Residents of a Tramore housing estate mounted a protest this week as Council crews resumed work on the new Riverstown Relief Road being built on their doorsteps. The route will run from the Prom to ‘Somerville’, an estate of nearly 200 houses situated off the first roundabout on the main Waterford road entrance to...
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Tramore Council tackles Minister and IDA on jobs
Tramore Council tackles Minister and IDA on jobs
Tramore Town Council is to remind the government and the IDA that the resort has a business park which is available for use. It is also to challenge Enterprise Minister Batt O’Keeffe as to what pressure he is applying in the search for jobs for the town. A motion on the subject was tabled at the Council’s...
Tramore climbs record nine points
Tramore climbs record nine points
The 2010 National Tidy Towns Competition results revealed a very successful leap of nine points for Tramore Town; this is a record year on year figure increase the previous highest ever achieved in the town was 5 points in 1996. Tramore was awarded 258 points gaining merit in sections Overall development approach,...
Tramore Coastguard Station in ‘awful state’
Tramore Coastguard Station in ‘awful state’
Scarcity of County Council resources is impacting on the state of Tramore’s Coastguard Station, which was only restored at a cost to the taxpayer of €3.5m just six years ago. That was made clear at Tramore Town Council’s meeting on Tuesday night when Cllr Tom Raine (FG) drew attention to the deteriorating condition...
Tramore Council wants people up at 6am to put out refuse sacks
Tramore Council wants people up at 6am to put out refuse sacks
A Tramore Town Councillor wants householders to get up early and leave out their recycling bags for collection, rather than doing so the previous night. Cllr Pat Finnerty wants the County Council to adopt a bye-law prohibiting the bags being left out overnight. And furthermore he wants the bags removed again if the...
Ann Marie and Pat clash over Youth Café cash
Ann Marie and Pat clash over Youth Café cash
Tramore Town Councillor Pat Finnerty is convinced the method by which government funding is being sought to keep the local Youth Café operational is all wrong. And when the subject was debated at the Council’s January meeting he pointed to Waterford City as an example of how to get financial backing for youth...
Concern over Tramore Road flood relief
Concern over Tramore Road flood relief
Waterford City Council Director of Services Mr Fergus Galvin has been asked by Tramore Town Council to address its January meeting on the subject of the Tramore Road flood relief scheme the city authority is undertaking. A letter from Mr Galvin, read at the Town Council’s December meeting, confirmed that a contractor...
Tramore Councillor, Tom Raine, wants school tender passed and spending to start
Tramore Councillor, Tom Raine, wants school tender passed and spending to start
Ireland’s youngest councillor reckons that the process of four years is far too slow and overly delays, a worthwhile project like the Tramore secondary school. With less than a month to go until the end of the year the Department of Education is yet to spend over a quarter of their budget. The department was...
Closure of Strand Street toilet outrages Tramore Councillor
Closure of Strand Street toilet outrages Tramore Councillor
The closure of the public toilet on Tramore’s Strand Street for the majority of the month of June was unacceptable in Councillor Maxine Keoghan’s (Fine Gael) view and left her outraged. Speaking at last week’s meeting of Tramore Town Council, Cllr Keoghan referred to several “unfortunate...
Tramore petition protest over local Mayoral election
Tramore petition protest over local Mayoral election
A group of people from Tramore were so outraged by local Councillors “backtracking” on an agreement regarding the method of electing a Town Mayor that they have established a protest petition. Placed in three shops in the town last Friday, one of the lists “disappeared” in the interim, but by...
Joe envisages Fine Gael/Labour divide
Joe envisages Fine Gael/Labour divide
Having initially been cast as a potential kingmaker, Tramore independent Joe Conway concedes that today’s Waterford County Council ‘power-sharing’ vote looks a fait accompli. Earlier this week both Tramore and Dungarvan Town Councils elected new mayors based upon Fine Gael-Labour pacts. As reported...
Gormley visits Tramore and Waterford
Gormley visits Tramore and Waterford
John Gormley the Minister for the Environment was in Tramore last week to meet with representatives of the Gael Scoil. They proposed to him a unique type of school building that was environmentally friendly and would eliminate the cost of ongoing rental of pre fabs that would rise to nearly 80,000 euro per year soon....