Dublin City Council (formerly known as Dublin Corporation), Feely oversaw several important milestones in the capital over the course of his career, including the visit of US President Bill Clinton 1996.
He is credited with leading the programme to drastically reduce Dublin’s 10,000-strong housing list during the eighties, the pedestrianisation of Grafton St, and is perhaps best-known for the 1988 Millennium campaign.
The campaign, while historically dubious, proposed to celebrate one thousand of years of Dublin city, and generate economic activity and increased cultural engagement in the capital.
The yearlong celebration was marked by half-price fares on the DART, commemorative events, new public spaces, street art, and music, during a time when Ireland’s economic fortunes were a cause of great concern.
A centre-piece of the celebrations was the Dublin Street Carnival, a July parade which featured over 200 performers in full costume, led by the New Jersey Emerald Pipe Band.
Feely also oversaw the establishment of the large civic office building on Wood Quay. The development was controversial due to archaeologically significant discoveries made at the site, and the High Court initially ruled that the site was a national monument.
Asked by RTÉ about the building, Feely said: “I don’t feel proud of it, I don’t feel ashamed of it”.
Contemporary reporting refers to the larger-than-life nature of Feely’s character, with one report in the Sunday Press offering the description that Feely “bestrides the city like a colossus”, while a 1996 report in the Irish Times reads: “If anyone could be said to have ‘run’ Dublin over the past 16 years, it is Frank Feely.”
News of Feely’s death was confirmed in a statement issued by Dublin City Council on Monday afternoon.
The statement reads: “Mr Feely was the Dublin City and County Manager from 1979 to 1993 and then Dublin City Manager from 1993 until his retirement in 1996. Mr Feely joined Dublin Corporation as a clerk in 1949. He was a committed public servant, who made a significant contribution to the life of Dublin city and its citizens during a long career.”
Lord Mayor Caroline Conroy paid her respects to Feely in her own statement, saying: “As Lord Mayor, I wish to offer both my own and Dublin City Council’s condolences to his family and friends. Frank was a hardworking and dedicated employee of Dublin City Council.
“My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this time. May he rest in peace. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam”.
Possible Flooding in South East France and nothern Italy next weekend, if ventusky.com weather forecast predictions come true.
@P. V. Aglue: nothing on the local forecasted for South East France shows anything abnormal so far. Next Sunday forecast is for 4 to 10 mm of rain.
@P. V. Aglue: forewarned is forearmed David, Fri 7 the sat 8th. Buy wheat futures too!
Climate change modelling is an outrigger of the scientific method, which is based on Newton’s clockwork solar system modelling. That awful perspective has a central principle that the Earth doesn’t turn once in 24 hours and a thousand times in a thousand 24-hour days.
The topic of how to demonstrate a round Earth was brought up a number of days ago, and unfortunately, readers once again were unable to affirm the correct equatorial rotation velocity, which affirms that not only is the Earth round, but it is also a sphere.
A pizza is flat, but it can also be round, so the more developed perspective of the Earth as a sphere supersedes the crude flat vs. round choice. The Earth’s rotation demonstrates its shape.
@Gerald Kelleher: So you’re saying it’s the far right, right? Just don’t vote for them, whatever you do! It’ll be floods a go go if you do do.
@Ray Dunne: I doubt ChatGPT is capable of that.
Not funny though, those floods in Germany… (the actual article we’re commenting on)
@Jerry LeFrog: To demonstrate that the Earth is round and a sphere rather than round and flat ( like a pizza), only the maximum equatorial rotation velocity based on the maximum circumference is required.
The basis of all scientific method modelling, including climate change modelling, insists that the value is 1674.4 km/h for a circumference of 40,075 km.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
Clocks and Longitude, including the GPS, base the actual rotation value at the Equator as 1669.8 km/hr.
The day/night cycle, which includes sunrise, noon, and sunset happens once every 24 hours due to one rotation. The academic community denies these facts.
“Owing to the difference between solar and sidereal time, the Earth rotates once more often than 24-hour days in a year” NASA.
@Gerald Kelleher: Same ‘copy and paste’ nonsense every day
@Trevor McCormack:
I had to respond in another article.
@Ray Dunne: I see through thumbs-up approval that most Journal commenters refuse to accept that the sunrise/sunset cycle every 24 hours is not also one rotation of the Earth.
That more than anything demonstrates how easy it is to convince society of the need to control the weather/temperatures (climate change modelling).
@Gerald Kelleher: Again, not all puzzle are created equal. As I pointed out before, some may be square. And calzone better not be flat …
The Earth has been turning and creating the day/night cycle long before humanity appeared on Earth, long before the dinosaurs, and long before life on land and in the sea, so it is the oldest observation people have and perhaps the most precious and immediate experience of a moving Earth.
What could be more beautiful and inspirational, and so what if I am the only person to affirm the connection between the rotation and Earth science?
If people choose a ridiculous notion through a misadventure with timekeeping, these pizza earthers ( round and flat earth) might believe they are in some way superior to others; they are best left to their own devices.
Climate change modelling, like natural selection, will fade without being dealt with properly. They are symptoms rather than the disease
@Gerald Kelleher: You believe in the heliocentric spinning ball in a vacuum MODEL. Flat earthers don’t have a model and don’t think earth is a pizza in space.
@Science: It is late as my location (and me with it) rotates into the dark hemisphere for a number of hours before rotating back into the light hemisphere and the radiation of our parent star
Only scientific method modellers dispute this intimate experience, and they are the foolish people promoting climate change modelling.
Cowardice before basic facts is the worst so you believe what you need to, people need to be courageous and considerate and not silent.
@Gerald Kelleher: If you brought all the theories and counter theories of climate change modelling and all the facts and figures and dropped them on top of the flood in Germany would they be enough to soak it up. If anyone has a spare opinion or theory feel free to add to the pile .
These regions were always prone to floods, and the investment to prevent this and maintenance is discovered often not matching what should have been done. Nothing to do with the end of the world BS climate change
Ha, ha, pięknie…
Mam tego tyle już, że… Że… Żebyście zmiękli
Spróbuj powiedzieć to, nim uwierzysz, że
Nie warto mówić kocham
Spróbuj uczynić gest, nim uwierzysz, że
Nic nie warto robić
Nic naprawdę nic nie pomoże
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Musisz odnaleźć nadzieję
I nieważne, że nazwą ciebie głupcem
Musisz pozwolić by sny
Sprawiły byś pamiętał, że
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Moja i Twoja nadzieja
Uczyni realnym krok w chmurach
Moja i Twoja nadzieja
Pozwoli uczynić dziś cuda
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Oni sobie poszli i nie powiedzieli nawet do widzenia
W ten oto sposób dobiegliśmy końca
Dla niektórych nareszcie, dla niektórych szkoda
Pewne, że jest to koniec
Dziękujemy, że przyjechaliście, naprawdę
I… I za wszystko dzięki, zobaczymy się może w przyszłym roku
Jak Bóg da
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