Professor Paul Dunlop balances his professional life as a glaciologist with an intense investigation into the defective blocks that are steadily and irreversibly ruining his family home
Some of Dunlop’s work requires long periods using satellite imagery and data to map large-scale systems. With that panorama, he can gauge the long-defunct corridors of fast ice flow and identify where the sea was butting against the land. “It is like reconstructing a crime scene,” he says. He was part of a team that went to Newfoundland using a sonar system to map the seafloor so they could identify the same kind of glacial landforms found offshore.
“Our thinking was: at least if the inside is nice, we can deal with the outside thing. It will just be a case of doing the outside blocks and it will be a case of costing us maybe €15,000 on top of the grant scheme. Then the engineers report came back.” We’d always say this is not your worry, your job is to go to school, get to college, go out with your friends. But they see us. They’d come in and say: are youse talking about mica again?“What pyrrhotite does is when it comes into contact with moisture and oxygen, it rusts, because these minerals are made from iron and sulphur,” he explains. Dunlop speaks with the clarity of an experienced lecturer.
“This is the worst in all of the world that I have ever seen – and I have seen a lot. In one decade, you have fixed 14 homes and we have fixed 600,” Debbie McCoy, from the “Concrete Queens Campaign in Connecticut” group told Eileen Magnier in an RTÉ news report during a group visit in 2021.
“I never ever thought I would be on the streets campaigning to ask the government to pay for my home, ever. Everyone else is the same. The bottom line for me is that what is unfolding in Donegal is a humanitarian crisis, it is not a financial crisis. We don’t particularly want to ask the Government to go and pay for this but it’s a failure of regulation, so the buck stops with them. And as it stands at the minute, nothing has changed in regulations. If it costs three billion, so be it.
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