Month: February 2017

It was about tea-time on December 12^th 1942, just outside Cork Harbour. It was during the war so there was a black out and the entire harbour was in complete darkness, you couldn’t see anything. All that could be heard was the hum of the diesel engines, the roar of the sea and the noise of the wind.

There was a southerly gale howling, it was cold and the sea was rough with a flood tide and waves of up to twenty-five feet in height.
World War II was raging but Ireland was a neutral country so any ship entering Irish ports had to engage a Cork Harbour Pilot and have their papers inspected by the Port Control Authorities, a form of homeland security, to ensure that no ammunition or weapons were on board.
The Irish Poplar was approaching Cork Harbour. It was a vessel that weighed 3,282 tons and stretched 352 feet long. It was built in 1912 and bought from Greek owners.

She had sailed from Dublin without cargo and was riding high with the top of her rudder and propeller visible above the water level. She was ordered by Cork Harbour pilots to proceed to the Dognose Buoy and to wait there to pick up a pilot and a Port Control officer.

She waited there as instructed and she would then be brought to Verolme Cork Dockyard where she was going to have a refit.
At about 6pm, the Pilot boat left the Camber in Cobh to bring the pilot to the ship while around the same time the Port Control boat left Haulbowline to meet the same incoming vessel.
The pilot launch was first alongside, and the pilot, Pad Lynch, climbed the Jacob’s ladder to the deck of the Irish Poplar. Next came the Port Control boat, which went alongside the pilot boat, and Chief Petty Officer Frank Barry safely boarded to carry out his inspection.
The normal procedure at this point would be for the Pilot launch to return to base in the Camber in Cobh and the pilot would stay with the ship.

The Port Control launch on the other hand would stand by until the inspection was completed and would then be signalled to collect the Port Control Officer and return to base. If conditions weren’t favourable, the normal routine would be for the Port Control launch to wait a short distance away from the ship.
When CPO Barry finished his inspection he looked over the side of the Poplar and when he didn’t see his launch he signalled with a lamp. When he got no reply he still wasn’t too concerned because of the bad weather he assumed that maybe it had returned to Cobh along with the Pilot launch for safety reasons.

The Irish Poplar signalled the Department of Defence in Spike Island and they sent out another launch to collect the Port Control Officer. At this stage the Irish Poplar had started its journey and was almost at the Spit Lighthouse in the inner harbour on its way to the dockyard.
Unknown to any of them at the time, there were five men dead in the water. There had been a serious incident. After depositing the two men onto the Irish Poplar, the two launches had difficulty getting away from the bigger ship.

They tried to go forward, but the weather was too severe so they went astern. With the bad weather, the blackness and the rough sea they somehow ended up under the turning propellers of the Irish Poplar with catastrophic consequences.
It was around this time that a man opened the front door of his house on Spike Island to find an exhausted and drenched figure with no shoes on, lying on the ground in the storm.

It was James Horgan who had been on the Pilot launch and he swam almost two miles from the Dognose Buoy to Spike Island. He was in the water for at least an hour and a quarter and he raised the alarm. The strength and the courage he displayed to make that swim in those conditions without a life jacket was amazing.
James Horgan was taken to the hospital on Spike Island and while he was able to provide little detailed information on what had happened, it was enough to start a large scale search.

Nothing was found at the scene of the accident. At about 10pm a body was seen in the water near the Deepwater Quay in Cobh about three and a half miles from the Dognose Buoy. It turned out to be the body of Leading Seaman William Duggan.
Around midnight some of the debris of the Pilot launch was found in the Camber and elsewhere along the waterfront. Two caps were found that were belong to Frank Lloyd and Frank Powell. One piece of timber that was found was identified as part of the Pilot launch and it looked as if it had been sliced by something sharp.
At a subsequent inquiry into the accident, Lieutenant W. Richardson and Lieutenant James White, of the Marine Service Depot in Haulbowline, gave evidence of having examined the wreckage of both the Pilot launch and the Port Control launch.

They found that the damage to both vessels was consistent with them having been struck by the propeller of the Irish Poplar.
To give an indication of the type of weather conditions that prevailed that night, the Ballycotton Lifeboat was called out to help with the search and it took them four hours to get to the site of the accident compared to the normal journey time of an hour and a half.

Coxwain Sliney testified that it was one of the worst nights of bad weather he had ever experienced.
On that day, the town of Cobh lost five of its citizens; John Higgins of Connelly Street, Francis Lloyd of King’s Street, Willie Duggan of Bellview, Frank Powell of Plunket Terrace, and Patrick Wilshaw of The Mall.

They were all young men. The oldest was only forty five years old and the youngest was a mere 25 years of age. Four of the five were members of the Cork Port Control Service which was a branch of the Marine Service. The fifth man, John Higgins, was a member of what was then known as the Cork Harbour Pilotage.
The fickle finger of faith smiled on one man that night. George Agger Senior was a Chief Petty Officer in the Marine Service during World War II and should have been on duty on that occasion.

It is possible that he would have been one of those who perished but as it happened he had another event to attend that night. His son was being born at home and so he arranged to swap duties, a decision that probably saved his life.

George junior was born at 11 Roches Row, just three doors away from where Pilot Pad Lynch and his family lived.
That baby turned out to be Father George Agger SVD, who was born and raised in Cobh until he entered the priesthood and left for foreign shores. He celebrated his 70th birthday when he officiated at a small ceremony in Cork Harbour to commemorate the 70^th anniversary of this tragic event in 2012.

I’ve had a reply from Mr. Páraig Lynch, Municipal District Officer, Cobh Municipal District. I have summarised it as follows:

He confirmed that the matter of dog fouling was raised at the monthly meeting of the Cobh Municipal District which was held on February, 21st. and was also raised at the Council’s quarterly meeting with representatives of Cobh Tidy Towns Committee.

It was acknowledged by all at the meeting that Council and the Tidy Towns Committee are operating a partnership approach but more needs to be done. They are involved in a number of initiatives including the distribution of “doggie bags” and The Green Dog Walker Scheme.

They are examining possibility of visiting schools and the possibility of a leaflet campaign for licensed dog owners. Only 2 litter fines have issued in the town of Cobh in recent years in relation to dog fouling.

Legislation in this area is complicated and County Council does not have the resources to have staff at every location across the Municipal District.

They are looking at a number of suggestions including the possibility of installing CCTV in problem areas and they are going to consult with colleagues in other parts of the County to see how they address this issue issues.  

They have suggested that the wider community can also play a role. Many businesses in the town of Cobh have CCTV and may be able to help the Council in enforcing the legislation.

Any member of the public who witnesses dog fouling can make a statement to the Council and they will work with any individual ensure that litter fines are issued and prosecuted if not paid. –

I think that some progress has been made but there is more to be done. Keep an eye out for the minutes of the meeting that will appear online soon. 

Anthony Barry and Ger Keohane have not replied to any of my emails – curious to know if anyone has heard from either of those.

When Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble wanted to know what was going on in the world they had to go the nearest news cave and buy a news tablet. The news of the day would have been carved onto the stone with a hammer and chisel by the local stone- age reporter. The hammer and chisel method was pretty slow so I imagine the news was more like Twitter than a broadsheet. Thankfully we have moved on from that.

I was doing a little bit of research in the Cork County Library recently and I was looking for information about an incident that occurred in Cork Harbour on December 12^th in 1942. That incident became known as The Cork Harbour Disaster and there will be more about that in a few weeks. I searched the Cork Examiner of that date for a report on the incident and I was surprised to see that the front page of the paper was taken up with small advertisements. The page was completely covered with them. I thought it was amazing that that page, now reserved for the main stories of the day, was once the advertising page.

The other thing that surprised me was how the various articles were presented. Each story was written in long single columns of text without photographs and it all looked cluttered. The language that was used was very formal and serious.

For instance, a man left in a taxi became; “The man was conducted, with his sister, to a waiting taxi.” When a body was found, an attempt to resuscitate him was described as “Artificial respiration was applied but life was found to be extinct.”  When the alarm was raised at Spike Island about an incident in the harbour it was reported that; “News of the disaster was communicated to the mainland and an immediate search instituted.” They were different times and the news then was a serious business.

Printing was complicated back then too and it’s no surprise that it would take the best part of a day to put the type together for a single page and it would take an entire week to put a paper together. The guy who prepared the print was a compositor and he used a metal frame, divided into compartments which mapped how the page was to be laid out. He put the various letters, the full stops and numbers, one by one into these compartments.  When this was done the frame was carried to the pressmen. They made one copy as a proof which was then given to the editor. When he was finished, the frame was carried back to the compositor to make any corrections and then it was carried back to the pressmen, who began printing. It was a long, labour intensive process.

I also discovered that in the early part of the 18th century there was a close connection between the printing office and the coffee house and many printers had their premises next door or in the same building as a coffee house. In some Irish towns, they were the gathering places for those in search of the latest news. Now I’m not sure if there is a connection or not but coffee shops are very common in Cyprus and you will find several in every village. These are places where men congregate from early morning to drink coffee on a veranda, play board games and swap gossip.

Whatever about the coffee shops, printing has moved on a lot from those early days. Now you type a page on a laptop, use the spell check, make the corrections and hit the print button. Hey presto, you can have as many copies as you want in an instant. But something else has changed too and that involves the way we gather our news.

There was a time when you had to wait for news. A reporter would carry out his investigation, talk to his sources and check his facts and it would appear in your newspaper a few days after that. Nowadays, news is instant. Modern technology means that we get our news as it happens from all over the world.

On the face of it that sounds like a progressive step but it does have a weakness. Unlike professional reporters who have to follow certain rules to verify the accuracy of the content of an article, anybody with a smartphone can now report the news. Or they can make up fake news and present it as fact without the normal checks and balances and that can be dangerous. Especially when you consider that most young people have little or no interest in the print media and prefer instead to gather the news from their phones. So, in many cases, they could be forming opinions based on misinformation.

Sure, you can read most of the online news for free on a smart phone that fits in your pocket and you can get quick updates anytime you want. Young people will tell you that they don’t see the point in buying a newspaper when they they can get all they need online for free. As well as that they lack the attention span required to sit down and read a broadsheet and for them it’s too time consuming.  

It takes a lot of effort and expense to gather news and to produce a paper. Professionals are employed to produce interesting, current and accurate content to provide a product that consumers will be willing to pay for. That is the constant struggle of the newspaper industry. For those who like to read a broadsheet, there is nothing nicer than sitting down with a coffee and opening a fresh newspaper. Maybe the Internet brigade should slow down a bit and sample the experience for themselves.

 

 

 

 

Sherna Noah had a story in the Irish Examiner about Adam Clayton of U2 fame who has a piece of art in his home that is expected to bring in €1.8 million at auction. It is a self- portrait of the artist Jean Michel Basquiat and one of its distinguishing features is a tear drop falling from the artist’s eye.

Experts have said that painting features his arms appearing “to pierce his body like an arrow”.

Another expert at Christie’s said: “Unlike other self-portraits by Basquiat, it articulates his fragility as a figure who is coming to terms with his new position in the world and injects the deepest pathos into the narrative of his dramatic trajectory from anonymous graffiti artist to international art superstar.”

What is this guy smoking? Parents all over the country are chucking scribbles like this into the recycling every night after their kids go to bed. They might spend some time clinging to the side of the fridge with the help of a magnet but eventually they are consigned to the bin.

‘The tear drop falling from the artist’s eye’ actually looks like the eye is after popping out but is held up by a spring. His head looks like it started out as a mug but then changed its mind but kept the handle.

The expert talks about his arms appearing “to pierce his body like an arrow”. What a knob – that’s the way kids draw arms and legs.

This is complete and total nonsense. Anybody who claims that this doodle is a fine piece of art worthy of a €1.8 million price tag has lost their grip on reality. Someone needs to start calling a spade a spade in the art world.

If this is a self- portrait then he obviously had a strange opinion of himself.

I have not received any communication from Mr. Lynch but he has apparently replied to some others. Based on what I have seen, I make the following observations.

Mr. Lynch states that the Cork County Council is aware of the issue of dog fouling. That’s not surprising since the local councilors have stated that they have been raising the subject for years.  He also says that they are trying to deal with it but he doesn’t explain what those attempts entail. Apart from providing ‘doggie bags’, I haven’t seen evidence of any efforts.

He further states that “we have not had much success in relation to fining those dog owners who refuse to clean up after their pets – it is not possible for the Council’s Warden to issue a litter fine for this unless they can be satisfied that they can positively identify the owner of the dog.”

Again, he doesn’t explain what efforts they have made to find the dogs or their owners but I would argue that if there was a willingness to tackle this issue then it would be possible to identify some of these dog owners. Dogs are roaming the town freely without being on a lead and many of them seem to have collars. There is not too much investigative expertise required to locate these owners.

He says that “This is not just an issue in Cobh – I am aware from talking to my colleagues in the Environment Department of the County Council that this is an issue across the entire county and beyond.” He is absolutely right. In the UK, they reckon that there are between 6 and 7 million dogs producing about 1,000 tonnes of crap every day. But I’m only interested in Cobh and I think it is possible to improve the situation here. Mr. Lynch has confirmed that there is no Litter Management Plan. But he hopes “that the County Council will be in a position over the next few months to prepare a new Plan which would set out our intentions in relation to litter control generally as well as the specific issue of dog fouling”.

That means that we could be at the end of another tourist season before we even see sight of a plan. Without a plan, there will be no action so we can anticipate another build-up of dog crap this summer.

He is right when he says that dog owners should take responsibility for the actions of their own pets. In an ideal world, they would, and every driver would be insured, nobody would park on double yellow lines and there would be no such thing as shoplifting.

But we don’t live in an ideal world and until we do, we need the Council to do its’ job.

 

Hi,

It seems that there have been no fines for dog fouling issued in Cobh for the last two years yet the amount of dog fouling around the town is unacceptable. It is unsightly and it poses a health risk. The local authority has obligations under the ‘Litter Pollution Act 1997’ and the ‘Control of Dogs Act, 1986.’

Litter Pollution Act 1997

‘Each local authority must prepare a litter management plan for its area, setting out its objectives to prevent and control litter, along with measures to encourage public awareness of litter. The plan must also set out measures and arrangements by which the local authority intends to achieve these objectives. In preparing its litter management plan, the authority must consult with local community and voluntary interests.’

‘Under Section 22 of the Litter Pollution Act 1997 it is an offence to allow a dog under your control to foul a public place. This means the owner or person in charge of the dog is required to remove dog faeces and dispose of them in a suitable, sanitary manner.’

Control of Dogs Act, 1986

‘Under the Control of Dogs Act 1986, as amended by the Control of Dogs (Amendment) Act 1992, local authorities are responsible for the control of dogs. They have the power to appoint dog wardens, provide dog shelters, seize dogs, impose on-the-spot fines and take court proceedings against owners.’

It is not good enough for the council to throw its collective hands in the air and say that it’s too difficult. There is an obligation on the local authority to deal with these issues.

I would like to know:

How does the local authority intend to tackle this issue?

Is there a litter management plan for Cobh and if there is, where can it be viewed?

When I was a youngster, driving my first car, I was paying through the nose for insurance and I was told that there were all kinds of reasons for this. They said that young people were more likely to be involved in accidents so there was a loading for that. They said youngsters were more likely to speed and drive carelessly so that was taken into account as well.  They told me that I shouldn’t worry though because it would get a lot better for me when I reached twenty-one years of age.

But when I hit twenty-one I was told that my situation would improve when I reached the age of twenty-five. On and on it went and now, as I approach sixty, I find that I am still suffering.

It would appear that I am being penalised for the sins of others. I have had a clean drivers licence for the last forty years, I have never had an accident or a claim and I don’t have any penalty points. I’m retired so I only clock up about ten thousand kilometres a year, I live in the countryside and my car is parked in a driveway every night. I would have thought that I would be a dream customer for any insurance company but it seems as if I have been diagnosed with the plague. Nobody wants to touch me.

For the last number of years, I have been paying about €300 for my insurance. It varied a bit from year to year but it was always in or around that price. Last year there was a significant jump when I was quoted a figure of €590. I thought that this was a bit excessive but the nice lady informed me that all the premiums had increased thanks to the Government levy.

When I suggested that I was going to shop around and try elsewhere there was a bit of a rethink and the price reduced to €460. I did check around but that was still the best I could come up with so I went with it albeit with a bit of a grievance.

This year, I discovered that the premium had risen to €620. I immediately went online and did some shopping around and I was quoted prices from €585 to €800 with the average being about €700. I contacted my current insurer and I asked the lady to clarify what I had done to upset them so much. She told me that basically they were spending a fortune on claims and every customer was going to be paying about €80 on their policy until the books were balanced. My premium had gone up by €160 so presumably I was chipping in for some other poor sod as well.

So if this is happening to the likes of me, then how are younger people going to manage especially if they have penalty points or an older car? There must be individuals out there who just can’t afford to put their car on the road. Motor insurance premiums have risen by almost 40% in the last year according to the Central Statistics Office and one third of drivers have seen their insurance rise by up to 50% and it is particularly impacting on younger drivers. Young men in their early 20s are being asked to pay anything between €6,000 and €14,000 a year.

In its defence, the industry has said higher claim payouts necessitated premium hikes. Michael Horan of Insurance Ireland said that while overall claims costs have been dropping, the premium incomes of companies have also been in decline.  Insurers claim that they are losing money due to higher levels of road fatalities, increased accidents and more personal injury claims. Legal costs and massive awards made in the courts are adding to the costs.

So, it seems that everyone is blaming someone else for the high cost of insurance and these arguments prove that people can produce figures to support all sides. But the reality is that we’re paying more money for insurance and the figures in our bank statements will support that.

Uninsured drivers are also driving up the cost of motoring for the rest of us. The Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland has reported that there has been an 85 per cent increase in the number uninsured drivers over past five years so there could be as many as 150,000 uninsured drivers on our roads currently. The increase in insurance costs could certainly be a factor in this rise and while there is a legal obligation on every driver to be insured, it’s obvious that not everybody takes that obligation seriously.

Insurance is there to provide protection for us all in the event of an accident but despite the penalties applied to uninsured drivers, there are still many who think it is worth taking a chance on driving without it. Or maybe they feel they have no choice when they can’t afford the premium and public transport is not an option for them.

The insurance industry has been coming under pressure to provide a data base of all insured drivers to the gardaí who could then use hand held devices to check if a car was insured or not. It makes sense at this stage that insurance companies should be talking to each other and to the gardai to tackle this issue.

On a positive note, the Government is determined to drive down the cost of insurance. Just like they are going to fix the hospital crisis and the plight of the homeless. That worries me because by the time they resolve this, I might be able to afford to insure my car but I will  probably be in a home for the bewildered struggling to remember my name.

A week ago, I put up a post about dog fouling in Cobh. The public walkways, from one end of the town to the other, are littered with dog crap. It’s unsightly, it’s unhealthy and it’s unfair to those of us who don’t have dogs. It’s also unfair to those responsible dog owners who clean up after their pets.

I sent an email to each of our local representatives to ask how many fines for dog fouling have been issued in Cobh in the last two years? I also sent an email to Paraig Lynch as I was advised to do, to have the matter raised at the next municipal meeting.

Kieran McCarthy replied to my email with half an hour and he thought that two or three fines may have been issued. He said he has been raising this issue as a councillor for 23 years.

Cathal Rasmussen replied within a few hours and he can’t recall any fines being issued but he is pushing to have the Traffic Warden more involved in the enforcement.

Padraig O’Sullivan replied the following day and he thought that prosecutions were poor if not nil in certain areas and enforcement is virtually impossible.

There was no reply from; Ger Keohane, Anthony Barry, Sinead Sheppard or Paraic Lynch Obviously, there was a decision made at some point to place dog fouling signs around the town. Maybe this was done as a token gesture to appease the natives or maybe there was an intention to deal with the issue.

Whatever the intention was, the fact of the matter is that the town is full of dog crap and nobody seems to be responsible for dealing with the issue. Erecting these signs would seem to have been a complete waste of public money. Mr. Lynch and his colleagues in Carraig House seem to have a difficulty replying to phone calls, emails and letters.

That doesn’t surprise me but I’ll keep trying.

 

The Irish Examiner carried a story by Jimmy Wolfe recently about a man who died after coming home to find intruders in his house. John O’Donoghue, 62 years of age, had left his home in the country with his sister to do some shopping. When they returned home they saw a car parked across the road and their gate was open. When they got to the side door they realised something was wrong and they suspected that someone had broken into the house. Mr. O’Donoghue collapsed on the ground while his sister called out for help. He subsequently died of a suspected heart attack.

David Casey from Coolock in Dublin and Michael Casey from Clonlong Halting Site in Limerick pleaded guilty to committing the burglary in 2015 while the third guy who was driving the car doesn’t get a mention. Apparently they had also carried out other burglaries in the area prior to going to Mr. O’Donoghue’s house. When his sister called for help the Caseys climbed out the window and ran through the fields with the stolen property while their victim lay dying on the ground.

This wasn’t their first crime. Their modus operandi was to drive around rural areas looking for isolated older houses that would have little or no security. One of them would stay outside the property and act as a lookout while the others would go inside. David Casey, who is still only 21 years of age, was out on bail at the time of this crime so he is already well experienced. The criminal cousins had 60 previous convictions between them and they both pleaded guilty to three counts of burglary and one count of criminal damage. All four offences happened in the Doon/Cappamore area on the same afternoon.

At Limerick Circuit Court, Judge Tom O’Donnell sentenced both defendants to four years and six months in jail with the final 12 months suspended. He said: “The court is deeply conscious of the loss suffered by John O’Donoghue’s family. The sentence will not change the fact Mr O’Donoghue is no longer with us and it will not alleviate his families pain. The court must deal with the burglary charges and those alone.”

It is very difficult to imagine in the normal course of events what it feels like to be a victim of a burglary. The invasion of privacy and the violation of your personal space is something that victims find difficult to cope with. The fact that someone was in your house searching through your personal items must be hard to stomach, not to mention the sense of loss over whatever was stolen.

These guys, and all the other like- minded criminals, make a conscious decision to live their lives outside the normal boundaries of law and order. They do what they like regardless of the negative impact those actions may have on other law abiding members of society. They have no respect and no regard for anyone apart from themselves and they feel entitled to rob and plunder. They rarely work, they live off the State where possible and supplement their income by stealing from others.

The Caseys’ have admitted their part in this crime in which a harmless, defenceless man died. The chances are that this man would be alive today if these scumbags had left him alone. These criminals are the reason that so many elderly people are living in fear every day in this country. They both have written letters expressing their remorse for their actions and they are both making efforts to rehabilitate themselves in prison. Well, that makes it alright then.

In a separate story, Sean Gaffney, a 25 year old from Waterford, broke into a house with another man on Christmas Eve 2014 and subjected a 97 year-old woman to a “horrendous experience”.  Gaffney and another man smashed the double glazed window at the rear of the house. They dragged the elderly woman out of bed and threw her on the living room floor which was littered with broken glass. They searched the house and made off with expensive jewellery. The terrified woman locked herself in the bathroom until the men left the house and then she raised the alarm.

DNA evidence and finger prints led the Gardaí to Gaffney who accepted that he was in the house but didn’t name the man who was with him because he couldn’t remember who it was. The victim saw the men taking her jewellery. Gaffney said he was drunk and had been drinking all day and admitted doing wrong but said he never touched the old lady.

Ms Elaine Morgan, defending Gaffney, said her client admitted being in the house and his conduct was shameful and he was ashamed of himself. When he was questioned by the Gardaí he co-operated fully and was open and honest.

Gaffney has received a 230 hour community service sentence in lieu of a two year prison term and he got a twelve month suspended sentence for the criminal damage charge. The judge took into account a favourable probation report and the fact that Gaffney wasn’t directly involved in the assault and that he cooperated with the gardai.

That’s ok then. This tramp broke into the home of a 97 year old woman, damaged her property, terrorised her, stole her jewellery and left her needing round-the-clock care but he’s not a bad fella really.

The feelings of remorse that are regularly expressed by habitual criminals and the stories of their attempts at rehabilitation should be treated with the same credibility as the tales written by Hans Christian Anderson. Yet, they regularly taken into consideration by the judges. Maybe in this era of accountability there is a case to be made for requiring judges to justify some of their decisions.

 

 

 

These signs are visible around the town of Cobh, they are self explanatory. If you don’t clean up after your dog, you face a fine of up to a maximum of €3000. That’s clear enough.

The public walkways, from one end of the town to the other, are littered with dog crap. It’s unsightly, it’s unhealthy and it’s unfair to those of us who don’t have dogs. It’s also unfair to those responsible dog owners who clean up after their pets.

There is a group of dog owners who couldn’t care less about the rules and they are quite happy to let their dogs run freely around the town. They have no interest in public decency and no regard for the people who have to clean up their mess.

Neither do they have any fear of being fined and maybe there is a good reason for that. I have a question our local representatives:

O’SULLIVAN, Padraig
RASMUSSEN, Cathal
McCARTHY, Kieran
KEOHANE, Ger
BARRY, Anthony
SHEPPARD, Sinead

How many fines for dog fouling in Cobh have been issued in the last two years?

I suspect I already know the answer to this but I’m going to ask it anyway. I have more follow up questions, but let’s get an answer to this one first.