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….

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

Young lives tragically taken from us.

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.

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.

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

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

Full Time Fire and Emergency Service to North Wicklow

Margaret Cahill

Full Time Fire and Emergency Service to North Wicklow 

Submission date for all concerned residents to comment of the Draft Feasibility Study, copy available at: http://wicklow.ie/fire%20ser-/fire_index.html is 12th July 2007. 

I urge all residents, councillors and concerned bodies to submit all submissions by closing date.  We have taken a step forward in ensuring that change happens, and now it is up to us to ensure the pressure is kept on for change.   If you wish, just a line sent to voice you support would be appreciated.  

E-mail to: firehead@wicklowcoco.ie

Postal address:  

James Dunphy                      

Wicklow County Council,    

County Buildings,    

Whitegates,    

Wicklow Town,    

Co. Wicklow