Many of the improvements in our day-to-day life stem directly from European legislation
But my photograph appeared in the Irish Press and other newspapers. My proud mother, Terrie Murray, kept all the clippings. She’s keeping well. Both my parents are.Due to the pending European Union membership, the marriage bar had been lifted in the VHI and so my mother was one of the first women in Ireland to return to a semi-State after marriage.
When I was growing up, sewage was pumped directly into the sea with limited treatment. But thanks to EU environmental laws and funding, a sewage treatment plant was built. It seems to me that many of the improvements in our day-to-day life, such as water and air quality, stem directly from European legislation.
Initially the journey from Bray to Galway would take between three and four hours but with EU funding a motorway was built from Dublin to Galway, reducing the journey time to two hours.
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