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Search By Live95 News Team via Getty Images Limerick Councillor John Sheahan is defending the government s decision to hit another 100,000 households with property tax bills.
The property tax exemption for homes built since 2013 has been criticised by the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation with the timing described as crazy and bizarre.
The first bills will arrive early next year.
The Glin-based councillor says while there were good intentions behind the original exemption but it s no longer fair.
Money raised from the changed local property tax will stay locally and not be distributed to other counties, according to the Finance Minister.
A Fine Gael councillor called to a Limerick pensioner s home at night to confront him over a social media post and then later threatened to go to gardaí about it.
Councillor Liam Galvin told constituent Eamon Roche (70) of Abbeyfeale, west Limerick, he would go to gardaí and his solicitor over the man s post on Facebook.
It had criticised the councillor s and Fine Gael minister Patrick O Donovan s response after the flood defences and backyard terrace of Mr Roche s home were washed away by erosion from the River Feale.
Mr Galvin denied making such threats to Mr Roche but told the Sunday Independent: When I called to that house and when I sent that text message, all the social media posts stopped.