Green isle may soon be a thing of the past
Trampled underfoot by this stampede of arrogance is the voice of the ordinairy person, fear and reason buried under a dunghill of lies and propaganda.
THE decision to build a toxic waste incinerator in Cork harbour is an insult to the people not just of Cork but of the entire island.
This is a national issue and anyone who values democracy must become active in opposing this unnecessary and potentially lethal development. This project will send the message that the green isle is a thing of the past and that Ireland now is a gigantic dump open for business. This incinerator will be the first of many.
With voter apathy already at such high levels, An Bord Pleanála’s blatantly political decision to ignore the evidence as presented by the people of Cork, and indeed the board’s own inspector, is likely to have a negative impact on the willingness of ordinary people to engage in the democratic process.
Cork has had enough... Ireland has had enough.
Our children have the right to eat clean food, drink clean water and breathe clean air. No politician or faceless company has the right to deprive them of these basic rights. Children also have the right to inherit a healthy democracy.
It’s time for good men and women to retake their democracy and to speak out against the direction in which this administration is going.
If we fail to do so, incineration will be the funeral pyre atop which our democracy will ultimately burn.
John Russell,
10a, McCurtain Street,
Cork.
