John Gormley

This photograph was sent to me at the weekend. I am told that it was taken by “a 22-year-old cystic fibrosis patient after she was admitted to this toom in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin on Wednesday 17th last.”

Last week John visited the Young Scientists Exhibition and met some of the students from schools in Dublin South East who were taking part. Click on the image below for some more photographs:

Click the photo above to see more images of today’s protest at Dartmouth Square.

Dublin City Council has posted some drawings and photomontages of the proposed incinerator on the project web site: see here for more.

It’s worth bearing in mind that the incinerator will be 200m in length - as long as Croke Park. It will also be 55m in height - almost as tall as Liberty Hall. This is the height of the building, not the chimney stacks, which will be 100m in height. For comparison, the Spire is 120m high.

John Gormley TD with An Taoiseach and members of the Irish delegation to the UN High-level meeting on AIDS. From left to right: Conor Lenihan TD, Minister for State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Fiona O’Malley TD, An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern TD, John Gormley TD and Senator Geraldine Feeney.

John Gormley TD with Senator Geraldine Feeney, Fiona O’Malley TD and Beverley Flynn TD at the United Nations High-level Meeting on AIDS

John Gormley TD with Beverley Flynn TD, Fiona O’Malley TD and Senator Geraldine Feeney at the United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS