Let the message go out loud and clear to the powers-that-be. Our three sister communities of Sandymount, Irish-town and Ringsend are totally and absolutely against the building of an incinerator at the Poolbeg Peninsula.

The battle lines have already been drawn. The Combined Residents Association in Ringsend, who are only recently fresh from victory on the high-rise proposals on Thorncastle St., have already drawn up their plan of action.

Their quickness off the mark in organising a very well attended public meeting to brief locals is indicative of the efficiency for future operations. Though, the proposals are not yet at the planning stage, any further developments will be monitored closely and our community briefed accordingly.

All the local residents associations in our area are up in arms.

The Sandymount and Merrion Residents Association point out that Sandymount would be the nearest location to the incinerator. Meanwhile, the Bath Avenue and District Residents Association maintain that they they are in a direct corridor of prevailing winds from the proposed site.

Our communities have been down this anti-incinerator road before with great success. Surprisingly, the researchers of the new proposals seem to be totally unaware of that fact.

That victory against the Bio-Burn relocation to the Pigeon House, four years ago, was harnessed on total community commitment.

That commitment has not gone away.

Our area has its full quota of dirty industry. Our area has also served its time with a dump on its door step for over forty years. Should the proposals move onto the planning stage “Our Community will not Stand Idly by”.

Our photographs show demonstrations from the long hot summer of 1995, during the previous unsuccessful attempt to build an incinerator in this area.