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Oct 12 2023
‘STOP THIS MAD DEVELOPMENT’ Business people and residents make noise with silent march by Páraic McMahon paraic@clareecho.ie
BY HOLDING one of the county’s first silent marches, Save Ennis Town upped the volume in their opposition to plans of the Ennis 2040 strategy to build on riverside car parks. Up to 200 people partook in a silent march from Abbey Street Car Park to the offices of Clare County Council where Ennis Mayor, Cllr Pat Daly (FF) was presented with a petition containing over 3,500 signatures opposed to plans to construct a development on Abbey Street car park as part of the strategy. Representatives of Save Ennis Town were optimistic their demonstration would prompt engagement with Ennis 2040 DAC Photo by Tom Micks
while a spokesperson for the DAC told The Clare Echo, “comprehensive public consultation” will be held “before any proposed development takes shape”. Gerry Connnellan of Abbey Newsagents told The Clare Echo, “we need to move on and stop this mad development from going ahead. We have to stop this at all costs, we have one white elephant in the Market and we’ve seen what it has done”. Chairman of Save Ennis Town, Gearoid Mannion said, “There is plenty in the Ennis 2040 plans that we agree with, we’re for progress in the town, we believe in the town and we believe in the future of the town, we’re very concerned about the car parks being basically obliterated”.