At Tuesday’s Ennis Municipal District meeting, Director of Service Carmel Kirby revealed that the local authority has paused plans to demolish six properties on Francis Street in Ennis in the wake of a demonstration by the Francis Street Alliance and local community. Clare FM Journalist Peter O’Connell spoke to Carmel regarding the decision. She stated […]
Campaigners for the retention of six controversial houses in Ennis are calling for a full reversal of the Ennis 2040 plans to demolish the properties. It follows a meeting of the Ennis Municipal District, where elected members were informed that the local authority is to postpone the demolition of the properties. The decision to postpone […]
On Monday’s Morning Focus, Clare FM’s Daragh Dolan reported from the Francis Street Alliance March. A mass crowd of demonstrators departed from Glór car park on Saturday in an attempt to prevent the demolition of six houses in the county town to make way for a temporary car park under the Ennis 2040 plan. Daragh […]
Large crowds marched on Arás Chontae An Chláír this afternoon demanding the protection of six cottages on Francis Street in Ennis. The protest, organised by the Francis Street Alliance, is aiming to prevent the abolition of the houses in the county town, which are provisionally set to make way for a temporary car park under […]
A Clare disability activist insists it’s “outrageous” that houses are to be demolished in favour of a temporary car park, when people with disabilities are living in nursing homes and overcrowded family homes. It comes ahead of a demonstration in the county town tomorrow, calling for the homes to be repurposed for human habitation, particularly […]