What makes a happy pear unhappy?5G mast built next to organic farm – Irish Times

The staff at Happy Pear aren’t too happy this week. Last year, Greystones-based gourmet twins Dave and Steve Flynn went on a podcast to link antibiotics to an increase in depression and suggested that eating mushrooms could reduce the risk of breast cancer. I had to apologize. Now they are losing Zen to his 5G.

Last week, An Bord Pleanála granted Signal Infrastructure the go-ahead to build a 35-metre communications mast next to the Plague Peddler production factory on the grounds of Holy Faith Abbey in Kilcoole, just south of Greystones. did.

A third sibling, Darragh Flynn, who tends to keep a lower profile than his more enthusiastic brethren, opposes the mast on behalf of the company and plans to install a 5G mast right next to an organic farm. “Customers may hesitate to purchase, and this may cause serious reputational damage.” We have given our opinion in light of the unknown health effects of 5G masts in close proximity to organic crops. ”

Mr Flynn unsuccessfully appealed Wicklow County Council’s decision to grant permission to use the mast, despite many health and environmental authorities giving the technology a clean health green light. It warned that it could pose a threat to health and “the biology and biodiversity that lives on our farms”. ”.

Please keep your shirt on.

Crowley becomes financial manager

Outhalf Jack Crowley is learning fast. The Cork-born number 10 has just set up a limited company to handle his own income. Crowley, who learned his craft at Bandon and Cork Cong rugby clubs, worked with his aunt Elaine Burke as co-manager. Perhaps not a bad choice, given that she is something of a Munster sporting icon in her own right, winning three All-Ireland titles with Cork’s camogie team in the 2000s.

The company’s name would suggest that Crowley lacks confidence. JC10 Rugby Ltd has some roots in Bod 13 Sports Management Ltd, the company founded by the former Ireland international.

Most teams these days have their own companies to handle sponsorship revenue, but the team’s other young mainstay, Joe McCarthy, doesn’t appear to have started one yet.

Couldn’t someone introduce him to a good accountant?

Mr De Paor hits back at Wicklow architecture critic

Architect Tom de Paor is no stranger to praise. The designer of Galway’s Pallas Cinema has been acclaimed ever since he shot to fame in the early 2000s when he created his Irish Pavilion, made from 1,741 peat briquettes, at his Venice Biennale. The Royal Institute of British Architects awarded him an International Fellowship in 2003 and recognized him as ‘Ireland’s leading architect of his generation’.

But one of his works received an even more lukewarm response from Wicklow County Council’s ever-cautious planners. Mr De Paor is seeking retention permission to redevelop a series of farm structures at his Dysart home in Bray Head. He has been working on converting his seven outbuildings into a series of living spaces with courtyards. Wicklow planners last week listed a number of concerns about the project, harshly describing it as a “haphazard form of development”.

They said it was “unlikely” that Mr De Paor would be granted permission to preserve the current layout and should instead seek to link several structures together into a single building. It also asked for “greater clarity” on floor plans submitted by architects, saying only buildings laid out as home offices and dens would likely be accepted.

Italy’s prestigious architecture magazine Domus was rather enthusiastic when it visited Dysart to feature the project. At least I think we were.

“The resulting language suggests multiple readings as both fact and fiction, and architecture is tied to a continuous present, not past or future,” concludes the fluent architect. I attached it.

Barry Keoghan’s acting class

Barry Keoghan plans to go back to school. Summerhill’s biggest celebrity since Bill Cullen, he had no formal acting training in his youth, attending the school of hard knocks instead. Speaking to Vanity Fair at the Oscar screening on Wednesday night, Kogan said he had signed up for acting classes in Los Angeles, where he is currently based.

“I enrolled in an acting school called Stella Adler. The person who taught me that was Mark Ruffalo,” he said. “I didn’t grow up with any formal training, so [in acting] And I would like to learn some techniques. There are no limits to learning. ”

When Cogan and his menacing eyes approached his first class, his fellow students were a little perplexed. “They were almost like, ‘But why?’ You [working] actor. ‘I’ve never done any training.want [those skills] in my back pocket. ”

Aos Dana plans to reinstate luxury membership badges

The plight of Aos Dana, an organization of self-selected artists awarded to the nation by Charles Haughey in the 1980s. At the time, the 250 members received lapel pins indicating they had been accepted into the exclusive club. Although the practice has fizzled over time, the 10-member committee that runs the organization, An Toskyreachto, recently announced that Aosdana’s artists, writers, musicians, architects, and choreographers, I explored the idea of ​​asking for new pins. Quotes for solid gold pins were obtained from ESL Jewelery, where he created the original pins, but they proved to be too expensive, so the idea is on hold. I’ve heard that if it goes ahead, members will be asked to cough to get their pin.

The landowner would have been shocked.

jostling for position around the Vicar Street site

Harry Crosbie has been trying to develop a hotel on the grounds of the Vicar Street venue for more than a decade. He recently applied to Dublin City Council for planning permission for his luxurious new eight-storey building with 182 bedrooms and his art studio on the ground floor and basement. But promoters faced a new hurdle.

A group of horse-drawn carriage owners who bring tourists into the city say the hotel’s intrusion into Molineau Yard, where they have kept their carriages since rare times, could damage their livelihoods. It’s putting a stop to the plan.

They want Parliament to insert a condition exempting horse stables if hotels are granted permission. After all, Congress is supposed to support sustainable transportation.

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