By TOM GANNON
YOU would have been hard-pressed to find a parking spot in Yinnar recently after 25 Need For Feed trucks loaded with fodder arrived in town.
Volunteer drivers made their way from Nar Nar Goon with more than 600 bales of hay to assist the region’s farmers heavily impacted by last month’s wild storm.
The cavalcade made a pit stop in Yinnar around noon before delivering fodder to 20 commercial farms and 15 lifestyle properties in the Yinnar and Heyfield districts.
Loaded up: A cavalcade of trucks loaded with fodder arrived in Yinnar early Saturday morning. photograph tom gannon
Need for Feed founder Graham Cockerell, who started the organisation in response to the 2006 East Gippsland bushfires, said the fodder was well-received by farmers who often put their livestock’s needs before their own.
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Why does it take so long to build anything in Ireland? Cliff Taylor: Row over cheese plant hints at environmental battles to come
Sat, May 15, 2021, 01:10
It seems to take forever to get anything built in Ireland. Some of this is due to the planning process – and some is due to policy ambiguity. Two recent court decisions underline this, both providing key pointers to policy. One is about a cheese factory. The other a housing development in Dublin’s northern suburbs.
The row over the proposed cheese plant at Belview in Co Kilkenny being planned by Glanbia and a Dutch partner to make soft cheeses for continental markets is just a taster of the battles to come on environmental policy. It underlines one thing clearly – Government policy needs to decide how we are to meet our emissions targets. The planning system is not set up as a place for a proxy battle on environmental policy.
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Oscar Traynor not only took part in the Easter Rising, joining the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War but also claimed soccer was not a foreign sport, “a Celtic game, pure and simple, having its roots in the Highlands of Scotland”. One hundred years on, even wilder claims are being made and with the same spirit of principle over pragmatism.
The decision by Dublin city councillors in November to delay the Oscar Traynor Road development epitomises the muddled ideological battle lines and bloody-minded politicking that have delayed Ireland’s response to the housing crisis.
Having approved the project in 2017, councillors have now decided to start from scratch objecting to the role of a private developer. Construction on new cross-party alternative plans is unlikely to begin before 2024 whereas the original plan for 850 homes could have seen building commence this year.