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Tag Archives: Irish
Ireland should buy an aircraft carrier with its aid budget
The recent theft of €4 million from the overseas aid given to Uganda, by Ireland, should lead to a rethinking of the Irish foreign aid programme. Despite Ireland’s serious economic woes, it has still managed to fund an aid programme … Continue reading
Posted in Technical & Discussion
Tagged aircraft carriers, boat, foreign aid budget, infrastructure, ireland, Irish, ship, Uganda
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Irish dry stone walls
The shear volume of stone walls in the West of Ireland is amazing. These simple but effective structures are used as field boundaries. The comparison with the East of Ireland is stark where the fields are larger and are usually divided by … Continue reading
Posted in Historic Buildings
Tagged construction, dry stone walls, hedgerows, ireland, Irish, stone walls, walls
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Irish construction and road deaths at new lows
Amid all the economic doom and gloom last year. 2011 still gave us some reasons to celebrate. This is that Irish road accident and construction deaths plunged to new lows. Irish road deaths during 2011 were the lowest since records … Continue reading
Posted in Technical & Discussion
Tagged 2011, construction, Construction deaths, ireland, Irish, Irish industry fatalities
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Cool Irish weather attracts Google, new data centre announced
In a previous article I discussed the different energy requirements for heating and cooling in various Countries around the world, click here for link. One of the observations in this article was that Ireland had the least need for air … Continue reading
Posted in Technical & Discussion
Tagged climate, cool weather, data centres, Google, ireland, Irish, Jobs
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On the road: Playing chicken with sheep
The Curragh plains are in the East of Ireland, in County Kildare. It is a lovely area of flat open grass land, (approx. 20 square km), most of which is common land. As the land is open grazing, visitors driving … Continue reading
Posted in Technical & Discussion
Tagged dangerous roads, ireland, Irish, kildare, roads, The curragh
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For peats sake, leave the raised bog alone
Driving around County Kildare I have noticed a small number of amateur protest signs erected by an organisation called the KTCA or the Kildare turf cutters association. If we didn’t have enough problems to sort out in the Country at the moment, the KTCA are protesting against the recent Government ban on cutting turf in specific locations. The ban is an attempt to protect the last remaining raised bogs, located in the East of the Country, as apposed to the more common blanket bogs which are present in the West of Ireland. Continue reading
Posted in Technical & Discussion
Tagged conservation, ireland, Irish, Irish bogs, Irish turf, protest, Raised bog, turf
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The Irish Construction Industry and political influence
There is a commonly held perception among Irish construction workers that a Fianna Fail led Government in power is ‘good’ for the construction industry in Ireland. Fianna Fail is the traditional party of power in Ireland. There will be a general election in Ireland next Friday. With this in mind, I think it might be worth examining the idea that a Fianna Fail led Government is good for the construction industry more closely. Continue reading
Posted in Technical & Discussion
Tagged construction, Election, Employment, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, ireland, Irish, Politics
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Snap, said my car engines timing belt
The timing belt in my car has failed while I was driving on the M50 motorway. There was no bang or loud noise when it happened, the engine just stopped working. The computer display in the car simply stated ‘check fuel injectors’. The car is being fixed at the moment, but as I have learned a lot about timing belts in the last week, I thought I would share it with you all. Continue reading
Posted in Technical & Discussion
Tagged camshaft, car, engine problem, engine valves, engineer, engineering, Irish, roads, Snapped, Timing belt failure
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Ireland’s M7 motorway complete
Last week marked a mile stone day in the history of Ireland’s road infrastructure. The last section of the M7 opened, between the towns of Nenagh and Castletown. This final section of link motorway is 36km long and it cost 365 million euro to build. The total length of this completed motorway is 195 km. As a result, apart from one signal controlled traffic junction (Newlands Cross), ever major city in Ireland is linked to the capital, Dublin, with either a motorway or high quality duel carriageway. Continue reading
Irish ghost housing estates, what now?
The helpful engineer visited two Irish ghost housing estates in County Longford and was amazed to see how the buildings have been left unprotected. Continue reading
Posted in Technical & Discussion
Tagged Ghost estates, housing, ireland, Irish, recession
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