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Dunganuan Ukmcmy m FABRIC & WOOL ////// O'CONNELL STREET, HORNIBROOKS DUNGARVAN UNREPEATABLE Dungarvan Deader PRICES mmr and SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT NOW AVAILABLE ON FOR ALL WOOLS Circulating throughout the County and City of Waterford, South Tipperary and South-East Cork TOYOTA Vol. 49. No. 2534. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1987. PRICE 25p (inc. VAT) PENSMAN TAKES YOU Councillors Sharply Divided On Disc LIGHT NEEDED AT ed revenue while Cllr Tony CONGRESS VILLAS Wright said he too would fav- our the discs but would like to see some concessions for the business community, and for RIGHT OF WAY IT MUST BE HA1RSH1RTS Parking Recommendations sions was raised in the Dail last workers whose employers do FOR ALL week it has been revealed that not provide car parking facili- Speaking under any other business at last Monday nights President Hillery, currently paid Members of Dungarvan Urban town where one and two hour both of the car parks at Dav- backlash and they would also ties. Following t!he massive cut- Council are sharply divided on parking restrictions presently itt's Quay and Friary Street be a positive threat to shop- meeting of Dungarvan Urban over £60,000 a year as Head of Cllr. Wright said he would backs in the financial alloca- a recommendation from County apply. to be free of charge and exempt ping in the town," said Cllr. not support free parking in District Council. Cllr. Paddy Power stressed the urgent need tions- in the Departments of State in salary and expenses has Manager Mr. D. Hurley that Mr. Hurley ls recommending from any time limitations. He Kyne. their car parks which had cost renounced an annual pension ol Cork-style disc pay parking be has estimated that the disc substantial sums to develop. for a light to be erected at "he Health and Local Government the pay parking in the central Cllr. Austin Hallahan, him- right of way between Congress £9,000 payable to 'him as a for- introduced in the areas of the streets but wants parking in parking could yield the UDC self a leading member of the Cllr. Michael O'Riordan also since the begimnting of the year up to £50,000 year. Villas and Springfield. mer Fianna Fail Minister. The a business community, also op- expressed concern about people which have been marked by who may have to park their This area was very dark Cllr. The two Labour members of posed the recommendations many hospital closures and a President made this decision and said Dungarvan isn't a big vehicles outside their own pre- Power said and because it, was the Council. Cllrs Billy Kyne very much used It should be drastic reduction in the level of last year without any publicity enough town to sustain street mises in areas where pay disc and Paddy Power, told last parking applied. Some conces- put high on the priority list for public services, further massive fanfare and got around any Monday's meeting that having disc parking. the erection of a light at the administrative snags by re- sion should be given to them, cuts totalang £485 million were carefully considered all the He suggested that the car he said. spot. "pros and cons" they must op- announced1 last week. The re- questing that the pension money WEDDING BELLS parks should be made available Mr. D. McCarthy, Town En- be made a "gift to the Minister pose the Manager's recommen- free of charge and the rate- It wa,s finally decided to de- gineer, told Cllr. Power that sult now is that not one of tihe dations which they insisted fer a decision on the disc park- for Finance" referring the pay- payers would pay the cost of the issue could be considered State Departments escapes the would do a grave disservice to their development through the ing proposal to the November at. the Council's Estimates axe and iin many instances ment back to the Exchequer. the business community. rates over a number of years. meeting. "Clearly we are sharp- meeting. ly divided on the issue," the several State Agencies employ- On Tuesday last when the Cllr. Nuala Ryan said pay "I could see the recommenda- disc parking seemed t.o be a chairman Cllr. Richard A. YELLOW LINES ing large numbers are to be Dail discussed the latest massive tions creating a major public Walsh commented. cutbacks, the Taoiseach, Mr. good way to collect badly need- Cllr. Power also raised the totally scrapped. question of the need ior yellow Haughey stated that the Govern- lines when he spoke of the Without doubt the govern- ment had no alternative to problems created by cars being ment has introduced the era of these spending cuts. This of parked adjacent to the public the haiilrshirt and the various course confirms the hairshirt toilets at the Quay. Ministers and indeed most poli- regime for the next year or Councillor Fails To Ban The Town Engineer said this had already been recommended ticians have been talking about even two. But, and this is the problem — if problem it is — in a recent report made by the the need for us to tighten our crunch, point: it should not just Members and officials of The final word on the matter County Manager and which belts. We have been preaching be hairshirts for poor John Dungarvan Urban Council rested with the Council veteran, would come before the Council the need for this Ln this column Citizen but for all, including who enjoy a cigarette will be Cllr. Declan Goode: 'T have for consideration at a later able to continue to puff their Smoking been a heavy smoker for fifty date. for years and as a result we Government Ministers and ail way happily through future years," he said, "but gave them have been branded as a cynic. members of the Oireachtas who meetings. At Monday night's meeting a un three months ago." We were advising t'he need for should give the lead by cutting move by the Workers Party would be to reshuffle the seat- member. Cllr. Tony Wright to caution ten years ago when back all the hidden perks, ex- ing so that the smoking coun- introduce a smoking ban at all cillors could all be seated at things were flying high and penses and allowances includ- future meetings ran into a bar- the same end of the chamber. there was no shortage of ing these unjustified pensions rage of opposition and his pro- NOT GIVE UP posal failed to get a seconder. NEW APPOINTMENT borrowed money to pay for "la which the country can no Cllr. Nuala Ryan said that as dolce vita." The sorry mess we "As a non smoker I resent Longer economically afford to WINTER TIME being a passive smoker through a smoker she was not going to Allied Irish Bank have recent- hav Cllr. Wright acting as her are in to-day has resulted from pay. In accordance with the having to inhale other peoples fi ly announced the appointment this mid-70's spree and it was provisions of the Standard smoke," said Cllr. Wright. Call- doctor. "I will not give up smok- of Mr. Harry Gleeson to the President Hillery found a Time (Amendment) Act,' ing for a complete ban OQ ing just to please him." she position of Officer at the local the same people who are now added. about to provide us all with way of renouncing his Minis- j 1971, as varied by the Wintei smoking at future meetings, he Branch. Time Order, 1982, Winter said he would not have any ob- The chairman Cllr. Richard h'a'irshirts who were responsible terial pension; Deputies O'Mal- Time will commence at 2 jection to adjourning the meet- A. Walsh said that while he is for that "spend now pay later" ley and Molloy have signified a.m. Greenwich mean time ing every half hour or hour for a non-smoker he did not believe "their intentions of doing like- on Sunday. October 25, 1987 a brief spell to enable members smoking in a chamber the size policy of the '70's. of theirs could adversely affect j wise. There is nothing to stop to have a smoke — outside the But leaving that apart we do All clocks and time pieces chamber. any member those others who are drawing will, therefore, go back onr adimit that t'he time has at last Cllr. Austin Hallahan came these pensions from doing like- hour at that time or to be Cllr. Michael O'Riordan. who up with the suggestion of in- come for the country to cut its is seated alongside Cllr. Wright wise. pn the safe side do it before stalling an- air extractor and it cloth according to its measure. -1 Y'yon. retire on Saturday .night at the- meetings- and is a wa n agre-ed to consider that smoker said one way out of the The time" has come to' cut oul WE WERE MISSING suggestion (not back) all luxury spending and to pare and prune all Last week we were, for the unnecessary expenditures. But first time in a long time, miss- if the hairshirt fashion is to be ing from our usual position here introduced it must be hairshirts on the front page. The reason was that we were hors de Crystal Redundancy Deal for all - not just for us and not for the politicians. combat following a traffic acci- dent from which luckily and pubs ar.d hotels around Dun- In recent weeks we have been | garvan and in the city directing the spotlight on the' providentially, we escaped with little damage.