Dublin City Council

Sinn Fein motion to ask that fluoride removed from Ireland’s water supply upheld at council

Mick Fealty on October 7, 2014, 4:10 pm

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Via Broadsheet.ie. I’ve no strong opinion on this one way or the other, except to say that the scientific evidence that fluoride is harmful may be, erm, incomplete. Oh, and Dublin has no more power to deliver this than Glasgow have getting rid of nuclear power in the 80s. At high levels (and there are parts of the world where it naturally occurs in dangerously high levels) it can cause dental and skeletal fluorosis. The question only arises from the …

Fine Gael are the first to walk out of all party talks in Dublin…

Mick Fealty on June 6, 2014, 1:51 pm

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Interesting developments in Dublin City Council where Sinn Fein is now the largest single party by some way, and worth keeping an eye on. They are already falling out over the setting of budgets (which SF has never had to do all on its own before, so this is new territory for them)… Although it is expected that independent councillor Christy Burke will be elected Lord Mayor this evening, there is now no agreement on passing budgets and appointments for …