People may be aware of a recently announced proposal to build a Lidl store in Carrigtwohill (e.g. see Echo article below). Some initial thoughts on same ...

🧵echolive.ie/corknews/arid-… A planning application was made to Cork County Council for that purpose, by Lidl. While that application was deemed invalid on technicalities, I presume there will be another application made in time, amending those aspects of the original which made it invalid.

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Some thoughts on the recent rainfall and flood events.

The Cobh Municipal District not affected to the same magnitude as Midleton, though several roads were badly damaged in the area, and water did get into several houses in Carrigtwohill and Glounthaune.

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1/16 In the moment, I didn't do much really. Council staff, emergency services, voluntary groups, other local councillors, local residents, etc. responded brilliantly, getting on with the problem of responding to the immediate needs.

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Further important session in tomorrow's EU @EU_ENV committee regarding the Nature Restoration Law (NRL). The NRL is much-needed & urgent.

Unfortunately, today, in Cork Co Co, a discussion on NRL among cllrs broadly attacked NRL & advocated usual tactics of delay ...

🧵 This is the motion which sparked debate, asking that a letter be written to the Ministers for Agriculture and Housing to ensure 'productive farmland' isn't compromised by the regulation, and that a kind of farm-by-farm assessment take place BEFORE an agreement is reached.

A decision was made today by cllrs (to which I stated my dissent) that the council would write to Min. for Cul/Herit/Gael, to state the members' opposition to a recent court decision which restored the conservation status of the freshwater pearl mussel in the Blackwater River 1/7 The freswater pearl mussel (scientific name: Margaritifera margaritifera) is a critically endangered species, and requires clear water (i.e. water with low turbidity) in order to feed 2/7