Junior on Senior
Inside Politics' guest tomorrow is Ian Paisley Jr. He talks about the shooting of the police officer in Londonderry, and speculation that the UDA may wind up the UFF this weekend. I also ask him whether there's any chance of a move against his father within the DUP that would mirror what happened within the Free Presbyterian church. His answer - that would be a "kamikaze tactic". Oh, and Seymour Sweeney gets a mention too.
The programme is on air at 1245 on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio Ulster.
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".. there are no issues here that the public needs to be concerned about" .. Junior on Ballyallaght Farms Cottages development
He cannot be serious!!
Ballyallaght lies within the Giant's Causeway WHS 4km buffer zone and, in 1999, special restrictions were put in place: "Policy BH 5 states that:
'The Department will operate a presumption in favour of the preservation of the WHS. Development, which would adversely affect such sites or the integrity of their settings, will not be permitted unless there are exceptional circumstances.'"
Perhaps COMMENT EDITED Coleraine planning office, (and Paisley jnr) can explain why permission was given, in 2001, for a fourteen dwelling development within the 4km zone when one month earlier he'd given strong reasons why a single retirement dwelling couldn't be built on the other side of the road.
There's also the matter of an application near Ballintoy where Paisley snr and others supported an application, in 1999, for two replacement dwellings when the records show only one dwelling - and some farm outhouses. You'd think that the 'farmer's friend' would have been surprised to find a bathroom suite in the piggery!!
Will the Paisleys support a request for retrospective planning permission for the metal and razor-wire cage that now surrounds the former Black Rock fisherman's cottage, in front of Sweeney's Runkerry House, or will they press Minister Foster to have it removed?