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THE COMMERCIAL COURT has ruled that ESB was 60% liable for flood damage to University College Cork UCC following extensive flooding in Cork City in November 2009.
Mr Justice Barrett yesterday ruled in favour of UCC in the action it brought on behalf of its insurer Aviva against the Electricity Supply Board ESB for compensation for the flood damage.
In a statement UCC said it believes the response of its staff to the flooding on the night of 19 November 2009 was exemplary and ensured the safety of all staff and students. It said:
UCC has put in place significant flood protection works since the 2009 event to enhance the safety of staff and students and the protection of the campus.
It added that the ruling “provides an important clarification on the obligations of dam operators and property owners in the sphere of flood management”.
ESB has also issued a statement on the ruling, saying its main priority during the event was for the safety of people downstream.
The inflow of water into the Lee catchment during November 2009 was the worst since records began. The presence of the reservoirs, and the manner in which the dam was operated by ESB, meant that the flooding downstream of Inniscarra was less than it otherwise might have been.
It added that the company and its legal team will now review the judgement in detail tomorrow.
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Maruane Felllini !!!
Robert Sheehan from Love/Hate would be fantastic.
cool hopefully unlike the recent project on Michael Jackson, they will not select a white man to play Phil. Love the guy, long overdue.. You Can Always Hear The King’s Call…..
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: why would you choose a black actor to play 2001 Michael Jackson who was white as white can be
@M: Because the whole point of acting is that you’re pretending to be somebody who you’re not.
@M: not white.
Find Smiley Bolger and ask him who is the Belfast Philo? (He is frontman art of a Lizzy tribute act that hail from Belfast I think?) They often plays Vibe for Philo gigs – has to be seen to be believed !
Have seen him with 2 guitarists Phil Edgar And Brian Grace – (don’t know if all 3 are in the same tribute act but hav seen them play together).
But my god – u’d swear it was Lizzy live & Dangerous in sound AND in appearance.
@Barry Ringwood: your thinking of Thin Az Lizzy, from Dundalk (not sure if they are still together) all you had to do was close your eyes an Philip was on stage,…so like them
@Tony Gordon: is it dundalk? 1 Guitarist is called Phil Edgar – and most of times ive seen them at vibe for Philo gigs – they had another guitarist called Brian Grace (whom I think is a dub and I don’t know if he’s ‘in’ the band properly or just jams with them…
But if that’s them… Yes. .. absolute class
@Tony Gordon: Bang on, it was as close as close could be to hearing Phil Lynott sing… Looked nothing like him at all, but they totally sounded like Thin Lizzy
@Tony Gordon: Thin Az Lizzy are back on the road again in the same lineup as before. Johnny Fox is the frontman. True enough he’s the best sounding Phil Lynott I’ve ever heard.
What about Chris Kamara from sky sports
Wasn’t Gary Dourdan billed to play him at one point?
@Neil Murray: he was indeed
@Neil Murray: Lenny Kravitz aswell at one stage. This idea has been knocking around for years, let’s hope they make a runner of it this time.
Morgan Freeman would be brilliant as Philo
@Stouts O Shea: nah too old I would have thought.
Many old guys going -Hmmmm??
Age: no (x3)
Race: no
Height: no
Hair /lack of: no (how did that happen)
mentality: yes
Have a Dublin cousin who’s the image of him. He talks just like him, plays bass good enough for far away shots, has the same swagger and by the end of a three week med holiday is almost the same colour.
Would a touch of dark makeup be wrong?
Is it more racially incorrect to change his skin-tone in order to be ethnically correct or is it more ethnically wrong to use a non-irish actor of similar skin-tone to play a proud Irish man?
Hmmm…
Hope they cast a white perosn just for all the hilarious outrage that would follow.
Get Brush Shiels on the panel to choose he knew Lynott the best
Sounds like another job for Aiden ‘Littlefinger’ Gillen, you can’t go wrong with Aiden Gillen.
@Ron North: or Brendan Gleeson? He’s a great actor, he could pull it off.
@O Swetenham: A strong second choice there.
His son Macdarragh (Dara) Lambe should be offered to play the part, he’s Phil’s double
They’re going to have to go southbound
Kwaku Fortune is the man for this.
Marty Morrissey
Apologies for couple of typos…. frontman ‘art’???
His Son Macdarragh (Dara) Lambe should be asked to play the part, he’s Phils double
@Aideen Murphy: agreed, he is the image of Phil. But I’d say he’s a bit too old. He’s almost 50 according to Wikipedia and Phil died at 36…
Wesley Snipes.
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