Bord na Móna - Source Issue 11 - (Page 20)
STATS CARD
NAME:
Harry Doyle
OCCUPATION:
Maintenance fitter
DEPARTMENT:
PowerGen
FAMILY:
Wife Phyllis. Daughters Niamh, Linda,
Frances. Son John
HOME TOWN:
Allen, Co. Kildare
GAME ON
HARRY DOYLE ENJOYS WORKING IN
EDENDERRY POWER BUT HIS REAL
PASSION IS FOOTBALL. NO SURPRISE
THEN THAT HE DIDN’T HANG UP HIS
BOOTS UNTIL HE WAS 52!
Q
Q
What does your job in
Bord na Móna entail?
I’m a maintenance fitter at Edenderry Power.
I came here initially with Fortum Engineering
[the Finnish contractor] that built the plant
– I worked with them for five or six years.
They were big into worker participation
and empowerment and innovative systems,
so it was a good project to work on in a
greenfield site.
Where else did you work
before Bord na Móna?
I started my apprenticeship in 1968 with the
ESB at Allenwood Power Station. After my
apprenticeship finished, I got a permanent
job in Poolbeg. Then I moved to Roadstone.
That was a complete change of scenery,
working with sand, gravel, and cement. Then
I worked in a new Black & Decker factory
20 | Source Spring 2013
in Kildare – another greenfield, turnkey
operation with new innovative systems.
Q
Are you positive about the
future at work?
Edenderry Power is still producing 120MW
of electricity and there’s a peaking plant here
now and wind farms, so that’s all positive
for the future. The key word is ‘jobs’ today
and people are concerned about the loss of
the PSO [Public Service Obligation] license
in 2015. Peat has been a great servant to
families in the Midlands, but the future of
Edenderry is biomass, so if we don’t go
down that road, we’re going down no road.
Change can be difficult. People have
to be flexible, that’s how we’re going
to survive. My job has changed since I
served my time, but if you get the basic
core skills in training, you’ll have them all
your life and be able to adapt them.
Q
What interests do you have
outside work?
I was born in Lowtown, Co. Kildare – it’s
the 19th lock on the Grand Canal and the
highest level on the Grand Canal – and I
was always mad keen on football. When I
worked with ESB, there were two industrial
championships: the Factory League and the
ESB Championship. I played with Allenwood,
Rhode & Portarlington – we had eight
inter-county players who used to play with
Laois, Kildare and Offaly. We won the ESB
Championship twice – there was great rivalry
between plants and it was great to play
against lads you’d have read about in the
newspapers. You’d be keeping an eye on
those players, looking at their style of play
and seeing if you could spot any weaknesses.
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Bord na Móna - Source Issue 11
Bord na Móna - Source Issue 11
Contents
News From
Crisis Management
Midland Power
Clean Energy Future
The Need for Change
The Gathering
Game On
Developments In
Heritage Corner
A Nationwide Spotlight
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