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Kingsfurze playground 'could be refurbished' - inspector NAAS, 16 July 1999: by Brian Byrne.A safety consultant’s report on the recently-dismantled Kingsfurze swings and climbing frames shows that only the slide was worth keeping as the other facilities would cost as much to refurbish as buy new, and ‘still would not be within the recommended standards’. The slide is in good condition, and the inspector noted that while its steps do not meet the dimensional requirements of the safety standard ISEN I 176, ‘this is considered to be a low risk’. “The main area of risk associated with the slide comes from an absence of a safety surface around it. Installing a safer surface, such as sand or bark, will reduce the risk to an acceptable level,” the report says. The old swings could be replaced with a two seat cradle swing and a separate two seat junior swing with flat rubber seats toward the back of the play area. These should have a safer surface installed beneath them. Rubber tiles would be initially more expensive but will stay in place and be less of a maintenance problem. A small multiplay unit for younger children aged 2-6 could replace the other items and should have a bark or sand surface. John A Kavanagh, who commissioned the survey at his own expense, says the report endorses the suggestion that the community and Naas UDC work together in the maintenance and insurance of this amenity, and if this happened it would be a model that could be used for other facilities in the town. CHAPMANS OF KILDARE Main Rover, Land Rover and Volvo dealers, Kildare town. Phone 045 521203; Fax 045 521785. See our selection here.

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Intel shows improved quarterly performance LEIXLIP & SANTA CLARA, 16 July 1999: by Brian Byrne. Intel Corporation, whose European headquarters employs over 4,000 in Leixlip, announced this week second quarter revenue of $6.7 billion, up 14 percent from second quarter 1998 revenue of $5.9 billion. Net income in the second quarter was $1.7 billion, up 49 percent from second quarter 1998 net income of $1.2 billion. Net income in the second quarter was down 13 percent from first quarter 1999 net income of $2.0 billion. "We are pleased with our accomplishments this quarter,” said Dr Craig R Barrett, president and chief executive officer. “We made progress positioning Intel for the evolving Internet economy. The Pentium® III processor, a high performance multimedia processor for the most demanding Internet applications, is on track to be our fastest ramping processor ever. In addition, we regained market segment share in the value PC segment with the Intel® Celeron processor. As expected, second quarter revenue reflected a seasonal slowdown, and we look forward to a strong second half."

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Newslines...Newslines KILDARE TOWN: Local people and travellers living in Kildare are to lobby Kildare County Council to find accommodation for travellers camped at Shraud in Kildare Town. Residents say the council is ‘passing the buck’ in terms of arranging proper accommodation for the travellers. KILDARE GENERAL: Striking VEC workers accepted a deal brokered by IMPACT and the Labour Court earlier this week and went back to work on Wednesday. The terms included the making of three temporary staff permanent and the provision of four new temporary workers. They had been on strike for three weeks over difficulties raised as far back as 1994. CELBRIDGE: President Mary McAleese officially opened a garden centre and nature trail at Celbridge Abbey, the culmination of a five-year project. She paid tribute to the dedication and commitment of the staff at the Abbey, most of whom come from the nearby St Raphael’s institution run by the St John of God brothers. LEIXLIP: Design and costing documents for a new library at Newtown House in Leixlip are being examined by the Department of the Environment. meanwhile, local children were delighted with the arrival at the Library last Tuesday of a Mobile Farm. NEWBRIDGE: Work on the redevelopment of the notorious ‘E’ Block at St Brigid’s Terrace will begin next month. Kildare County Council has signed a contract with Rydel Construction Ltd for the third phase of the renewal project for the area. The block has been the focus of unwelcome attention in the last year with drinking parties taking place despite the boarding up of the building by the council. ATHY: There was very good attendances at last weekend’s various events in Athy, including the County Show, the Bluegrass Festival and the Athy Fringe Arts Festival. There was also considerable interest in the Antiques Fair held at the Arch Community Centre (above).

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Incinerator battle not over - alliance CLANE, 15 July 1999: by Trish Whelan & Brian Byrne. Although Kildare county manager Niall Bradley yesterday turned down the application by Thermal Waste Management for an incinerator at Kilcock, the ‘war is not over’ those who came to an information evening in Clane were told last night. The meeting was one of a series which the North Kildare/South Meath Anti-Incinerator Alliance had arranged throughout both counties in advance of the decision, and was organised at the request of Clane Community Council. Chairman of the alliance Pat Beirne said the day’s ‘good news’ of the rejection of the application meant that local communities had ‘won the first round of the championship’. “But we mustn’t forget how hard it is to win an All-Ireland,” he warned. “The promoters have stated that they will be lodging an appeal to An Board Pleanala against the decision. We must not drop our guard, we must be vigilant to ensure that we build strong bonds with communities such as Clane and other areas. This going to be a long war, and while none of us want the battle, we must be prepared for it.” He said that the alliance had engaged the services of top solicitors and experts to fight their case at the next level, but fees are very expensive and the organisation was ‘seriously seeking funds’ which could not be provided solely by the residents of Kilcock. He urged the people of Clane to set up their own ‘action committee’ to help and he pledged any support and assistance they would need to do this. Tim Buckley of the legal and scientific committee of the alliance introduced a video describing alleged effects on communities in Hesse in Germany and Pontipool in Wales where incinerators have operated for many years. Local people told of illnesses, smells, dark clouds of smoke and worrying levels of dioxins in the soil, as well as site accidents. In the Welsh case, animals went sick and mad and refused to drink foul-tasting water. “And as recently as 1995, local health authorities issued warnings to people living in the vicinity not to eat eggs from the area because they had very high dioxin levels,” he said. Mr Buckley, an industrial chemist by profession, then detailed the technology and ‘fundamental flaws’ in the project, including insufficient water supply for the air pollution control systems, inadequate staffing for the safe running of the plant, and fire-fighting provision which could not deal with a serious chemical fire. “There’s a water reservoir of 100,000 gallons which would be used up in 1.5 hours ... and you couldn’t put out a serious chemical fire in that time,” he said. He outlined some of the by-products which would be produced by the process including 470 tonnes a year of ash which he said was extremely dangerous. “Words can’t begin to describe how toxic this is,” he said. “It has to go into a special licensed landfill site and we don’t have a place like that. They won’t want to transport it very far, and they’ll be looking locally for somewhere to put it.” He added that ‘fugitive emissions’ from storage pits and tank farms on the site would increase the danger, while a chemical fire could release in a few minutes the equivalent of the dioxins trapped by the pollution control systems in a month. “And chemical fires are a frequent occurrence in such operations,” he said. In response to a query from the audience, Mr Buckley agreed that toxic chemicals of different kinds could form even more dangerous compounds in the course of the incineration process than they represented individually. “The Environmental Impact Study is deficient in this area because it only mentions the toxic elements on their own.” Dr Arthur Courtney, a GP living and working in the area, told of the effects of incineration byproducts such as dioxins on people’s health. These include cancers, smaller testes size and sperm counts in men, cumulative concentration of toxins in breast milk of nursing women, suppression of immune systems, and diabetes. “Infants, children and the elderly are those most at risk,” he noted, and he outlined reports from Japan, Germany, the UK and Spain where increased dioxin levels were registered in people living close to incineration plants. Referring to the rejection of the planning application for the project, Tim Buckley warned people not to be complacent. “You would be very surprised to see how far the project has gone at the present moment,” he said. “I’ve talked to people in positions of influence who see the Kilcock site as being ideal.” The chairman of Clane Community Council, Dennis Collins, agreed with a suggestion from the floor that the Community Council would form a sub-group to support the alliance. Meanwhile, the North Kildare/South Meath Anti-Incinerator Alliance, which welcomed the decision in a statement last night, will hold a public rally on the site of the proposed development at 11am on Saturday 24 July. During the rally it is planned to have a large release of (biodegradable) balloons to symbolise the dispersal of toxic emissions that would be released from the incinerator. This rally will replace the previously reported protest of the same date. 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Incinerator decision 'purely on planning grounds' KCC chairman CLANE, 15 July 1999: by Trish Whelan & Brian Byrne. The chairman of Kildare County Council has emphasised that yesterday’s decision to refuse planning permission for an incinerator in Kilcock was based solely on ‘good planning and development principles’. Cllr P J Sheridan also said there was ‘absolutely no pressure’ exerted on the manager by councillors in his reaching his determination. “This application was purely an executive decision,” he said. “The councillors had no function whatsoever in it.” He welcomed the ruling, and said it was ‘ludicrous’ in the first place to even suggest that an incinerator should be located so close to a town area. The application was refused for 14 reasons, including that the project would be premature given that a national policy on hazardous waste disposal has not yet been published. Other grounds incorporated unacceptable traffic movements, injury to visual amenities and to the recreational amenity of the canal, insufficient water supply, and the size and bulk of the plant in an area of natural beauty. The authority also said that the proposed site was zoned for agricultural use, and the project would ‘contravene materially’ the development objective set out in the County Development Plan. Inadequate road infrastructure and dangers to public safety because of increased heavy goods traffic were also cited in the refusal. Cllr Sheridan said that Kildare County Council may now have to justify its decisions in any appeal to An Bord Pleanala, and that it would so do. He also noted that people can make their own representations to their public representatives and to any hearing which may come up on the issue. In a clarification of a popularly-held view that the site had previously been rezoned for light industry by councillors, he said that some 10 acres of the 35-acre site had been so designated for a particular enterprise, but that the overall site was still zoned for agricultural use.

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Kildare man appears in court charged with Phyllis Murphy murder NAAS, 14 July 1999 (PM): by Trish Whelan & Brian Byrne. A man charged with the murder of Phyllis Murphy (left) 20 years ago will appear in Newbridge District Court tomorrow after a first appearance in Naas Courthouse today. John Crerar, (arrowed) 2521 Woodside Park, Kildare Town, was remanded in custody after Det Sgt Mark Carroll of Newbridge gardai gave evidence of arresting the defendant yesterday morning, and charging him last night at Naas Garda Station. When cautioned on each occasion, Crerar had replied ‘not guilty’. The defendant’s solicitor Conal Boyce asked that the matter be adjourned until tomorrow as he had not had instruction from his client, who has been granted free legal aid. His request was granted by Justice Thomas Ballagh. The courthouse was packed with local people and a number of retired garda officers who had worked on the case originally. Outside the court a large crowd of people taunted the defendant as he was brought to and from the building under heavy garda escort. Also there was Detective Sgt Bernard McArdle, a garda forensic expert, who used state-of-the-art DNA techniques to check out the 20-year-old evidence. Ms Murphy’s body was found a month after her disappearance in December 1979 by members of Naas Traffic Corps who had been searching the snow-covered area near Turlough Hill in the Wicklow Gap. Pictured below outside the court are Det Pat Treacy from Operation Trace, the investigative unit based at Naas Garda Station which is looking into the disappearance of six women (see story below), retired Garda Detective Pat Burke, and Det John Harrington of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, both of whom worked on the original murder hunt. St Fiachra's Garden at the Irish National Stud Special KNN Picture Feature.

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Man to be charged with Phyllis Murphy murder NAAS, 14 July 1999: by Brian Byrne. A man will be formally charged at a court sitting in Naas this morning with the murder of 23-year-old Phyllis Murphy of Kildare, who was raped and murdered 20 years ago. Her body was found in the Wicklow mountains in January 1980 after a month-long search following her disappearance while Christmas shopping in Newbridge. The man to be charged is aged 51 and is said to have been a security operative and a factory worker since retiring from the Defence Forces more than two decades ago. He was arrested yesterday morning after a two-year new investigation, led by forensic expert Det Sgt Bernard McArdle, to check out the 20-year-old evidence. The suspect was arrested at his home in Kildare yesterday morning. A father of five, he had retired as a sergeant in the Army some months before the murder of Ms Murphy, who was thought by detectives investigating her murder to have taken a lift rather than catch the bus she was waiting for near Keadeen Hotel. A 63-year-old man also arrested in Kildare yesterday morning was released without charge last night after being questioned about an alibi statement made to gardai at the time of the original investigation. The new investigation was separate to Operation Trace, the special inquiry set up last September to try and solve the disappearance of six women in the Leinster area since 1983 - these include Deirdre Jacob of Newbridge and Jo Jo Dullard who disappeared near Castledermot. Gardai last night said they had no evidence liking the suspect in the Murphy killing to any of the others. At the time of the Murphy killing blood samples were taken from 635 people in the Kildare area. Two years ago, Det Sgt McArdle reopened the case by using new DNA techniques which had not been available 20 years go. CHAPMANS OF KILDARE Main Rover, Land Rover and Volvo dealers, Kildare town. Phone 045 521203; Fax 045 521785. See our selection here.

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The search for six missing women NAAS, 14 July 1999: by Brian Byrne. The developments in the Phyllis Murphy murder will spur a fresh look at the cases of six women who went missing in the Leinster region in the last 16 years. They are: Annie McCarrick (26), (right) an American student who was last seen when she got on a 44 bus for Enniskerry on Friday, March 26, 1993. Her father, a retired New York Detective, offered a $150,000 reward for information and also hired private detectives to try and solve her disappearance. Jo Jo Dullard (21), disappeared while hitching to her Co Kilkenny home on November 9, 1995. The last place she was known to be in was a public phone box at Moone, Co Kildare, where she rang a friend close to midnight. Fiona Pender (25) vanished from her Tullamore flat on August 24, 1996. Her boyfriend John Thompson said he had last seen her at 6am that morning when he left to work on the family farm. Her mother had seen her the previous day in the flat. She was expecting her boyfriend’s child. Ciara Breen (17) (left) disappeared from her mother’s home at Bachelor’s Walk, Dundalk, in the middle of the night of February 12, 1997. Her downstairs bedroom window was open when her mother found that she was missing. Fiona Sinnott (19) was never seen after a night out with friends on February 8, 1998 in Co Wexford. She had recently separated from the father of her daughter. Deirdre Jacob (18) (right) vanished after being last reported close to her home in Newbridge in July 1998. She had done some shopping and visited her grandmother in the town during the afternoon before heading for home at Roseberry. She had been due to return to Britain where she was a student teacher.

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Man being questioned over Phyllis Murphy murder NAAS, 13 July 1999: by Brian Byrne. Gardai have arrested a 51-year-old man from the Kildare area in connection with the rape and murder of Phyllis Murphy in 1979. The man is being held in Naas Garda Station and it is understood that the arrest was made following the activity of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s ‘Operation Trace’ investigating the disappearance of a number of women in recent years. Phyllis Murphy, aged 23 and from Kildare town, was last seen when doing her Christmas shopping in Newbridge. She left to catch a bus for home, but never got there. Her clothing was subsequently found scattered on the Kildare end of the Curragh. Her naked body was eventually found in a pine wood near the Wicklow Gap. The man being questioned was arrested at 7.30 this morning. Gardai describe the move as a ‘major breakthrough’. A second man is also being questioned in connection with an alibi given to the suspect, who is said to have an Army background. There are reports that a DNA sample taken in connection with the investigations into the disapearance of Deirdre Jacobs, Jo Jo Dullard and Annie McCarrick among others is a key element in the breakthrough. CHAPMANS OF KILDARE Main Rover, Land Rover and Volvo dealers, Kildare town. Phone 045 521203; Fax 045 521785. See our selection here.

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Equine art exhibition in Newbridge NEWBRIDGE, 13 July 1999: by Brian Byrne. The minister for tourism, Dr Jim McDaid TD, opened an exhibition of equine paintings and sculptures by Donegal artist Marina Hamilton at Keadeen Hotel last weekend. The event was organised by the Simply Art Gallery, Athgarvan (Marina is pictured above on right with Simply Art proprietor Mary Feely-Hobbs). Horses have always played an important part in Marina Hamilton’s life - she was a jockey for 12 years - and following her graduation from the University of Ulster at Belfast with a degree in Fine Craft Design she established herself as an artist with a particularly fine sense of the personality of the animals she portrays. Her commissions have included a series of one-off pieces for the 1996 Balcas International Three Day Event at Enniskillen, and a painting of 1996 Grand National winner Rough Quest for the horse’s trainer Terry Casey.

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Dardis defends Byrne EU appointment NEWBRIDGE, 13 July 1999: by Brian Byrne. Newbridge-based Progressive Democrat Senator John Dardis has described criticisms of Ireland’s new EU Commissioner David Byrne as a ‘disgrace’. Commenting on Fine Gael party suggestions that the portfolio allocated to Mr Byrne - Consumer Protection and Food Safety - was a ‘low-spending’ one, Senator Dardis said it is in fact a ‘very influential’ portfolio. “Representing a food producing and exporting nation, he will play a critical role in securing consumer confidence in the food we produce, eat and sell.” He noted that the Fine Gael-appointed Peter Sutherland’s Competition portfolio was not very high profile when he took it up, but criticism of this by opposition parties would ‘not have been in the national interest’. “During his term, Peter Sutherland used his skill and ability to bring the importance of competition to the top of the European agenda,” Senator Dardis added. “David Byrne will do the same with an area that directly affects all of our daily lives.”

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Doctors' surgery application NAAS, 13 July 1999: by Trish Whelan. Permission is being sought for a doctors’ surgery at 7 Basin Street, Naas. Dr Bernadette Sweeney and Dr Eamonn Dillon, with a registered office address at The Moat Mall, have applied for change of use from dwelling to surgery and to extend the premises. Dúchas, The Heritage Service; National Monuments & Historic Properties; Bord Fáilte Eireann and The Heritage Council have been informed of the application in accordance with the Local Government (Planning & Development) Regulations 1994.

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Kildare orchestra at NCH KILDARE GENERAL, 13 July 1999: The County Kildare Orchestra performed last Saturday at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, featuring conductor Trini Armstrong and soloist Anthony Kearns, tenor. Among the pieces performed were Delibes’ ‘Le Roi s’amuse’ Suite, Rachael Holstead’s Cáth Fionntrá, and Schubert’s Symphony No 8 (The Unfinished). The Orchestra is sponsored by Kildare County Council, the Ireland Funds and the Arts Council. Members are pictured below with Kildare county manager Niall Bradley when they played prior to the inaugrual meeting of the new Kildare County Council recently.

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Big celebration for Fiona RATHANGAN, 12 July 1999: by Brian Byrne. The people of Rathangan and surrounding areas held a massive party last week to celebrate the winning of a seat in the recent local elections by Cllr Fiona O’Loughlin (FF), who achieved a combined total of over 2,000 first preference votes. It was one of the highest votes in Kildare and a record vote for a first-time candidate in Kildare South. (Fiona is pictured above at the election count with her father Jimmy, being congratulated by Celbridge winner Katherine Walsh). Chairman of the local Fianna Fail branch John Shanahan said her performance was ‘an incredible achievement’ given the number of ‘heavy hitters’ in the area. “Taking the second seat was no small feat in a six-seater with six outgoing councillors, including two general election candidates, and the wife of a former Leader of Fine Gael running,” he said.

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	Ballitore children perform their own plays
	CROOKSTOWN, 12 July 1999: by Trish Whelan. Children from the Ballitore and Crookstown areas performed two plays for their parents in Crookstown Hall at the weekend, following a week-long children’s drama project run in Ballitore Library. Some 26 youngsters aged 6-12 took part and in addition to writing and rehearsing ‘The Frog Prince’ and ‘Joan of Arc’ they made the props and costumes and painted scenery. Librarian Mary Malone said what had been achieved in the week was ‘simply amazing’. “These young people came together last Monday in Ballitore, playing together, working together and making new friends. We are immensely proud of what they have done.” She also paid tribute to artists Jack Candelay and Leish Burke, who tutored the children during the week, and thanked the parents for supporting the shows in such big numbers. “Your presence meant a lot to each and every one of us,” she said and also acknowledged the support of county librarian Breda Gleeson and ASK. “It’s been a tremendous community effort,” Breda Gleeson said afterwards. “We’re doing a more varied set of activities in the library service, and Mary Malone is ‘a tonic’ in this respect. There is scope for more support to ensure these types of workshop for your children,” she said.

Jigginstown Park appeal deferred NAAS, 12 July 1999: by Trish Whelan. An Bord Pleanala has deferred until September a decision on an appeal by a Naas developer against conditions of a planning permission for a new section of the Jigginstown Park estate. John Connolly of Ardleigh Developments had appealed a number of conditions, including a contribution of £127,000 to Naas UDC towards the acquisition of land for road improvements. In relation to two of the conditions, the construction of a distributor road and a contribution towards roadwork costs, the company say they have already built a 130m section of the road as required and claim it is not reasonable that they should have to construct or contribute to the cost any further. The road will link the Newbridge Road via a new bridge over the canal at Jigginstown Park to the proposed Millennium Park. The developer is also appealing a contribution of £34,000 towards costs which the Council has, or may incur, in respect of road improvement works, footpaths and public lighting, on the grounds that the company is carrying out road lighting and works to footpaths. Ardleigh Developments claim that no new serious planning issues had been raised in their latest appeal that had not already been dealt with on the original planning application and say they are ‘at a loss to understand’ why the planning authority should have delayed ‘such a straightforward application’ for over four months. Finance minister Charlie McCreevy TD (left) made representations to the UDC on behalf of Ardleigh Developments in January of this year, requesting a meeting between the company and UDC officials to discuss the disputed conditions - which had been removed by An Bord Pleanala under a previous planning application. The extension of Jigginstown Park involves the construction of 32 detached two-storey houses and two bungalows.

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