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The Corrs Lough Erin Shore
The Corrs Lough Erin Shore unplugged
Length: 270
Rating: 4.90 (532 ratings)
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LOUGH REE WATER
BALCONYTV.COM 9/05/2007
PRESENTED BY TOM MILLETT
The environmental, ecological, and financial impact of the proposed abstraction of water from Lough Ree by Dublin City Council could be disastrous says a new report commissioned by the Lough Ree Task Force.
The report was created by Dr Paul Johnston, Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin, and Jack O'Sullivan of Environmental Management Services. Several problems with the proposed project are highlighted in the report. One of the major issues appears to be the possibly irreversible environmental and ecological impact that the proposed abstraction would have on the surrounding areas. "Plants, vegetation, and ecology need certain conditions to survive. The impact that the water abstraction would have on this needs to be evaluated using careful modelling and evaluation." said Dr Johnston.
The report points out that certain areas in the Shannon are under conservation. "The Shannon catchment, from which Dublin City Council is proposing to take large quantities of water, contains a significant number of vulnerable and important Natural Heritage Areas (NHAs), Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), and Special Protection Areas (SPAs) for wildlife. Lough Ree itself is designated a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and is important at both European and national levels," says the report. Dr Johnston believes DCC have failed to properly evaluate the environmental impact on Lough Ree and the surrounding waterways. "The environmental impact on the area should determine whether this option is the best. The alternatives have not been considered significantly," said Dr Johnston.
He also believes that only when a full evaluation of the environmental impact is given for each option should a choice be made. "You need to consider the navigation rights, how the power stations will be affected, flooding on the river, and farm land, etc. You should also consider the ecological effects on the ground water," he added.
PJ Walsh of the Lough Ree Task Force feels that the whole plan to extract water from Lough Ree to supply Dublin City with water is ludicrous. There is major concern from local businesses who use the Shannon that the water extraction will lower the level of water in the Shannon as well as on Lough Ree, Lough Dergh, and the River Inny. "I have talked to people who are in the cruiser business. During the summer there are areas of the Shannon a meter deep. If the water levels drop even further they will be out of business," said Mr Walsh. He understands that the people of Dublin need water, however there is no doubt in his mind that the abstraction will be detrimental.
One concern which Mr Walsh feels needs to be addressed is the lack of risk assessment on the project. The report claims that; "The reliance of the Dublin water supply on a single large-scale source would create a dependence on that source, so that in the inevitable event of widespread adverse effects becoming apparent in the Shannon catchment area, there is no provision for a shutdown of the scheme. And the feasibility study lacks a risk assessment of the viability of the overall scheme." If it is found that the abstraction of water from Lough Ree is causing serious problems it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to stop the project.
Two other options were given to Dublin City Council; they were the abstraction of water from either the River Barrow or Slaney, or from both rivers at times when flow volumes would permit the increased abstraction. The other option was the abstraction of sea water from Dublin Bay through an undersea pipeline. However both these options have been turned down. The Lough Ree option appears to have been decided because it is technically feasible and the most cost-effective.
- ATHLONE ADVERTISER, MARIA DALY 4/05/07
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough_Ree
http://www.athloneadvertiser.ie/index.php?aid=4470
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Length: 135
Rating: 4.00 (4 ratings)
Tags: balconytv shannon water lough ree dublin ireland
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interview with adam lough
nyc cable access show "The Resident" interviews "Bomb the System" director, Adam Lough. www.theresident.net
Length: 234
Rating: 4.40 (23 ratings)
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Ernest Lough - the first famous choirboy
Here's the first ten minutes of a documentary from 1994 about Ernest Lough of the Temple Church Choir and his celebrated 1920s recording of Hear My Prayer/Oh for the Wings of a Dove. We hear from Ernest, his son (who made the film for Channel Four) Dudley Moore, Richard Attenborough and others...
Length: 564
Rating: 4.90 (18 ratings)
Tags: ernest lough wings dove hear prayer dudley moore richard attenborough boy choir treble
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Kathleen Ferrier, The Fairy Lough
Lough-a-reem-a! Lough-a-reem-a;
Lies so high among the heather;
A little lough, a dark lough,
The water's black an' deep.
Ould herons go a-fishin' there,
An' seagulls all together
Float roun' the one green island
On the fairy lough asleep,
Lough-a-reem-a! Lough-a-reem-a;
When the sun goes down at seven,
When the hills are dark an' airy,
'Tis a curlew whistles sweet!
Then somethin' rustles all the reeds
That stand so thick an' even;
A little wave runs up the shore
An' flees, as if on feet.
Lough-a-reem-a! Lough-a-reem-a;
Stars come out, an' stars are hidin';
The wather whispers on the stones;
The flittherin' moths are free.
One'st before the mornin' light
The Horsemen will come ridin'
Roun' an' roun' the fairy lough
And no one there to see.
Sir Charles Villiers Standford
(1852-1924)
Length: 224
Rating: 5.00 (10 ratings)
Tags: kathleen ferrier fairy lough classical
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Shannon trip 2007 - Lough Derg (Part 1)
Anchored in the middle of Lough Derg, on the river Shannon, Ireland, just chillin'
Length: 418
Rating: 3.50 (2 ratings)
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The Wolfe Tones ~ Lough Sheelin Eviction
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Sung By: Wolfe Tones
Mass evictions or "clearances" will forever be associated with the Irish Famine. "It has been estimated that, excluding peaceable surrenders, over a quarter of a million people were evicted between 1849 and 1854. The total number of people who had to leave their holdings in the period is likely to be around half a million and 200,000 small holdings were obliterated"
Under a law imposed in 1847, called the "Gregory Clause", no tenant holding more than a quarter acre of land was eligible for public assistance. To become eligible, the tenant had to surrender his holding to his landlord. Some tenants sent their children to the workhouse as orphans so they could keep their land and still have their children fed.
Other tenants surrendered their land, but tried to remain living in the house; however, landlords would not tolerate it. "In many thousands of cases estate-clearing landlords and agents used physical force or heavy-handed pressure to bring about the destruction of cabins which they sought."
Many others who sought entrance to the workhouses were required to return to their homes and uproot or level them. Others had their houses burned while they were away in the workhouse.
"When tenants were formally evicted, it was usually the practice of the landlord's bailiffs - his specially hired 'crowbar brigade' - to level or burn the affected dwellings there and then, as soon as the tenants effects had been removed, in the presence of a large party of soldiers or police who were likely to quell any thought of serious resistance."
"These helpless creatures are not only unhoused, but often driven off the land, no one remaining on the lands being allowed to lodge or harbor them. Or they, perhaps, linger about the spot, and frame some temporary shelter out of materials of their old homes against a broken wall, or behind a ditch or fence, or in a bog-hole, places unfit for human habitations .... disease, together with the privations of other kinds which they endure, before long carry them off.
As soon as one horde of houseless and all but naked paupers are dead, or provided for in the workhouse, another wholesale eviction doubles the number, who in their turn pass through the same ordeal of wandering from house to house, or burrowing in bogs or behind ditches, till broken down by privation and exposure to the elements, they seek the workhouse, or die by the roadside."
"There were hoards of poor on the roads every day. The Catholics who could gave some little they had to these, a saucer of oatmeal, a handful of potatoes, a drink of milk or a little bottle of sweet-milk to carry away with them. It was not unusual to see a woman with two, three or four children half-naked, come in begging for alms, and often several of these groups in one day, men too. If the men got work they worked for little or nothing and when they were no longer needed they took to the road again. These wandering groups had no homes and no shelter for the night. They slept in the barns of those that had barns on an armful of straw with a sack or sack or some such thing to cover them."
Length: 334
Rating: 4.80 (33 ratings)
Tags: wolfe tones ireland irish ballad dublin lough sheelin famine history
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