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If you want best Test Drive The New STARLET results .... v ^ advertise in Ufa ' Dungarvan Leader and SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT Circulating throughout the County and City of Waterford, South Tipperary and South-East Cork For full particulars of rates, etc. HORNIBROOKS 'Phone 058/41203 REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL of LISMORE : Tel. 058/54147 Vol. 48 No. 2456 FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1986 POST OFFICE AS A NEWSPAPER PRICE 25p (inc. VAT) PENSMAN TAKES YOU Higher Education Please Support- Grants Discriminatory behind the SPOTLIGHT Says Councillor The manner in which Third grants system was now so The Charity Level Education grants were at riddled with flaws that many SHOULD REMAIN IN anxious to expand in the town present awarded were discrim- students were being denied the DUNGARVAN but find they are unable to do inatory and almost unconstitu- opportunity to carry on Into so. tional said cllr. James A. Walsh third level. "Those hit by this at the monthly meeting of Wa- Last week we carried a firont Agriculture Minister Deasy are mainly in the PAYE sector page story about the pleasure terford County council in Dun- and are consequently being dis- Fun Run is also a Dungarvan man and garvan last Monday. criminated against," he said. expressed by our Agriculture Adding that he believed the he should be able to wield Cllr. Walsh was moving a Minister Austin Deasy that the position to be almost unconsti- enough clout to keep this new motion in his name calling on tutional. Cllr. Walsh suggested IDA had approved grant assist- the Government to review its development in his home town that any Leaving Cert, students ance in the region of £250,000 funding of these grants and of whlite the County Manager and who scored 25 points or more SUNDAY, APRIL 27 third level education in general for the Dungarvan firm of should qualify for a third level the members of the County as a large section of students Casey Electronics for the manu- education grant irrespective of Development Team must also were now unable to avail of the parents income, otherwise facture of T.V. sets; that pro- third level education due to be seen to throw their weight there was a grave danger that duction should commence with- both being inadequate. He said behind Dungarvan's claim. a great deal of brain power that costs had escalated enor- in the next two months and would be lost to the country." CRATTAN SQUARE that eventually upwards o£ 25 We understand that the mously and college fees were rising at the rate of 10% per Ollr. B. Kyne who seconded jobs would be provided. matter will be raised at the annum and the situation had the motion said that he had What the Minister's state- monthly meeting of the Urban now been reached where only referred to this matter several DUNGARVAN r times at meetings of the Voca- ment did not say, either by Council next Monday n ,ght the very wealthy and those who at 2.30 p.m. accident or design, was that the and hope that the first positive qualified for full grants could tional Education Committee. and Tina Maguire, Cathal avail of third level education. People were being turned away new project was not to be steps towards keeping the Jerry Martin, Ballyduff Upper were married at the Parish He went on to say that the from third level education be- located in Dungarvan but that Casey development in Dungar- Brugha Place, Dungarvan, who cause of income limits which it was to be set up in an IDA van will result from this. Church, Dungarvan recently. (Photo by Kiely) was not right. "We now have a YOU MAY WALK, RUN society in which it would ap- factory in the industrial estate pear that third level education in Waterford City, thirty miles ECONOMY HIT BY TAX is the special right of the very away. This news came out sub- SYSTEM rich and I find that totally OR JOG THIS 4-MILE sequently and understandably wrong and unacceptable," he A few weeks ago we men- said. has greatly soured the Minis- Funds For Conference tioned the terribly detrimental Cllr. C- Casey supporting the COURSE FR^S ter's initial statement which effect which our current taxa- motion (which was passed) was taken to infer that the new tion system is having on the said that it was the PAYE sec- ALL YOU NEED DO IS BUY YOUR £1 TICKET development was to benefit economy af the country in tor which was largely funding AND PARTICIPATE. Dungarvan. Attending Running Low the educational system and he general and on ithe survival of felt that people in this cate- gory should at least be allowed Proceeds in aid of local St. Vincent dc Paul Funds. The Casey T.V. Company small! business concerns in par- ticular. We stated that the tax Members of waterford County Following the suggestion that get any reports about them," tax relief for the costs of third This advertisement sponsored by Central Dairies Ltd., has made giant strides since it Council at their monthly meet- the usual procedure of sending he added. level education in the years in Dungarvan. was first established .in Dungar- burdens were like millstones ing in Dungarvan last Monday 1-1 and 1 (F.G., F.F. and Lab.) Cllr. James A. Walsh said which they were incurred. van as a rental firm by Mr. around the necks of workers were told by the County Mana- should be followed, Cllr. W. Mc- that he was inclined to agree Sean Casey. Since then through and small business concerns ger, Mr. Dan Hurley, that the Donnell proposed that the num- that one delegate from each alike. funds available to pay the ex- ber of delegates to be sent on party (3 In all) would be suffi- his great initiative and the penses for Councillors attend- this occasion should be increas- cient to represent the Council. enterprise and expertise of other ing outside conferences and ed to six, or two from each But, he added that they should As if proof of this was needed seminars were running low and party. members of the Casey family, we find the Chairman of the not feel guilty about their at- AM I HERE AT ALL? cablevision was introduced to were now just under the limit tendance at these conferences Commission on Taxation, Dr. of the amount provided. It was then that the Co. Man- as the record of Waterford Co. ager made the comment above Dungarvan and district and Miriam Hederman O'Brien The Manager's comment Council was verv good. He said that if this were done the Coun- CLLR. BILLY KYNE, MCC, UDC later extended to Cork City. stating in Waterford over the came as the council was discus- that the members attending ASKS WATERFORD cil would be running out of would learn a lot of very rele- will be in attendance at the Union Office, O'Connell Street, week-end that the taxation sing a proposal to send three funds as they were just above The Casey Company was vant Information from them. delegates, one from each of the the limit set, now. Mr. Hurley Dungarvan, on this Friday, April 18, from 4 p.m. to always Dungarvan based and system here was doing harm to political parties, to a conference the economy and the commun- pointed out that it had been Cllr. Walsh then went on to 5.30 p.m. He is in attendance at the 'Union Office on they are now the first Irish firm on "Employment and Develop- agreed at the beginning of the CO. COUNCILLOR ity and was an impediment we ment" to be held In Tullamore say that he attended a confer- the first and third Friday of every month. to research, design and develop year that the accepted proce- ence lately and when he saw a colour T.V. set for which could not afford in these diffi- on April 29 and 30 next. dure where it was decided to at- so many representatives from Following the suspension of Standing Orders at the monthly most of the components will be cult rimes. She said that there tend a conference was to have other counties there compared was a duty on those who recog- one from each party. with the three from Waterford meeting of Waterford County of Irish manufacture. he then realised what a good council In Dungarvan last Mon- nised the shortcomings of the day. Fianna Pail Councillor Why. then, must this new SOUNDS LIKE MANURE rccord they had In this regard. present system to do what thev Paddy Oahiu said that as a development be transferred to Cllr. Sean F-ahey then stated Cllr. ~G O'Halloran said that citizen of Ireland he wished to Waterford city? We have been could to bring about change, YOUTHFUL that he was not at all happy there were 21 representatives make a protest as he was not unable to contact Mr. Casey whether through the blueprint about these conferences. Due at the conference from Cork given a census form to All up offered by the Commission or a to the economic circumstances while a number of midland for the 1986 Census taken on but know that he is on record that the Council now found it- counties had up to 20 each. the previous night. better alternative. "With only three delegates from as stating that he would have MOTORIST FINED self in he thought that a limit Cllr. Cahill who resides in should be put on the number Waterford there it showed how much preferred to set up the Dr.