Irish Politics, Politicians in Ireland, TDs, Irish Government

Bend over and take it

Seen on Twenty Major - Still smoking in Dublin bars

I’m sorry to go on about this but it’s just staggering. The Government tonight confirmed a €600m buyout of the West Link toll bridge which will pave the way for barrier-free tolling next year. Transport Minister Martin Cullen said National Toll Roads (NTR) will hand over the operation of the M50 system in 2008 and will be paid €50m every year ... Continue reading »

Yes, Minister

Seen on Public Inquiry

I see Tom Mulcahy, tax cheat and former boss of AIB, the most corrupt bank in Ireland, has been appointed chairman of the new and powerful Dublin Transport Authority and Railway Procurement Agency by Transport Minister Martin Cullen. The previous head of RPA, Padraic White, had the audacity to publicly oppose the Minister’s plans to merge DTA ... Continue reading »

Representing or representative?

Seen on Daniel K. Sullivan

The Tony Killeen saga drags on. According to our friends in the fourth estate he is coming under increasing pressure to resign. From where? Bertie? Killeen’s defence appears modelled on the Bart Simpson mantra of ‘I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, you can’t prove anything.’ It is quite unlikely that he will stand aside at this point though the ... Continue reading »

Drink driving.

Seen on Fatmammycat.com

From the Indo. “ONE-in-five drivers killed driving to work in the morning is over the drink-drive limit. These findings are revealed in an unpublished Health and Safety Executive (HSE) report. They completely undermine claims that gardai are annoying drivers going to work by giving breath tests. The new research was commissioned by the Road ... Continue reading »

Revised Rules of the Road Booklet

Seen on Primal Sneeze

Unlike my previous post about the Rules of the Road, this is serious. Could be deadly serious. Warning: This a long rambling rant, which has been simmering for a long time and I just need to get it off my chest. If two to three paragraphs is your limit, then go away now. On 2 June, 2006, Minister for Transport Martin Cullen published Draft ... Continue reading »

I React in Dis-belief…

Seen on Fergus O'Rourke - Journal - Of Laws and Men

… and I hope that I am not alone. Our Minister for Enterprise has expressed his “utter disbelief” that the ICTU is, among other things, suggesting that BES investments would be used as a tax-avoidance measure. Neither I nor (I imagine) the ICTU is unaware that many BES companies benefit from the scheme, and that the State does well from its ... Continue reading »

Minister to Nowhere

Seen on Tuppenceworth.ie blog

If you’d like to see the fruits of my previous efforts with a tube of glue and a potato, head over to the VoteTube.org site now and see Minister to Nowhere I tried posting the video here, but it just broke the site. Feel free to tell your friends. competition» General» Ireland» martin cullen» politics» potato» spud» votetube» voting» ... Continue reading »

Fuck off Vintners, again

Seen on Twenty Major - still smoking in Dublin bars.

Those cunts really have some nerve. Because it’s Christmas and the season to be jolly Garda checkpoints to snare drink-drivers are set up. The vintners association actually called for compensation to be paid to some of its members who would suffer loss of earnings because people couldn’t drive to the pub. Fucking insane. Seriously. To have the ... Continue reading »

Attention Martin Cullen

Seen on Up a Tree in North Dublin

Read this article. Digest it. Act on it. That is all.Site Feed ... Continue reading »

Yeah right!

Seen on ellybabes

So Minister for Transport Martin Cullen stated today that he plans to reduce the wait for driving tests in Ireland to 8 weeks by this time next year. Yeah right! Even if he does give the Road Safety Authority €10 million to help clear the backlog there’s no way they’re going to manage it – unless they follow the precedents set before and just ... Continue reading »

The Minister for Carnage

Seen on Up a Tree in North Dublin

I only just came across this post on Public Inquiry. It says it all about the way this government works. Read it. The interview between Pat Kenny and that clown Martin Cullen will make you grind your teeth in frustration. This is the conclusion to the piece. It sums it up perfectly: “Minister Cullen has been in the job for two years, the ... Continue reading »

Fare’s Fair

Seen on The Byrne Blog

I had a good meeting with Martin Cullen on Saturday at the Ard-Fheis also. I asked him to look again at the issue of train ticket prices from County Meath which are massively higher per mile, than say even from Balbriggan, only a couple of stops up the line. Brian Hanratty of the local commuter group ages ago gave me a full spreadsheet of the ... Continue reading »

Lethal weapon

Seen on /~colmmacc/

Lethal weapon Almost every time I drive I think of Tony Kelly, a friend, and friend of the family, who was killed when a truck hit him on the N4 at Palmerstown. There was never a suggestion that bad driving or speeding was involved, crossing a dual carriageway at a bend as a pedestrian was the major contributory factor, but the fallout from the ... Continue reading »

Sod turned on Limerick Tunnel

Seen on The Limerick Blogger

Transport Minister Martin Cullen was in Limerick this morning to turn the sod on the Shannon River tunnel, which will be part of the Limerick Ring Road. The 900 metre long tunnel is part of phase II of the ring road project, and will cost an estimated 100 million euro to build. It is expected that tolls from the tunnel will generate as much as ... Continue reading »

Cullen to produce a new Road Safety Plan sometime

Seen on Finfacts Ireland Blog

This is another week where the number of deaths of young people on Irish roads has got a lot of media attention and there will inevitably be another week because necessary action will not be taken. The accident-prone Minister for Transport Martin Cullen has said that the Government wanted to completely overhaul the licensing system because ... Continue reading »

Privatisation is lovely, except for the…

Seen on European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.

Privatisation is lovely, except for the riff-raff. by Colman Thu Oct 19th, 2006 at 11:08:36 AM EDT In Ireland we’re currently being entertained by the farce surrounding the recently privatised Aer Lingus, the (now ex) state owned airline. Ryanair, headed by the annoying but funny Micheal O’Leary, launched a takeover bid for the airline to the... Continue reading »

Dublin Airport Metro Announced

Seen on The Dublin Community Blog :: A group blog all about life in Dublin City, Ireland

The Minister for Transport, Martin Cullen, has just announced the route for the new Metro North line from Dublin City Centre, to Dublin Airport. Metro North will run for 17 kilometres will take in both Ballymun and Drumcondra along the way. There will be 15 stops starting at St Stephen’s Green, O’Connell Bridge, Parnell Square (possible ... Continue reading »

Cullen to announce route of Dublin’s metro

Seen on BreakingNews.ie: Ireland

Minister for Transport Martin Cullen is due to announce the route for Dublin’s proposed metro line later this morning.... Continue reading »

Just press the button and the machine does the…

Seen on Skin Flicks

Minister for profligacy Martin Cullen is likely tearing through more packs of fags than usual today after hearing the news that European hackers are able to hack his 60 million euro machines effortlessly, detect votes as they are cast and even manipulate the results. Cullen, who championed the introduction of e-voting in the face of vociferous... Continue reading »

More on Aer Fungus

Seen on Twenty Major - still smoking in Dublin bars.

haha, this Aer Lingus thing is priceless. Minister for Transport, Martin Cullen, was on the TV saying nobody could have predicted that Ryanair would try and make a bid for the company. Are they not embarrassed to go on TV and say things like that? It would be like a company inventing the most delicious pie in the world then saying “My goodness,... Continue reading »

Fermoy bypassed

Seen on Julianstown

Martin Cullen opens the Fermoy bypass. Isn’t he great! Says it will take 17,000 cars out of Fermoy, Watergrasshill and Rathcormac. According to NRA, that’s almost all the traffic. He should come up here to Julianstown, we’ve got 22,000 vehicles per day to dispose off. You know they started bypassing the towns on the road to Cork 20 years ago,... Continue reading »

McDowell offers update of Fianna Fáil 1977 …

Seen on Finfacts Blog

Given the shambles at Dublin Airport where the chaos at peak times will not be alleviated with the opening of a second terminal for 3-4 more years, PD leader Michael McDowell has a brass neck in coming forward like his FF colleague Martin Cullen with a sweeping infrastructure plan. It’s another port plan that’s not even McDowell’s own and it... Continue reading »

Local groups demand railway revolution

Seen on Meath on Track news blog l Navan Railway Line l Commuter Rail Link

Sunday Business Post, 17 September 2006 By Ken Griffin It has been almost 20 years since the last passenger trains passed through Moate, Co Westmeath, but local publican William Allen is confident they will soon return. It has been almost 20 years since the last passenger trains passed through Moate, Co Westmeath, but local publican William... Continue reading »

Navan rail ‘no nearer than in 1998′: campaign

Seen on Meath on Track news blog l Navan Railway Line l Commuter Rail Link

Meath Chronicle, 16th September, 2006 NAVAN rail campaigners have warned that reinstatement of the Navan line is no nearer to delivery now than it was when Iarnród Éireann commissioned it’s last study in 1998 and when it recieved a route selection report from consultants six years ago. The rail campaigners welcomed a progress report to be... Continue reading »

‘Sustainable’ transport solutions

Seen on toirtap

In a letter to the Irish Times today Michael O’Leary writes: “The Dublin metro makes even less sense than wasting €50 million on electronic voting machines. Linking Dublin airport to St Stephen’s Green will not encourage any early morning passengers from around the city to do anything other than drive to the airport on the already congested M50.... Continue reading »