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Clare TDs to face councillors

CLARE’S newly elected Oireachtas members are to be invited to the next meeting of Clare County Council, where councillors will put funding for the county’s roads “on the shopping list”. The council is also set to write to the Government seeking funding of €1.6 million towards maintaining the roads. This comes after councillors last month sought to raise a loan of the same amount from the Department of the Environment, with the council currently awaiting a decision. At this week’s council meeting, Councillor Christy Curtin urged that they request the Government to reactivate local road grant allocations. He commented that in the wake of the withdrawal of funding allocations for the Local Road Improvement Scheme and the suspension of the Community Involvement Scheme, people in rural Ireland “aren’t getting the benefits of other citizens”. Figures released by the council show that the Local Improvement Scheme funding dropped from €906,000 in 2009 and 2010 to €302,000 in 2011, the last time …

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Clare TDs asked to support fracking ban

National campaign group, Afri – Action From Ireland – is appealing to Clare TDs to follow the lead of the French government and work towards an immediate ban on fracking on the island of Ireland. “Clare Council Council has already called for a fracking ban and now it is important that we see Clare politicians speaking out, including deputies Pat Breen, Joe Carey, Timmy Dooley, Michael McNamara, and Senator Tony Muncahy,” said Joe Murray, Afri coordinator. County councils in Leitrim, Donegal, Sligo, Roscommon and Sligo have also passed motions calling for a ban, as has Omagh and Fermanagh District Council.  Their opposition to fracking is shared by well known figures including Paul McCartney, Robert Redford, Matt Damon, Adrian Dunbar, Yoko Ono and Alec Baldwin. Afri’s latest call comes amid growing protests in the border region where Australian mining company Tamboran Resources have begun preparatory drilling work in Belcoo, County Fermanagh. According to Joe Murray, fracking is a short-sighted solution to job creation and …

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