The Clare Echo 07/12/23

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Dec 7 2023

MAN ABOUT TOWN

‘Stinks of a State cover-up’ by Páraic McMahon paraic@clareecho.ie

l The Ennis Street fashion show models, Janice Hayes, Eve Donovan and Aine Dwan wearing Trisha’s Closet had to share the catwalk with DPD delivery man Damian McCormack as O’Connell Street turned into an outdoor runway last Saturday

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A STATE COVER-UP has kept vital evidence from the inquest into the death of Caitriona Lucas, a Clare TD has suggested. At an inquest into the death of the Doolin Coast Guard volunteer last week, a verdict of death by misadventure was returned by the jury. Caitriona died after the Kilkee Coast Guard Delta rigid inflatable boat she was in capsized during a search for a missing man on September 12, 2016. Speaking in the

Dáil, Michael McNamara TD (IND) said the case “contained a number of disturbing features” and believed both the Irish Coast Guard and Department of Transport still had a lot of questions to answer. Deputy McNamara stated, “When you’re around a while you begin to recognise a cover-up and a State cover-up has a particular whiff, this stinks”. He called on the Taoiseach to initiate a statutory inquiry, “Will you organise a statutory inquiry into the death of Caitriona Lucas to make sure this never happens to another volunteer in Ireland”.


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