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I’ve received a number of bills and renewal notices of various kinds over the last few weeks, indicating the anniversary of me completing the purchase of, and moving into, my house in Maynooth. In fact it was five years ago today that I wrote a blog post occasioned by the fact that I’d collected the keys to this property, though it wasn’t until the following weekend that I actually stayed overnight here for the first time.

I was very lucky to be able to able to buy this property in what turned out to be a short window in the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in the Summer of 2020. There were plans to return to on-campus teaching in September with drastic restrictions on the number of students in each venue. That plan was subsequently changed and then changed again to move almost all teaching back online, and then again to move again into a “Level 5” lockdown.

I was Head of Department back then. My memories of that time were immense levels of stress and frustration, constantly having to change our teaching arrangements with very little support from the University as well as shouldering a full teaching load. In order for the institution to carry on functioning, all teaching and support staff to do huge amounts of unpaid overtime while the institution built up a massive financial surplus. I could say more about the callous indifference to staff and students alike shown at that time by one particular member of The Management, but I think I had better save it for when I’ve retired.

Given the enormous workload I had then, it was to be almost another year before I had time to collect most of my belongings from my house in Cardiff and longer still before I managed to sell it and pay off the mortgage I took out to buy my house here. All this was much more complicated than I expected when I moved to Ireland!

Anyway, many of the things I’d planned to do when I moved here still aren’t done. I bought some old furniture from the previous owner with the intention of replacing it with new, for example, but I somehow never got round to that. Nor have I replaced the old windows, gutters, etc, yet…

One thing I have done is change the refuse collection. When I moved in I took over a contract with Bord na Móna (literally “The Turf Board”), a company set up in 1946 to supply peat as a form of fuel but now diversified into other activities such as collecting and disposing waste. Over the last year the service provided by this company has degenerated to the point of complete unreliability. When I looked around for a replacement I found that Bord na Móna was also significantly more expensive than its competitors. Earlier this summer, therefore, I swtiched to a company called Greyhound which so far seems much better organized and is about 2/3 the price. That meant I had two sets of wheelie bins cluttering up my garden for about two months until Bord na Móna got around to removing theirs.

#BordNaMóna #Covid19 #GreyhoundRecycling #Lockdown #Maynooth

#maynooth #lockdown #greyhoundrecycling #covid19 #bordnamona

Irish Independent RSS @[email protected]

2025-02-21

[21:38] ‘Shocking’ that Bord na Móna will not reveal sale price for bin collection business, Union writes in letter to Opposition

Politicians have been told it is “shocking” that Bord na Móna will not reveal the sale price agreed to dispose of its bin collection business.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/shocking-that-bord-na-mona-will-not-reveal-sale-price-for-bin-collection-business-union-writes-in-letter-to-opposition/a710067785.html

#BordnaMóna

#bordnamona

RTE News Headlines @[email protected]

2025-02-07

[22:47] Bord na Móna to sell its recycling business

Bord na Móna has reached an agreement to sell Bord na Móna Recycling to KWD Recycling, subject to regulatory approval.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0207/1495447-bord-na-mona/

#BordnaMóna #BordnaMónaRecycling #KWDRecycling

#bordnamona #bordnamonarecycling #kwdrecycling

Irish Independent RSS @[email protected]

2025-02-07

[20:06] Bord na Móna reaches deal to sell bin collection business that services 135,000 customers

Bord na Móna has reached a deal to sell its bin collection business that provides services to 135,000 households across the country.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bord-na-mona-reaches-deal-to-sell-bin-collection-business-that-services-135000-customers/a182292669.html

#BordnaMóna #135,000

#bordnamona

John O Loughlin @[email protected]

2023-01-01

This is one of the old bog railways, unused now, which were used to take milled peat to a power station for burning to produce electricity. If you scroll in you csn just about see the vapor from it now as it burns wood chip instead and also the wind turbines on the cutaway bog. Look at the edges for some idea how deep the peat was. #bog #oldrailways #peat #bordnamona

#bog #oldrailways #peat #bordnamona

Global Action Plan @[email protected]

2022-11-09

Global Action Plan’s Emer Savage ddressing visitors to the #HousingUnlocked exhibition, explaining why we teamed up with the Irish #Architecture Foundation o work with the communities in the #BordNaMóna Workers’ Villages.

https://reimagineplace.ie/news/workers-villages-exhibition/

#bordnamona #architecture #housingunlocked