Efforts are to be made to re-open Tramore’s recycling centre, adjacent to the old town dump for a day or day and a half per week. At the Town Council’s monthly meeting Cllr Blaise Hannigan raised the subject, emphasising the importance of the facility for the county’s largest town and a major tourism centre. The...
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FG councillors at loggerheads
FG councillors at loggerheads
At Tramore Town Council’s May meeting, Maxine Keoghan got both barrels from her Fine Gael party colleague Ann Marie Power, angered by her persistence in publicly airing concerns over water quality issues and thereby generating negative publicity for the resort. Cllr Keoghan had been assured by Town Manager...
Tramore Council staff ‘stretched’
Tramore Council staff ‘stretched’
Down a hundred in number due to the government’s recruitment embargo, Waterford County Council’s already stretched outdoor staff must be deployed to do the most urgent work, Tramore Manager Brian White told the May meeting of the local Town Council. He was responding to queries from Cllrs Joe Conway and Tom Raine as...
‘Don’t blame us for frozen pipes’ – Council
‘Don’t blame us for frozen pipes’ – Council
Tramore housing estate residents recently left without water due to frozen supply pipes are on the wrong tack in blaming the County Council, according to Town Manager Brian White. While sympathising with those affected in newer estates, he pointed out at the Town Council’s January meeting that where the estates had...
Rates gesture to Tramore commercial sector
Rates gesture to Tramore commercial sector
Tramore Town Council has sent a signal of encouragement to the resort’s hard pressed business sector by reducing the local commercial rate by 30 pc – from €3.37 to €2.36 in the €. But Town Manager Brian White was at pains to emphasise at the Council’s annual budget meeting that the reduction applied only to the town...
Community Radio planned for Tramore
Community Radio planned for Tramore
Plans for the launch of Tramore Community Radio were announced at the December meeting of the local Town Council which was addressed by two men behind the venture, Mark Graham and Garrett Wyse. They said the non-profit station would be community owned, led and focused, fostering all good things local. It would give...
County Librarian to retire
County Librarian to retire
County Librarian Mr Donald Brady, who has also been Tramore’s Deputy Town Manager for the past five years, has notified the Mayor of Tramore, Cllr Pat O’Callaghan, of his impending retirement at year’s end. He did so in a letter in which he spoke in glowing terms of the town and its public representatives and said he...
Tramore’s new school: here’s looking at 2013?
Tramore’s new school: here’s looking at 2013?
It would appear that Tramore’s new unisex secondary school may not be built until the end of 2012. Waterford Fine Gael TD John Deasy tabled a Dáil question last week seeking the up-to-date position vis-à-vis the proposed amalgamation of the CBS and Stella Maris, the tendering process involved, and the estimated...
Rancour over Tramore Mayoral pact rumbles on
Rancour over Tramore Mayoral pact rumbles on
Tension among Tramore’s Town Councillors is set to linger over the summer after stern words were again exchanged regarding the Fine Gael/Labour pact which one Councillor described as ‘a breach of faith’. Speaking at last week’s Council meeting, Fine Gael’s Anne Marie Power launched a stinging...
Tramore Town Council Briefs
Tramore Town Council Briefs
Council’s prioritised work programme: Tramore Town Council has committed itself to seven sets of approved works for the rest of the year, which has been prioritised in the following order: 1: Waterford Road, 2: Old Crobally Road, 3: Seaview, 4: Church Road, 5: Roselawn, 6: Sweetbriar and 7: Main Street. Work is...
Councillor’s concern over likely location of Welsh nuclear plant
Councillor’s concern over likely location of Welsh nuclear plant
Last week’s announcement by the British Government that they are likely to build a new nuclear plant on the Wylfa peninsula in Wales will give no comfort to people living in the east and southeast of Ireland, according to Tramore Town Councillor Joe Conway. The proposed site, about 70 miles east of our...
Town Council candidates quit Fianna Fáil
Town Council candidates quit Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fail in the Tramore electoral area has been thrown into disarray with the loss of two of its four nominees for the Town Council elections. Not only will Blaise Hannigan and Pat Finnerty now stand as Independents for the Town Council but also for the County Council, both aggrieved that having sought nominations...