FERMOY’S SHIPTON DEVELOPMENT

Dear Editor,

How could any reasonable person have faith in the competence of Shipton Developments to successfully complete a commercial development on the site of the former Fermoy Mart?

It borders on the incredible that the firm’s architects could not submit an application for planning permission, which would be within the criteria for a site that has a history of being flooded on a regular basis.

It is reasonable to assume that the firm’s architects and planning team were familiar with the planning authority’s guidelines and requirements prior to submitting the documentation to Fermoy Town Council seeking planning permission.

The obvious question must be asked “are the planning authority transmitting a subliminal message to the people of Fermoy?”

Every town of comparable size throughout Ireland has developed in a structured and planned manner over the past ten years. Many similar size towns to Fermoy have expanded beyond recognition through the development of new commercial industrial parks, shopping centres and housing developments over the past decade.

Is Fermoy destined to remain static for the foreseeable future?

It is obvious to impartial observers that the only logical solution is to secure an adequate land bank and identify a developer to plan and construct a new out of town modern shopping complex.

It is unlikely that the much needed hotel and out of town shopping complex will materialise in the foreseeable future.

Yours sincerely,
J J Bunyan,
‘Viewmount’,
Barry’s Boreen,
Fermoy.

PREACHING THE WRONG GOSPEL ON ZIMBABWE

Dear Editor,

Yesterday morning I was playing around with my TV decoder trying to get something decent to watch. I get twelve free stations of which half are news and light entertainment and the rest are religious broadcasts.

Though not a religious person as such, I like to listen to Jimmy Swaggart’s music and sometimes I am lucky to pick up his programme which is not advertised and is just pot luck.

During my trawl yesterday I picked up this American, bald headed preacher man, dressed in grey slacks and black jacket and shirt preaching about helping needy children in Sub Sahara Africa.

The audience must have been British because he was looking for donations in pounds sterling to look after the kids. He went on about how the little ones were suffering and explained that he had just come back from the hell hole on earth Harare, Zimbabwe, where he was roused out of bed at the awful hour of six o’clock in the morning to witness the following activity!

He described the scene as such “Ma brothers an sisters ah saw trucks going around the city stopping from time to time where street kids were sleeping and when anybody did not respond to prodding it was presumed to be dead and chucked into the back of the truck, which when full, was driven to a spot out of town where the bodies were burned”.

Well I know that we have problems here in Zimbabwe, but this preacherman takes the biscuit for outright slander and in fact instead of begging for help, try and get tourists to help the kids direct and still enjoy themselves with a bit of golf or fishing and with a clear conscience.

This sort of blatant crap from the so called man of the cloth is guaranteed to make this country with problems into a problem country like North Korea.

Yesterday afternoon I had a chat with a newly elected member of parliament for the opposition party and when I told him of what I had seen on the TV he looked at me in horror and said “I know we need friends overseas, but that swine is no friend of the Zimbabwe people and should be told so accordingly, does he think that we are beasts”.

Fact is sometimes stranger than fiction and some white people I come across here still believe that Irish people still sleep six to a room. Four humans and two donkeys! Woodya bulleve it!

Pat Power,
Avondhu and Zambezi.

COME AND WITNESS EVENTS AT FERMOY TOWN COUNCIL MEETINGS

Dear Editor,

Following recent circumstances surrounding events at a Fermoy Town Council meeting, I take this opportunity to encourage members of the public to be present at future meetings where they can listen to motions being put forward and debates concerning the town.

The above mentioned meetings of Fermoy Town Council take place at 6.30pm on the third Tuesday of each month. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Cllr William Hughes,
Fermoy.