In recent months, anti-social behaviour in and around the park has been escalating, including bonfires, intimidation, litter and fireworks being aimed at people and property.  Many residents and park users no longer feel safe, and parents are worried about their children using the park, particularly as Halloween approaches, when problems have been at their worst in previous years. In response, the Dr Ryan Community Group has been formed by Residents Associations and Neighbourhood Watch groups from neighbouring estates, along with St Laurence's National School and Sporting Greystones FC.  We can't solve this alone. We're asking the Council, our local councillors and An Garda Síochána to work with us NOW, so that Dr Ryan Park stays a safe, welcoming space for everyone. Please sign and share to show your support.

Climate impact LNG has a devastating impact on the climate because of the methane emissions released by fracking, cooling, shipping and regasifying it. It produces Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions 33% higher than coal and, using Robert Howarth’s research, Stop Shannon LNG has estimated that importing and using LNG in Ireland could produce double the greenhouse gas emissions of the pipeline gas we currently import.   In a very cynical move, the legislation allowing for construction of the terminal - the Strategic Gas Reserve (SGR) Act - disapplies section 15 of the Climate Act. This means that relevant state bodies no longer need to have regard for ‘mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.  Furthermore, the SGR Act doesn’t prevent the proposed project from increasing gas demand and consumption. Neither does it block the operation of the terminal by commercial operators or  prevent the development of other LNG import terminals, such as the Shannon LNG project in Co. Kerry, which is currently awaiting a planning decision.  Any LNG terminals built would lock us  into a fossil fuel future. All this when you have already conceded, in a complete dereliction of duty, that Ireland will fail to meet its legally-binding carbon emissions reduction targets resulting in billions of taxpayer money in fines. The Energy Security Myth  The proposed LNG import terminal is being framed as a necessary energy security measure, only to be used in ‘emergencies’. However, as explained in a recent article in the Clare Champion, this is a myth. LNG is completely unsuited to storage due to boil off and the proposed terminal would need to be emptied into the gas grid and refilled at least 6 times a year.. Supply of LNG is vulnerable to weather-related disruption and geopolitical instability. In March, a powerful tropical cyclone in Western Australia disrupted production at the country’s two biggest LNG plants run by Chevron. And global LNG flows out of the Middle East were upended earlier this year by Iran’s blockage of the Strait of Hormuz.  Under the government's new Large Energy Users connection policy, gas demand for electricity generation could increase by 20% due to data centres. This would mean that if the data centres currently awaiting planning approval are given access to the gas grid, there could be a shortfall in Ireland’s gas supply of 9-18% during a period of severe cold. Evidently, an LNG terminal is not an energy security solution, rather it is being proposed to enable the continued, unsustainable growth of data centres. Real energy security for Ireland would mean indigenous renewable energy (particularly community owned), increased electricity storage and interconnection, demand management, demand reduction through energy efficiency and insulation measures and, crucially, a reduction in demand from data centres.  Fracking and Public Health The US could supply 80% of the LNG imported to Europe by 2030. and Donald Trump is pressuring Ireland to buy US LNG. Meanwhile, you have engaged in talks with the Governor of New Mexico to discuss long term purchasing of US fracked gas. The vast majority of US LNG is produced by fracking, which was banned in Ireland in 2017 due to its adverse impacts on the environment and public health. Communities in the US where LNG is produced through fracking are suffering from respiratory illness, cancer, reproductive issues, blood related disorders in children and mental health issues. These issues disproportionately affect disadvantaged and poorer communities, and communities of colour.  You must not allow Ireland to be complicit in this social injustice. Additionally, importing fracked gas would threaten our ban on fracking. Impact on Household Bills The proposed LNG terminal is estimated to cost taxpayers at least €900 million euro but could be far more. LNG itself is expensive and is likely to become far more expensive in the future.  This will increase electricity bills, but nowhere in the legislation is there reference to this impact from the proposed development, nor has there been any cost-benefit analysis conducted. Furthermore, the proposed development, because of its massive climate impact, would make it more certain that taxpayers in this country will be on the hook for EU fines up to €26 billion. It would also mean rising economic costs from worsening storms and floods in this country, including rising insurance premiums.  Security and Safety Risk Paul Griffiths, Chief Executive of Predator Oil and Gas, said he would never live beside an LNG import terminal because of the risk of explosion. Floating LNG terminals, like the one being planned on your watch, are very vulnerable to attack and disruption. Just this summer, a US-owned LNG import terminal was attacked by a drone in Egypt, with the fire spreading to an LNG tanker.  These massive safety and security risks have not been addressed. As you must be well aware as Minister for Climate, LNG terminals, with their climate impact, also increase risk of floods, wildfires and sea-level rise, drought, food shortages, migration and geopolitical unrest. Undemocratic process You tried to block pre-legislative scrutiny on the SGR Act which paves the way for the proposed LNG terminal. Nonetheless, the Joint Oireachtas Committee for Climate, Environment and Energy identified a wide range of problems with the Act and made 43 recommendations in their Pre-Legislative Scrutiny Report. Almost none of these have been implemented. Now the Act gives you the authority to grant approval instead of An Comisiún Pleanála, even if the project is likely to have adverse impacts on a European site (e.g Natura 2000 site), a priority habitat or a priority species.You are also yielding to pressure from the US to enter into agreements with them on importing their fracked gas, thereby supporting their “America First”, “drill baby drill” policy, and undermining democracy world-wide. There is simply no scenario that justifies the construction of an LNG terminal in Ireland in this climate crisis. We, the undersigned, urgently call on you to abandon this project, ban LNG import terminals and accelerate Ireland’s transition to a just, fossil-fuel-free energy system.

Land beside our homes is zoned exclusively for hyperscale Data Centres. Two areas near Jigginstown and the M7 are zoned “P - Data Centre Only” in the Naas Local Area Plan (shown in purple below). The M7 Business Park site already has planning permission - granted by Kildare County Council and now under appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála. The Jigginstown site, which backs directly onto Primrose Garden, has no planning application yet. Once an application is lodged, it becomes more difficult to stop - that’s the lesson from the M7 site. Do you want to live this close to a data centre? WATER We’re currently living under a nationwide hosepipe ban and data centres are exempt from it. As commercial users, they can keep using water throughout. Data centres nationally have used over 1.7 billion litres of public water since 2024, and Uisce Éireann itself admits it can’t fully explain its own figures. CLOSE TO WHERE WE LIVE This land is next to homes, schools and horse studs. The Jigginstown site alone is over 7 times the area of Croke Park. Even with mitigation, developments this size bring 24-hour noise, lighting and years of heavy construction traffic. ELECTRICITY Data centres are already 21% of Ireland’s electricity. More data centres mean more pressure on the grid, more gas-fired backup power, and higher costs for all of us as billpayers and taxpayers. OUR ENVIRONMENT Ireland’s climate commitments have changed significantly since 2021 – grid capacity, water resilience and our carbon budgets are all under far more pressure now. If Ireland misses its EU climate targets, taxpayers pay the fines.

On 24th October 2011, Irish citizen and hospice worker Celia de Jesus lost her life during a major flood event in Dublin. Unable to exit her basement flat as floodwater quickly rose at her door, she was trapped and drowned. In his report, the Dublin District Coroner of the time argue that Celia de Jesus drowned “as a result of a surge of water and flooding over a short period of time following two days of heavy rain”, reaching a final verdict of “death by misadventure”. However, extensive research into the tragic event reveals that the coroner report omits several pieces of evidence clearly challenging the conclusion of the report. Two of the main pieces of evidence left out of the report are as follows: • EVIDENCE 1: Celia de Jesus’s landlord had not received planning permission to divide the basement of his property into two rental units. Celia de Jesus was therefore renting an unauthorised basement flat. Furthermore, while located in a well-known flood-prone area, the basement flat had only one means of exit, the entrance door. All windows of the flat were blocked with metal bars. When Celia de Jesus was unable to open her entrance door for unknown reasons, she had no other means of exit at her disposal and was trapped. These pieces of evidence are never explicitly mentioned in the report and never outlined as a major cause of the tragic death. Instead, the claim is made that the works to divide the basement into two rental units (“appear to”) precede the Building Control Act 1990 and that, as a result, they shall be deemed to have been permitted. However, such a legal technicality cannot justify entertaining a misleading account of the tragic death. • EVIDENCE 2: In the coroner report, a list of planning applications submitted for the property in which Celia de Jesus died, both granted and refused, is provided. However, one planning application, dated 2009 and refused, is not included in the list. In this planning application addressed to Dublin City Council, it is stated that the property in which Celia de Jesus lived and died is “not of a habitable standard” (architect report, planning application 3066/09). Despite such a concerning statement, the issue failed to be addressed, which constituted another significant enabler of the tragic event. Following the tragic event and until now, various state and local government agencies, among them Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council and the Office of Public Works, have actively sustained the misleading account of Celia de Jesus’s death in reports and during public meetings. Instead of mentioning the planning breach and institutional failure that led to the tragic death, they consistently and unliterally blamed the flood. The misleading account was widely relayed in the local and national press and among local communities. As we are now approaching the fifteenth anniversary of the tragic death, we ask Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council, the Office of Public Works and the Minister for Justice to take the following actions as a matter of urgency: • ACTION 1: Issue a public statement explaining the full circumstances of the death of Celia de Jesus based on all available evidence • ACTION 2: Issue a public apology for having sustained a misleading account of the tragic death • ACTION 3: Request an immediate review of the coroner report and of its final verdict Please sign the petition to support these demands and share as widely as you can thank you!

Children spend a huge proportion of their lives in classrooms. They should not have to breathe poorly ventilated, unfiltered, rebreathed air for six hours a day when practical solutions exist. COVID has not disappeared. Reinfections continue, and a proportion of children and adults (16% according HSE FADA report, 15-53% according to HIQA's review of international evidence, 16% according to Mass General Brigham study, 2026, 27% of healthcare workers according to NHS REACH-OUT study, 2026) develop Long COVID — sometimes with disabling symptoms. Due to the lack of information on long Covid in Ireland, much of this harm is going undiagnosed or is not attributed to the real cause, COVID-19 infection. The WHO, the CDC, the OECD and other international organizations continue to warn about Long COVID, including its impact on children, yet public awareness in Ireland remains remarkably low. Clean indoor air is one of the few interventions that can protect everyone without requiring individual behaviour. Good ventilation and appropriately sized HEPA filtration reduce exposure to airborne infectious particles while also helping to reduce pollutants, allergens and particulate matter. Other places are already acting. Schools in London, parts of the United States, Canada, Australia and elsewhere have introduced filtration, air-quality monitoring or wider clean-air programmes. Ireland announced €62 million for school ventilation improvements and HEPA filtration in December 2021, yet HEPA filtration is still not standard in Irish classrooms. This is also about the right to honest public-health information. Parents should be given clear, current information about airborne transmission, Long COVID, women and girls being at greater risk of Long COVID, reinfection and the potential longer-term consequences of infection so that they can make informed decisions for their families. The information vacuum on the reality of Long COVID and the huge burden it puts on the healthcare system is being filled by racist, antivax conspiracy theorists. Clean Indoor Air will save lives and improve the health and wellbeing of children today and for generations to come. The infrastructure we put in place now will protect pupils and teachers from COVID, influenza and many other airborne infections, while improving the everyday quality of the air they breathe.  Ireland entered the pandemic with the 4th highest rate of asthma in the world with 1 in 5 children suffering and as an outlier in the EU with rising deaths from asthma. It is an abomination that the government decided against making HEPA filters standard in classrooms when faced with COVID-19, and we feel it is an insult to our intelligence and an exercise in gaslighting when politicians and media discuss issues such as "alarming rates of absenteeism" and "record breaking hospital overcrowding", while completely ignoring the reality of long COVID. We know how to make indoor air cleaner. We know how to reduce airborne transmission. Parents deserve accurate information about the risks. What is missing is the political will to act. Please join us in asking the Government to make clean air and honest public-health information a basic standard for every child in Ireland.

Some An Post infrastructure across Dublin 8 would benefit from additional maintenance. Graffiti, rust, moss, stickers, peeling paint and general dirt can detract from the appearance of streets and public spaces. Local residents and volunteers work hard to keep Dublin 8 clean and well cared for. We believe that maintaining An Post’s own street furniture is an important part of this wider effort. We are asking An Post to: • Remove graffiti, stickers, moss and accumulated dirt. • Treat rust and repair damaged areas. • Repaint post boxes and other street furniture where necessary. • Repair or replace items that are significantly damaged. • Carry out regular checks of its street furniture. • Respond promptly to graffiti and damage. • Engage constructively with local residents and community groups in identifying locations that require attention. Well-maintained street furniture contributes positively to the appearance and character of neighbourhoods and helps create clean, welcoming public spaces. We are asking Mr Kieran Mulvey, Chairman of An Post, to consider a programme of cleaning and maintenance for An Post street furniture across Dublin 8. We hope An Post will support this initiative and help ensure that its street furniture is maintained to a good standard for residents, visitors and the wider community.

Every voice from people matters for saving the Irish native forest and balance the ecosystem urgently as the 2% of intact native forests are still under threaten by the extreme imbalance of ecosystem in Ireland.

Irish Rail / Iarnród Éireann have plans to tarmac the Fair Green to create an additional 20-30 car spaces for the new Dart Plus Rail Route. Kilcock Heritage & Historical Society hopes to protect the Fair Green as it holds immense historical weight. The Fair Green was the site of a famous market for centuries that drew people from far and wide. During the 1798 Rebellion, rebels were executed on the Fair Green and the government military barracks located in picture where current 1798 stone marks it on the Green was destroyed. Additionally, the centre of the Green features the Kilcock Market Cross, which was itself torn down by Yeomen in 1798 and beautifully restored by the town in 1999. Kilcock Heritage & Historical Society have plans to implement heritage storyboards detailing the history of the Fair Green and the 1798 rebellion in the Kilcock area. In addition, we hope to have a bronze monument to commemorate the people who died in the area which culminated in the Battle of Ovidstown of which over 224 people were killed a few fields west of Kilcock. It also acts as a beautiful green space for residents and kids. No other European country would allow a civic space like this to be destroyed and neither should we. Kilcock Heritage & Historical Society in no way intends to obstruct, impede or block Irish Rail and the much needed rail upgrade. We merely hope that they reconsider the value of the Fair Green and ensure its protection for centuries to come. 

The Triple Lock is the core of Ireland's Neutrality. It is a principled position taken by Ireland that, under international law, requires impartiality in refraining from supporting or helping either side in a military conflict, thereby reducing the potential for prolonging or intensifying war.  We believe that there should be no changes to the Triple Lock and Ireland's Neutral status without a referendum where all the people of Ireland can decide. The Triple Lock was cited as a key guarantee of Irish neutrality during both the Nice Treaty (2002) and Lisbon Treaty (2009) referendum campaigns, and removing the Triple Lock would fundamentally undermine Irish neutrality. Ireland's neutrality keeps us safe and is what has kept us out of foreign conflicts. With world politics being so volatile currently, and world peace being so fragile, now more than ever it is vital that Ireland is a voice for peace and justice and that our soldiers continue to be respected in their vitally important work as peacekeepers.  

Protecting our children from harm is the most basic responsibility and instinct of being a parent. The devastation we have seen across Europe this summer - thousands dying, including infants and young people, as a consequence of extreme heat; Irish tourists running for their lives from wildfires; children fainting and having seizures at school; nature and wildlife destroyed - is a sign of a fast worsening climate and biodiversity emergency which puts the future of all our kids and grandkids at risk.  Instead of the emergency response we need to protect children from the worst of climate harms, their Government has been back-tracking on their obligations to them. There is so much more we can do to protect our kids and give them a better chance for their future. And children and young people need it to happen now. Please join with other parents, care-givers and grandparents, and call on Taoiseach Mícháel Martin to step up for kids and future generations as he promised, and take emergency action to help protect them and their future.

Other people should join me in this campaigne because there has been many issues lately with the tullamore skate scene as the park is an unsafe place and the skatepark no longer feels like a fun place to learn to skate there is many skaters in tullamore and only one skatepark is no longer enough

Manor Street is a one-way street for cars heading into the city centre from the Cork Road direction. It has two cycle lanes, one to the left of the carriageway and a contraflow cycle lane on the right, to allow cyclists travel in the opposite direction to vehicular traffic. Until recently, both of these lanes had temporary plastic bollards marking them out, and separating cyclists from vehicular traffic.  Two weeks ago, the temporary plastic bollards were removed from the Manor Street cycle lanes in Waterford by Waterford City and County Council. The Council has not published any plans for upgrading the cycle lane surface, and there are no plans for Manor Street in the Council's 2026 Active Travel plan.  While the bollards offered limited physical protection, they made a big difference to the safety of cyclists using the lanes by clearly marking the edges of the cycle lane and creating a visual barrier. While the bollards may have been an inconvenience to drivers who expect to be able to pull into the kerb (and even onto the footpath), they made the street somewhat safer for cyclists.  They also helped to prevent the dangerous practice of cars parking in the cycle lane and blocking it.  Waterford Bicycle Users Group (a local group of the Irish Cycling Campaign) wants these bollards reinstated and a plan for upgrading the cycle lanes on Manor Street to be included in the 2027 active travel schemes.