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Housing issue leading to staff shortages in Shannon by Páraic McMahon paraic@clareecho.ie
“THE lack of housing is having too big of an impact to be ignored,” the President of Shannon Chamber has told the Minister for Housing. 87% of companies attached to Shannon Chamber have said the lack of housing is a having “a significant impact” when it comes to recruiting staff and future investment. This statistic was read aloud by Shannon Chamber President Eoin Gavin when addressing the Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien (FF) in Dromoland Castle. Ireland’s “housing crisis and infrastructure prob-
lems represent a risk to investment,” the Sixmilebridge haulier stated. Meanwhile the Minister has put pressure on Clare County Council to submit applications for affordable housing schemes in the county. Responding to queries from The Clare Echo on the lack of housing options available to persons living in the fifty plus towns and villages in Clare that are without adequate wastewater infrastructure, the Minister said the current housing climate was “still difficult for younger people and not so young people but it is improving”.
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l Darragh O’Brien, TD, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage at Dromoland Castle on Friday Photo by Eamon Ward
Inquiry into death of teen girl in UHL by Páraic McMahon
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ANOTHER INQUIRY is underway at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) following the death of a sixteen year old girl. There were 113 patients on trolleys in corridors and wards at the hospital on January 29th, the day the girl died. It is understood that the girl is from Co Limerick.
It is the second internal inquiry into the death of a teenage girl at UHL in as many years. Shannon’s Aoife Johnston who developed meningitis, died after waiting on a trolley in UHL’s emergency department for twelve hours in December 2022.
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