10 Years

This is the 10 year anniversary of when we lost Teresa and Baby Chris in a house fire in Oldcourt, Co Wicklow.

To this day, tho many Councillors have made promises to tirelessly campagin to have the service in North Wicklow upgraded, nothing has changed, if anything the services is the same as it was 10 years ago.  We all need to ensure that Councillors who made promises and were elected on those promises, need to stay where they are till they have for filled their campaign promises.  So I ask you to VOTE NO

NO VOTE, NO CAMPAIGN PROMISES MET

Elections are upon us and we need to ensure that we ask the right questions of the candidates when they call looking for our votes.  Take a moment of your time and think about what you want to ask.  This is the time for candidates to stand up to the plate, we need to ensure that they have only the best interest of the people in mind by going forward, not self serving people as we have seen in politics to-date.

Many local candidates have put their name forward in this election, but I can tell you now they will not be getting my vote.

Campaign promises have not been met so in my mind they have still not done the job they were elected to do, and until that job is done they should stay where they are.

 

VOTE NOT FOR WHAT CANDIDATES WANT, BUT FOR WHAT YOU WANT….

Election fever has hit our country again, we see the posters going up and pamphlets have started to arrive. People will be asking for your vote, making promises, looking into the issues you raise etc. I say to you don’t be afraid to ask the hard hitting questions, we all have a right to be represented 100% by our elected councillors. I urge you to remember to ask them what they have done to improve the fire service in North Wicklow, and what they will do to ensure we have a service 24 x 7 by years end. I have had the promises, the vow to do something, what happened…. zilch, nada, zero….. sadly we the residents have paid the price, more people have become victims to the inadequate fire service we have in North Wicklow, and I add, not just North Wicklow, the whole of Ireland’s fire service needs an overhaul. Let your voice be heard, vote not for what candidates want, but for what you want….

MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD 26 FEBRUARY 2008

JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT, HERITAGE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT minutes of the meeting held on the Tuesday, 26 February 2008

http://www.bebo.com/Link.jsp?Url=http%3A%2F%2Fdebates.oireachtas.ie%2FDDebate.aspx%3FF%3DENJ20080226.xml%26Node%3DH3%23H3

Teresa & Chris In Loving Memory

Young lives tragically taken from us.

Statement to Minister of the Environment

Minister for The Environment urged to set up an independent expert investigation into 2 Firefighters Deaths in Bray

Firefighters Wives & Families, SIPTU, Union, NRFA Representatives & T.D’s met on Tuesday 8th January in the Esplanade Hotel in Bray and issued a statement to the Minister of the Environment, John Gormley.

Fat Cats

Fat cats are getting fatter and we the hard working average Joe is footing the bill. Bertie and his cohorts give themselves a big clap on the back, plus a pay rise more than some of us will ever earn in a year. They say they don’t have the money to improve the basic infrastructure in Ireland, but can give themselves a fat pay rise. The money they have taken from the people for a job badly done is criminal. The money should have been put into our Fire Service, Health Service etc, not their pocket. If ever there was a clear case for the people of Ireland to see just what our so called protectors in government think of us, this is it. People are dying all around us and these jokers think it acceptable. If it was you or I who performed in this way in our employment we would have been sacked long ago, instead these people get rewarded. For shame that these people represent the honest hardworking people of Ireland…

Realities of the Retained Fire Service in Bray

The above document came into my house yesterday, and is a true fact of what our Retained Fire-fighters have to put-up with on a daily basis.  In this day and age this is unacceptable.  We need to write, e-mail, phone, and hound our Council, Government, TD’s, Senators and Councillors, daily, weekly never letting up on them, until the situation in North Wicklow changes.  We will accept nothing less than a fulltime fire & emergency fire service, 24 x 7, 365 days a year for North Wicklow.

Fulltime Fire & Emergency Fire Service for North Wicklow

The families of fallen fireman Brian Murray and Mark O’Shaughnessy will next Saturday 13th October 2007 lead a march through Bray to call for a full-time fire & emergency service for the town.  The March will depart from the Town Hall at 11 a.m. 
Please support the need for a full-time fire & emergency service for North Wicklow, 24 hour, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 
Your being there will make a difference. 
www.wicklowfirepetition.tk

Bray Firefighters RIP

To honour the fire fighters who died serving their community in Bray, Co Wicklow on September 26^th 2007, we’ve set up an online petition to have the Fire and Emergency Service upgraded from a retained service to a full time service. Please follow the link below and sign our petition. Please don’t hesitate to forward the link to anyone and everyone that you think might be prepared to sign it.  

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/in-honour-of-brian-and-mark-fire-fighters-rip.html 

Thank you.

actioncommittee@wicklowtoday.com