Things that make you go .....Hmmm, that's interesting.

[Armagh18]

Apparently Banty's name is completely blackened around Blayney and Carrick. He's the town overrun with immigrants while lining his own pockets.

[Milltown Row2]

If it wasn't Banty it be someone else...

It's not banty that's bringing in immigrants, it's happening because the government have policies that allow it and don't stick to enforcement they could use, you've European law, which Ireland is part of to adhere to also

But this Irish government gets a free go at it every year, and voted in by those possibly complaining

[rodney trotter]

Apparently Banty's name is completely blackened around Blayney and Carrick. He's the town overrun with immigrants while lining his own pockets.

He has links to property all over the country. Bundoran is being overrun too.

Banty had Rory Gallagher working with corduff while under investigation. He doesn't care about public view.

[Rossfan]

Overrun?

[LC]

Wife of Armagh GAA legend a director of company that owns Belfast 'asbestos bonfire' site

Plans to remove the hazardous material were scuppered after area couldn't be secured

The wife of Armagh All-Ireland winning captain and manager Kieran McGeeney is linked to the company that owns the land in Belfast where a controversial loyalist bonfire was built.
The pyre in the Village area was lit on the Eleventh Night despite plans by Belfast City Council to remove it due to asbestos on the derelict site and its proximity to an electricity substation that serves two hospitals.

Boron Developments Ltd has an office registered in Armagh.

According to Companies House, the directors include Maura McGeeney and former Kildare GAA player Patrick Mangan.

Mr McGeeney (53), a three-time All-Star, managed Kildare between 2007 and 2013. At the time Mr Mangan was chair of the county's fundraising arm, Club Kildare.

Land registry documents obtained by the Belfast Telegraph show Boron Developments has been the registered owner of the site close to the Westlink since 2018.

The landowners and Armagh GAA were contacted for comment.

It is understood Boron Developments was made aware there was asbestos on the site when it bought it, and it did not give permission for the bonfire to take place on its property.

There is no suggestion of wrong-doing by any of the directors.

It has been reported that Boron Developments engaged with a waste management company to remove the asbestos, but it couldn't complete its work due to people "bringing in materials and building the bonfire".

It is understood the site owners had scheduled the removal of the asbestos to begin on July 16. However, the area couldn't be secured.

Concerns were raised by Environment Minister Andrew Muir, other politicians and statutory bodies about the risks the bonfire presented to the public and to the power supply for the Royal Victoria and Belfast City Hospitals.

Despite the warnings, many people attended on the Eleventh Night.

Councillors had agreed by a majority vote days before the pyre was lit to have it removed.

However, within hours of the news breaking a crowd gathered at the site and entrances were blocked.

Police then announced they would not assist in the removal of the bonfire.

The PSNI said the decision followed a meeting of stakeholders and involved "carefully balancing potentially competing statutory and human rights obligations".

It added: "During this multi-agency meeting all partners considered the environmental risks associated with the asbestos on the site, the risks related to the electricity substation, as well as the risks to public safety on a site occupied by members of the public, including children.

"The consensus of the meeting was that the risk of the bonfire proceeding as planned was lower and more manageable than the intervention of contractors and the proposed methodology of dismantling the bonfire."

Meanwhile, loyalist activist Jamie Bryson has criticised coverage of the saga, refuting any assertion "bonfire builders in the Village area had 'poisoned' kids".

In a letter in today's Belfast Telegraph, he adds: "A decent, tight-knit community in the Village were used as a political football and held up for public ridicule by the media and 'commentariat', based largely upon not only deliberate misunderstandings of and/or unwillingness to even try to understand the factual situation around that bonfire itself, but also more generally the loyalist community and our cultural traditions per se."

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

Wife of Armagh GAA legend a director of company that owns Belfast 'asbestos bonfire' site

Plans to remove the hazardous material were scuppered after area couldn't be secured

The wife of Armagh All-Ireland winning captain and manager Kieran McGeeney is linked to the company that owns the land in Belfast where a controversial loyalist bonfire was built.
The pyre in the Village area was lit on the Eleventh Night despite plans by Belfast City Council to remove it due to asbestos on the derelict site and its proximity to an electricity substation that serves two hospitals.

Boron Developments Ltd has an office registered in Armagh.

According to Companies House, the directors include Maura McGeeney and former Kildare GAA player Patrick Mangan.

Mr McGeeney (53), a three-time All-Star, managed Kildare between 2007 and 2013. At the time Mr Mangan was chair of the county's fundraising arm, Club Kildare.

Land registry documents obtained by the Belfast Telegraph show Boron Developments has been the registered owner of the site close to the Westlink since 2018.

The landowners and Armagh GAA were contacted for comment.

It is understood Boron Developments was made aware there was asbestos on the site when it bought it, and it did not give permission for the bonfire to take place on its property.

There is no suggestion of wrong-doing by any of the directors.

It has been reported that Boron Developments engaged with a waste management company to remove the asbestos, but it couldn't complete its work due to people "bringing in materials and building the bonfire".

It is understood the site owners had scheduled the removal of the asbestos to begin on July 16. However, the area couldn't be secured.

Concerns were raised by Environment Minister Andrew Muir, other politicians and statutory bodies about the risks the bonfire presented to the public and to the power supply for the Royal Victoria and Belfast City Hospitals.

Despite the warnings, many people attended on the Eleventh Night.

Councillors had agreed by a majority vote days before the pyre was lit to have it removed.

However, within hours of the news breaking a crowd gathered at the site and entrances were blocked.

Police then announced they would not assist in the removal of the bonfire.

The PSNI said the decision followed a meeting of stakeholders and involved "carefully balancing potentially competing statutory and human rights obligations".

It added: "During this multi-agency meeting all partners considered the environmental risks associated with the asbestos on the site, the risks related to the electricity substation, as well as the risks to public safety on a site occupied by members of the public, including children.

"The consensus of the meeting was that the risk of the bonfire proceeding as planned was lower and more manageable than the intervention of contractors and the proposed methodology of dismantling the bonfire."

Meanwhile, loyalist activist Jamie Bryson has criticised coverage of the saga, refuting any assertion "bonfire builders in the Village area had 'poisoned' kids".

In a letter in today's Belfast Telegraph, he adds: "A decent, tight-knit community in the Village were used as a political football and held up for public ridicule by the media and 'commentariat', based largely upon not only deliberate misunderstandings of and/or unwillingness to even try to understand the factual situation around that bonfire itself, but also more generally the loyalist community and our cultural traditions per se."

Houl on......

[DaleCooper]

Breaking News "Orange men own bonfire land"

[Wildweasel74]

Why would anybody buy a site with asbestos on it.

[DaleCooper]

Its not nuclear waste, even the dangers of that are much exaggerated

[Wildweasel74]

I dealt with asbestos all the time, the expense to clear contaminated land is through the roof!

[DaleCooper]

Yes Ive done it myself helping a buddy who does demo. Some lady kept coming back with a clipboard whilst we lifted tiny microscopic lumps from gravel ground. Its very dangerous when fibres are airborne and inhaled of course.

The amount of money grafted by asbestos removal guys in big government jobs would be significant.

[brokencrossbar1]

As kids we played all the time in outhouse with asbestos roofing,  there are very dangerous associations with it but the level of exposure needs to be significant and sustained. There is some grifting around it.

[Sportacus]

Eel fishing on Lough Neagh suspended for the rest of the summer. Terrible.  Declan Kearney calling for financial support for the fishermen - you have to laugh, Sinn Fein won't support proposals to reduce the pollution, just pay out hand over fist for the consequences.  Amateurs.

[DaleCooper]

Im sure they'll blame themmuns

[LC]

Wife of Armagh GAA legend a director of company that owns Belfast 'asbestos bonfire' site

Plans to remove the hazardous material were scuppered after area couldn't be secured

The wife of Armagh All-Ireland winning captain and manager Kieran McGeeney is linked to the company that owns the land in Belfast where a controversial loyalist bonfire was built.
The pyre in the Village area was lit on the Eleventh Night despite plans by Belfast City Council to remove it due to asbestos on the derelict site and its proximity to an electricity substation that serves two hospitals.

Boron Developments Ltd has an office registered in Armagh.

According to Companies House, the directors include Maura McGeeney and former Kildare GAA player Patrick Mangan.

Mr McGeeney (53), a three-time All-Star, managed Kildare between 2007 and 2013. At the time Mr Mangan was chair of the county's fundraising arm, Club Kildare.

Land registry documents obtained by the Belfast Telegraph show Boron Developments has been the registered owner of the site close to the Westlink since 2018.

The landowners and Armagh GAA were contacted for comment.

It is understood Boron Developments was made aware there was asbestos on the site when it bought it, and it did not give permission for the bonfire to take place on its property.

There is no suggestion of wrong-doing by any of the directors.

It has been reported that Boron Developments engaged with a waste management company to remove the asbestos, but it couldn't complete its work due to people "bringing in materials and building the bonfire".

It is understood the site owners had scheduled the removal of the asbestos to begin on July 16. However, the area couldn't be secured.

Concerns were raised by Environment Minister Andrew Muir, other politicians and statutory bodies about the risks the bonfire presented to the public and to the power supply for the Royal Victoria and Belfast City Hospitals.

Despite the warnings, many people attended on the Eleventh Night.

Councillors had agreed by a majority vote days before the pyre was lit to have it removed.

However, within hours of the news breaking a crowd gathered at the site and entrances were blocked.

Police then announced they would not assist in the removal of the bonfire.

The PSNI said the decision followed a meeting of stakeholders and involved "carefully balancing potentially competing statutory and human rights obligations".

It added: "During this multi-agency meeting all partners considered the environmental risks associated with the asbestos on the site, the risks related to the electricity substation, as well as the risks to public safety on a site occupied by members of the public, including children.

"The consensus of the meeting was that the risk of the bonfire proceeding as planned was lower and more manageable than the intervention of contractors and the proposed methodology of dismantling the bonfire."

Meanwhile, loyalist activist Jamie Bryson has criticised coverage of the saga, refuting any assertion "bonfire builders in the Village area had 'poisoned' kids".

In a letter in today's Belfast Telegraph, he adds: "A decent, tight-knit community in the Village were used as a political football and held up for public ridicule by the media and 'commentariat', based largely upon not only deliberate misunderstandings of and/or unwillingness to even try to understand the factual situation around that bonfire itself, but also more generally the loyalist community and our cultural traditions per se."

Houl on......

The owners have now hit the jackpot.

As they had 'supposedly' made arrangements to plan to remove the asbestos on 16/07 they (their legal team) will argue that this is now not possible as the site is even more contaminated due to bonfire waste arising from the actions of trespassers which the security services / council / Stormont did nothing to prevent even though it was all in the public domain.

The taxpayer will no doubt end up picking up the tab to fully clear the site therefore owners laughing all the way to the bank having dodged this very costly expense.