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Lively
Meeting Enlightens Irish Community |
Left
to right: Pat O’Neill, Chairman
of the Irish Community Forum; Amanda Bane, Irish Embassy, London;
Sir Albert Bore, Labour Leader, Birmingham City Council and Eddie
Wade, Chairman of Limerick Co. Council |
Left
to right: Eddie Wade; Vera Donnelly; Eugene Griffin, Corporate Service,
Limerick Co. Council; Pat O’Neill;
Margaret Coogan and Tom Higgins |
A
well attended meeting of around 200 people at South Bir-mingham
College in Digbeth on Thursday 13th January, were party to an infor-mative
evening reg-arding plans to create a £400
million Irish Quarter.
Plans were unveiled
by Pat O’Neill chairman of the Birmingham
Irish Forum. It was the first time that developers, city planners and
arch-itects attended such a meeting. They were joined by Sir Albert
Bore, Labour leader of Birmingham City Council and Eddie Wayne, Chairman
of Limerick Co. Council, an observer on the evening who was over on
a fact finding trip, he hopes to twin his home town Limerick with Birmingham.
The meeting was chaired by Alan Birks (Principal of South Birmingham
College), who took questions on the evening after the presen-tation.
Pat O’Neill commented, “not everything can be answered
at one meeting, therefore we will be organising a series of future
meetings to keep the Irish community informed, as well as publishing
our plans in the local media. We have gone a long way to enlighten
people but there are lessons to be learned from the evening. Hence
more meet-ings planned for the general public to voice their opinions”.
The Birmingham Irish Forum would like to express their thanks to everyone
who attended. |
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Regular
Transport Needed
Knock and surrounding town in the west of Ireland need regular
transport if they are to tap into the short-break market according
to tourism Officals. In a bid to promote the region, Ireland-west
tourism has asked chambers of commerce in the area to provide
financial support for establishment of a daily bus connection
to Place’s such as Westport, Castlebar and Galway. |
Probe
Into Bridge Tragedy
A firm of bridge consultants are to investigate the circumstances
surr-ounding the death of a lorry driver who died when his lorry
was blown off the Foyle Bridge in Derry on Tuesday 11th January;
the victim was Peter McGuinness (34) from Aghgallon near Lurgan
Co. Armagh, the violent winds were blowing at 75 mph. |
Heroin Plague Hits Irelands
Midlands
The midlands of Ireland had seen a dramatic rise in the use
of heroin amongst drug addicts. Towns like Athlone and Portlaoise
have real heroin problems. The midland health board, as part
of a review of the national drug’s strategy, is expected
to publish a report by the end of January. It will be expected
to disclose shocking information and will claim that girls as
young as i5 are using heroin and some women are turning to prostitution
to feed these habits. |
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