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The former Crowley’s Music Store on Cork’s MacCurtain St today (top) looking neglected and up for sale.

Rory Gallagher purchased his 1961 Fender Stratocaster (centre) in Crowley’s Merchants Quay shop and changed Irish music FOREVER.

In the clip (above) from his 1974 Irish tour documentary Rory is seen sampling the goods in both shops and talking with proprietor Michael Crowley.

Previously: Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fender

Story, Rory?

A Million Miles Away

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The Pavilion (Facebook)

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Eoin English of the Irish Examiner reports that a Cork schoolboys soccer club has been fined €200 for abandoning a game after one of their players was racially abused.

Irish Examiner: Schoolboy soccer club fined for taking players off pitch in stand against racism

Carrigaline United AFC

 

Meanwhile, in Cork..

And in other news…

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Reported sightings of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West on their honeymoon abound.

Yay.

Oh.

Pod finally lands as Fitzgerald Park reopens (Eoin English, Irish Examiner)

Sky Garden to be unveiled (Cork News)

Previously: Gardening: The New Banking and The Hanging Garden Of Babble On

Why Are We Just So Brilliant At Everything?

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Cork City Hall

You may recall previous posts in relation to how planning inquiries in relation to seven local authorities – Dublin and Cork City Councils and Carlow, Galway, Cork, Meath and Donegal County Councils – had been organised to get under way by the former Environment Minister John Gormley but were terminated by Environment Minister Phil Hogan, following the 2011 general election.

An internal review by the Department of the Environment was published in June 2012 instead and it found there was no evidence of wrongdoing

This prompted Gerard Convie, who worked in Donegal County Council as a senior planner for 24 years before he resigned in 2007, to go to the High Court alleging that the review was inadequate, ‘deeply disturbing’ and failed to address his complaints in relation to Donegal County Council.

His action resulted in the High Court quashing the review’s section on Donegal County Council’s planning department; the Department of the Environment apologising to Mr Convie and him being awarded €25,000.

Mr Convie’s material in relation to Donegal was sent to the Attorney General Máire Whelan for direction and it’s understood she has now sent this on to the Environment Minister Phil Hogan, who is expected to release a review before the summer

Labour’s Minister of State for Housing and Planning, Jan O’Sullivan then announced that a review will take place into the other six authorities.

These reviews are being carried out by town planners and chartered surveyors company MacCabe Durney Barnes.

Further to this, in relation to Cork City Council, Mick Murphy – a local Green Party candidate – made a series of complaints in relation to planning matters in Cork City Council, with his original complaints going back to 2006.

Following Ms O’Sullivan’s announcement of a new review, Mr Murphy received a letter from MacCabe Durney Barnes, essentially asking him if his complaints still stand, if any have been resolved and he believes their draft statement of issues is accurate.

Mr Murphy said his complaints do still stand, they haven’t been resolved and said he does believe their draft statement of issues reflects his concerns.

From his reply:

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Previously: Spurious, You Say?

Why Did Phil Hogan Stop Six Separate Planning Inquiries?

Thanks Mick Murphy

Pic: Archiseek