Green Party Senator Mark Dearey has welcomed new regulations to control recreational activities in sensitive nature areas like along the River Boyle, in the Baltray Boyne estuary area and on Bettystown and Laytown sand dunes.
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Local Green Party candidate, Páraic McKevitt for the Dundalk / Carlingford Area has described as unacceptable the footpath and roadway arrangements along the main road in Omeath.
Green candidates urge residents to take part in food campaign - More home grown food is one recipe that can take Ireland forward.
Páraic McKevitt, Green Party candidate in the Carlingford / Dundalk Ward, has joined his colleagues in urging residents to take part in "Get Ireland Growing", a campaign to encourage food growing at home and in the community.
Mark has called on the planners in Louth Co Co to apply the highest standards in design and delivery of any development adjacent to the pier at Gyles Quay “I would be delighted to see an end to the decay of this site over the years but it is imperative that housing densities and design are in keeping with the unique character of this seafront”
Commenting today on Seamus Kirk TD’s call for sewage treatment facilities in Omeath, Green Party Councillor Mark Dearey highlighted the fact that this facility has already been identified
In the current very hot weather a number of unattended cars at beaches and in the mountains have been broken into ruining for tourists for day trippers what should have been a pleasant day. “I have brought this to the attention of the Gardai and have asked that the car parks at beaches in particular be controlled over the rest of the summer.”
Councillor Dearey assists with campaign. At the invitation of the local residents in Glenmore Cllr Mark Dearey chaired a highly effective meeting to organize objections to the proposed licensing for prospecting in the mountains by Australian mining company Broken Hill Properties.
Following the meeting on June 8th at which Cllr Dearey proposed that any design statement needs to also encompass the needs of Omeath. Cllr Dearey urged all parties to find agreement based on community needs.