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13 Jun
Siding with Sammy
An article about John Gormley seen on turbulenceahead.com
I don't think our own Environment Minister John Gormley will be siding with Sammy any time soon mind. Only this week he gave his imprimatur to yet another department funded study that took the most extreme assumptions about climate …... Continue reading »
07 Jun
Save Our Cows
An article about John Gormley seen on turbulenceahead.com
Minister John Gormley is already making noises about culling the national cow herd as a radical measure to meet our 2012 target. By about 50% according to some calculations. Something tells me this will not be an easy sell to the Irish …... Continue reading »
06 Jun
I don't care what John Gormley thinks
An article about John Gormley seen on irisheagle.blogspot.com
I love driving. Not always, true, but there are times when I just love the feeling of being in the car, cruising along, listening to the radio. I was driving out of Dublin this evening just late enough so that the traffic was nearly …... Continue reading »
05 Jun
Left at Lisbon
An article about John Gormley seen on jameslawless.ie
Interestingly this million-sig petition idea came from John Gormley who similarly has comparable ideas at local level in the recent local government green paper. The treaty has been in progress for over ten years, and I believe in order …... Continue reading »
My Dublin – Nicola Gordon Bowe
An article about John Gormley seen on thedubliner.typepad.com/the_dubliner_magazine
Heroes John Gormley for upholding the Green Party; Feasta (the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability); Kieran Owens for his Event Guide; Jane Powers for her impassioned ecological/gardening features in the Irish Times; …... Continue reading »
31 May
Light Walker - Dusk 2 Dawn Projections - Customs House Quay
An article about John Gormley seen on thepictureworks.blogspot.com
The Customs House now houses the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Minister John Gormley will be present. For further information on Climate Change please veisit www.change.ie For further information on Dusk 2 …... Continue reading »
28 May
A Mayor for Westport?
An article about John Gormley seen on councillorkeithmartin.blogspot.com
… is a dream job and the citizens of this town should have the opportunity to elect their Mayor. It's a job I would love to do and it would be an honour if I was allowed the chance by Minister John Gormley to contest it!”... Continue reading »
Greens announce further Civil Union delay
An article about John Gormley seen on gaire.com/e/f
John Gormley announced further delays in the proposed Civil Union legislation. Speaking at the launch of 'Pride 08', the Irish Times suggests there are divisions between the parties. Gormley distinguishes between the forthcoming …... Continue reading »
John Gormley wants your (pets) balls
An article about John Gormley seen on jazzbiscuit.com
It’s national Spay week! John Gormley doesn’t neuter animals: he stares at them sternly and their jiggly bits fall off. Full story at Le Craic.... Continue reading »
Come on, come on let’s spay together
An article about John Gormley seen on lecraic.com
John Gormley was at the launch, for it is his department which oversees the work of dog pounds in Ireland. In 2006, 14598 unwanted dogs were destroyed. As the campaign slogan says :. “40 a day means it’s time to spay” …... Continue reading »
08 May
Minister Gormley visits Fota House
An article about John Gormley seen on fotahouse.com/news
Mr John Gormley, TD, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, today (21 April 2008) visited Fota House, Arboretum & Gardens and paid tribute to the Irish Heritage Trust’s achievements at Fota since it took over …... Continue reading »
07 May
Beaglers told to assume end to season extensions
An article about John Gormley seen on banbloodsports.wordpress.com
… there will be no further extensions to their hunt season. This very much welcomed development was revealed in a letter from Environment Minister, John Gormley’s office. ICABS has renewed its appeal to the Minister to fully […]... Continue reading »
06 May
Getting serious
An article about John Gormley seen on yesterdaysfuture.net/blog
In his opening address to Dublin’s Convergence 13 conference, Irish Minister for the Environment John Gormley captured an increasingly common theme in smart government approaches to sustainability: the need for citizens and elected …... Continue reading »
Home Bound, Carbon Lite
An article about John Gormley seen on grandgesture.blogspot.com
Minister John Gormley is ready with some simple suggestions to help us all decrease our contribution. 1. Become a vegetarian. Eat only vegetables, and you can reduce the amount of CO2 that you exude. Avoid meat and the world will …... Continue reading »
05 May
Bikes for billboards
An article about John Gormley seen on wowblog.co.uk
Split applications, dubious rezoning maps, and the Bord rejecting all “Metropoles”: to add to this the Dublin City Business Association has written to Minister John Gormley asking him “to investigate”. The only question is what’s next? …... Continue reading »
“It must be considered exceptional…”
An article about John Gormley seen on sluggerotoole.com
The Irish Times today predicts [subs req] that the Republic of Ireland’s Environment Minister, John Gormley, is expected to make an order putting the Woodstown archaeological site in Co Waterford, unearthed in 2003, on the Record of …... Continue reading »
Gormley: Viking settlement artefacts to remain buried
An article about John Gormley seen on archaeonews.blogspot.com
A plan for research at the 1000-year-old Woodstown site outside Waterford city is to be drawn up, but Minister John Gormley accepted the recommendation of a working group that the area not be fully.... Continue reading »
30 Apr
Human Rights and Political Wrongs
An article about John Gormley seen on jbwan.com
Then there was the recent episode of Questions and Answers on RTE television, following on from the comments made by John Gormley of the Green Party in relation to Tibet and the controversy that it caused. I was shocked at the response …... Continue reading »
22 Apr
UNESCO status is only a distraction
An article about John Gormley seen on independent.ie/opinion/letters
I AM writing in relation to Environment Minister John Gormley's calls for the Tara Skryne Valley to be considered for nomination to UNESCO's World Heritage List (Irish Independent, April 12).... Continue reading »
21 Apr
Anti-Dublin incinerator campaign call for all concerned to attend …
An article about John Gormley seen on peoplebeforeprofitdse.wordpress.com
CRAI has sent a legal summons to the Minister for the Environment John Gormley, the Irish State and Dublin City Council to answer the charge in court regarding their failure to enforce EU Directives in relation to the planning and …... Continue reading »
15 Apr
The Extraorindary Effect of John Gormley
An article about John Gormley seen on everydayispaddysday.blogspot.com
John Gormley, and indeed his Green colleagues, are pretend politicians. They are in Government because the experienced boys in Fianna Fail think it makes them - Fianna Fail - look good. They think it gives them 'green' credentials. …... Continue reading »
John Gormely vs. China
An article about John Gormley seen on jazzbiscuit.com
Has John finally found something worthy of fighting him? The Chinese Ambassador walked out of the convention in Dundalk when Mr Gormley condemned human rights abuses in Tibet and called on the Chinese Government to enter into dialogue …... Continue reading »
Eat Your Greens: Gormo Grows A Pair
An article about John Gormley seen on thechancer.ie
In one of the most shocking developments in recent Irish political history, Green Party Grand Poobah John ‘John’ Gormley (pictured, pumping eco-friendly weights) expressed an ACTUAL opinion over the weekend… Not only that, he decided to …... Continue reading »
13 Apr
Convention 2008
An article about John Gormley seen on cuffestreet.blogspot.com
I've never seen Political Correspondents hightail it out of the Conference hall during a leader's speech before, but obviously once the Chinese delegation upped and left halfway through John Gormley's speech, they knew there was a story …... Continue reading »
Manners
An article about John Gormley seen on juliusgeezer.blogspot.com
I was mildly amused this morning on hearing on the radio that Green Party leader, Environment Minister, former activist, and king capitulator John Gormley had comdemned Chinese abuses in Tibet, called for dialogue with the Dalai Lama, …... Continue reading »