Payment of VAT on graves in newly developed graveyards is an unfair imposition on hard pressed communities, according to Clare’s Independent TD Dr. Michael Harty.
Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD outlined specific growth opportunities for Limerick and the wider region at a University of Limerick GAA breakfast briefing this week.
One Clare TD is hopeful a new Transition Lounge scheduled to open on the grounds of the University Hospital Limerick this week will go some way to alleviating the back log and overcrowding at the hospital’s emergency department.
Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Carey is enlisting the support of the three of the Government’s most senior Ministers in a bid to resolve some of the issues that have led to the reduction of Shannondoc services in East and West Clare.
JT McNamara, the Limerick jockey who died tragically in July from injuries sustained in a fall, was the posthumous recipient of the biennial Shannon Group Media Merit award at the Mid-West Press Ball at the weekend.