File 2 - Lobbying politicians and public bodies (First campaign)

2 folders (c. 300 pp)

File of correspondence among opponents to the West Connemara Airstrip and politicians and public bodies.

Folder 1/2: Correspondents include: Galway County Council Planning Office; Richard Nairn of the Irish Wildbird Conservancy; John Moriarty; the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce - Desmond O'Malley TD; Deputy Pádraic McCormack; the office of Minister for the Environment - Pádraig Flynn TD; Máire Geoghegan-Quinn TD; Éamon Ó Cuív; the Office of the Minsiter for Tourism and Transport - Séamus Brennan, TD; the Office of the Taoiseach - Charles Haughey; Michael D Higgins, TD; Frank Fahey, TD; C J Dawkins; Prof David K Ferguson; the Office of Alan M Dukes TD, Ceannaire, Fine Gael; Mary Harney; Maureen Finneran; Leslie Lyons; Seán Brown of Bord Fáilte; Allan Craig of the Office of Public Works; Dave Madden of the National Parks and Monuments Service; Brian Flynn, Regional Tourism Manager with Ireland West; Kevin and Susan Cronan; Prof Dr V Westhoff; Alan Shatter TD; Brendan Daly Department of Finance; Allan Craig Office of Public Works; Robert (Bobby) Molloy TD; Cllr Tom Welby Galway County Council; Senator J M Mannion; Senator P McCormack; Cllr Peadar Ó Tuathail; Cllr Micheál Ó Moráin; Senator Avril Doyle; Senor Carlo Ripa di Meana; Mary Banotti MEP; Ruairi Quinn TD; Stanley Clinton Davis; Roger Garland TD; An Bord Pleanála; Dr N O'Keeffe of the Wildlife Service in the OPW; Senator J Murphy; Senator David Norris; Captain Aidan A Quigley; Captain A J Morris; Brendan Scully of the OPW; Ian S Mac Phail of the International Fund for Animal Welfare; Cllr J M Mannion; James White of the Botany Department at UCD;

Correspondence with Christine Allen questioning the campaign's decision to boycott the plebiscite, with reply from either Tim or Máiréad Robinson outlining their reasons why. (1990).

Letters written to the Irish Times and Irish Independent in support of the Save Roundstone Bog campaign addressing the impact of the airstrip on local families, hillwalkers, the limitations in access and transportation that it offers to offshore communities, ASIs, wildlife;

Folder 2/2: Correspondents include: the Seanad Committee of Procedures and Privileges; Richard Bradshaw of the School of Botany at UCD regarding an interview on the Gay Byrne show; An Bord Pleanála on deciding to hold an oral hearing; Margarita Blackwell; Christine Allen; Paul Hughes of the Abbeyglen Castle Hotel in Clifden - Máiréad Robinson thanking him for hosting the Gay Byrne Show; Dick Scott referencing Aer Lingus and Ryanair; Brendan Scully of the OPW on new proposed site at Derrigimlagh; Paul Anthony; Cornelia and Peter Legge; Typed piece with cover note by David Jeffrey 'Synergy is the Name of the Game' outlining previous cases: The Golfclub at Castlegregory, the Finfish farm at Ballyvaughan, Forestry on the Errisbeg Boglands, the Clifden Airport Project; Micheál O Brian of the Irish Wildbird Conservancy; Emer Colleran of An Taisce - encloses copies of Dáil Questions from Rúairí Quinn, Liam Kavanagh and Pat McCartan, and mentions a meeting with the IFA in Clifden; Fergus O'Gorman of the OPW; Eleanor Harkin-Larkin; copy letter Professor D K Ferguson to An Bord Pleanála; Dr Stephen Waldren on behalf of Trinity College Botanic Gardens; Ginny Jackson; Carol Hora with enclosures of acknowledgements and replies she has had from TDs and MEPs and lobby groups regarding the proposal; Rees Lankester, the assistant to H Muntuigh, MEP enclosing the parliamentary questions Mr Muntuigh will put to the European Commission, (Dutch language); Newspaper clipping 'Plaything for the plutocrats' a piece by Tom O'Dea;

Documented procedure at Oral Hearings of Planning Appeals with an An Bord Pleanála. Signed petition opposing the development. Letter (in Irish) from Clár [ ] on Muintearas notepaper, encloses some signatures. Photocopied letter to Tim and Máiréad Robinson from Liam Cashman addressing their questions on Structural Funding and environmental concerns. Photocopied map with the new strip marked out.

Third party correspondence: addressed to Leo Hallissey from Mary Harney and Charles J Haughey (8 Dec 1989 - 8 May 1990, some undated). Letters of support from Patrick Shaffrey, Roger Garland TD, Des Hogan, Lucy Warham, letter enclosing petition signatures, Gerard A Brikkenaar van Dijk, Dr J de Courcey, Dr Stephen Waldren, A M Flegg. Handwritten letter to Billy [ ] from Bernadette Byrne, handwritten letters to Mr Foyle from M P Kelly and Athene Keatinge on peatbogs; copy letter from A H Morris to the Chief Planning Office in Galway County Council; photocopied letter from Brendan Daly TD to Denis Ward on the designation of the proposed site for the airstrip as an Area of Scientific Interest; copy letter to the Editor of the Connacht Tribune from Joss Lynam.

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