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Irish turf cutters don’t give a sod for EU bog ruling
Posted by Guardian: Henry McDonald on June 20th, 2011
Guardian: Down in the bog, amid a field of black strips of turf stacked like Jenga sticks, Michael Fitzmaurice looks up defiantly at the plane snooping on his industry.
The aircraft is on the lookout for anyone still cutting, piling or collecting turf – an endeavour that the EU deems illegal.
"It's some crack that we have a country in recession and virtually bankrupt but the authorities can afford to put a plane in the sky to spy on turf cutters," he says breaking apart a piece of the black, natural...
Northern Ireland water crisis was a disaster waiting to happen, says ex-boss
Posted by Guardian: Henry McDonald on January 1st, 2011
Guardian: A former chairman of Northern Ireland Water has blamed politicians and the state-run utility company's current management for the country's water crisis.
Chris Mellor, who was sacked in March, said the chaos was due to the appointment of people with no experience of the water industry, and described it as a "disaster waiting to happen".
"I think this is what happens when you get rid of the directors at the top of NIW, who knew what they were doing, and replace them with people who have no experience...
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