e-metro.ie 04.02.2010 Metro Herald readers have voted for the Irish Cancer Charity as your Charity of the Year 2010. This means we will donate 80,000 worth of free advertising and provide editorial support to the Society throughout the year P13 news Charity is voted for by you The company behind a controversial Dublin incinerator may import waste from outside the capital to ensure the scheme is viable. Environment Minister John Gormley has ordered a second review of the contract covering the Poolbeg plant P6 news Incinerator to import waste Peter Andre broke down during a live TV interview when asked if he would mind if Alex Reid adopted his children with ex-wife Katie Price, whom Reid has just married P8 showbiz Andre in tears over children A DUBLIN City councillor yesterday admitted the new 30kmh city speed limit is stupid. Fine Gael councillor Gerry Breen spoke and voted against the proposal at the council meeting when it was approved by a shower of muppets, led by Labours Andrew Montague. I will not be associated with or take flak for this stupidity, he said. Over the past year, I have seen the cycling extremists take centre stage in the traffic affairs of the council. Their unstated aims seem to be removing all car traffic from the city. Seemingly everything these days can be run un- der the guise of health and safety. It is important councillors take into account all the interested parties and stakeholders in coming to decisions and this speed limit in my opinion is neither fair or balanced. I will seek to have it reversed, said Cllr Breen. The controversial speed limit, pro- posed at a Dublin City Council meet- ing on October 5, took just 30 minutes of discussion before it was passed, a minute for every kilometre motorists are permitted to drive per hour. During the meeting, 34 councillors voted in favour; only three Cllr Breen, fellow Fine Gael councillor Bill Tormey and Independent Nial Ring voted against. However, according to Cllr Ring, everybody jumped on the slow mov- ing bandwagon once they heard the public outcry. He said traffic on the quays was a nightmare since the limit came into force, as motorists could not go above third gear, while the promise of a free run of green lights he described as a red herring. Cllr Ring said the Fine Gael group brought an emergency motion at a meeting last Monday calling for the new limit to be lifted pending an ex- amination of the reasons for, and steps which led to this decision. But he added they voted for the scheme in October. So why do they need an examination of it? Does that mean they werent paying attention? he asked. By Ross McDonagh Muppets voted for 30kmh limit Ears a bunny story about a rabbit... see P12 What the X is this in outer space? IS IT a comet? Is it a meteor? Or is it debris from a freak asteroid collision? Despite Nasa normally being really good at naming things, this solar system-swoosher has only been identified as P/2010 A2. It was spotted between Mars and Jupiter and this dramatic picture was taken by the Hubble telescope. With its 140m (460ft) nucleus offset from the centre of its bizarrely X-shaped tail, leading astrophysicists are baffled. It is unlike any object ever seen before, said Nasas Dr Robert J Nemiroff. Its getting like Vanessa Perroncels bedroom in here index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html