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CONTRACTS for two Kilrush projects, on which a total of €429,000 will be spent, have been agreed by Kilrush Town Council. The total cost of phase one of the all weather pitch on the Cooraclare road will be in excess of €309,000, while Cappa playground will cost €120,000. In a statement Kilrush Town Council, which ceases to operate this week, said that the astro turf contract will be undertaken by Sportslawn Ireland Limited and that it is expected that it will be completed by early July. Kilrush Town Council has secured a grant of €59,000 under the Sportnation programme, funded jointly by the Department of Transport, Sport and Tourism and Irish Public Bodies. Clare County Council are providing an allocation of €60,000 towards the development with the balance of funding provided by Kilrush Town Council. It will comprise of an artificial playing surface of 75m x 38m together with CCTV, floodlighting and security fencing. “It will be a multi purpose …

SEVERAL TDs who attended the Mid-West meeting of general practitioners in Limerick last night said that they would not sign the proposed new contract, which has been offered to GPs,  if they were in practice themselves. This was outlined in statement isssued by the National Association of General Practitioners on Tuesday evening. Limerick TD Willie O’Dea said that nobody could contemplate signing a contract, which contained a ‘gagging’ clause. The deputy said the contract was more onerous than the one in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, which demanded a ‘pound of flesh’. The meeting was held as part of an on-going series of meetings that are being held across the country to highlight the opposition of GPs, not just to the new contract, but the on-going FEMPI cuts which are causing a crisis in general practice. The chair of the meeting, Dr Conor McGee, said that the on-going FEMPI cuts were discriminatory and affected elderly and more isolated people disproportionately. This …