The Mills of Cork Corporation grind slowly.

On December 7 2009 I posted a picture showing litter outside the Boardwalk restaurant in town.

On December 10 I emailed the Environment Section of Cork City Council complaining about the litter - after all the Council tells us that they take littering seriously.

However a reply didn't seem to be forthcoming so on January 7 I resent the email to Environment but also copied in the Corporate Affairs section as they are the guardians of the Customer Charter.

No response from them either.

Judge my surprise when I received an email from the Council on January 20 - a good six weeks after my initial contact. In it I was told that they examined the area on January 4 and it was found to be clean. I did wonder if they would have taken action sooner if it was a small shop owned by a nobody rather than a restaurant fronted by Cork's Loudest & Most-Opinionated mouth ?

So folks, let it be known - the City Council's Rapid Reaction Force is out there and keeping an eye on our city.

Dirty rotten Douglas

Dirty rotten Douglas
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Reminds me of Pink Floyd

Reminds me of Pink Floyd
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A question to Councillors

Councillors:

Prior to the bad weather what did ye do to ascertain if your Local Authority was ready for bad winter weather ?

Did you contact your Roads manager and establish if there were sufficient stocks of material on hand ?

Did you contact your Finance officer to see if there was overtime budget available ?

When you saw the forecasts for bad weather did you ring the relevant people in your authority and ask if they were going to be going out gritting ?

Did you keep your constituents up to date with what was happening ?

Or did you wait until you awoke out of your post-Christmas slumber and caught up with the events as noted in the indo ?

More Atlantic Pond

More Atlantic Pond
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Icy Atlantic Pond

Icy Atlantic Pond
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Is this the right attitude ?

From Boards.ie : ". In my books the lad is not innocent. He has not been found innocent by a jury of his peers. They failed to make a decision in this case. (O and Innocent until proven guilty me arse.......he shouldnt be allowed to walk free)" Written by a serving member of An Garda Siochana.

Shame on you Boardwalk.

Yesterday morning I was walking past the Boardwalk (owned/ fronted by that great Cork mouthpiece Neill Blenderville) and I was dismayed and disgusted to see the large number of cigarette butts outside.

I don't know whether this litter is a damning indictment of the clientele or the management but surely Mr Blenderville could take some time off from his beal bocht bleatings and do something constructive.

Go fetch a brush and dustpan Neill.