Election 2007 in County Wicklow

It looks like you might be a first time visitor here so you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting and please exercise your vote on polling dayElderly people in Wicklow/East Carlow are trapped in their homes because of
threats from burglars and Garda inactivity. That’s according to Independent
candidate Pat Doran.
“Elderly […]

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Evelyn Cawley Independent Candidate for Wicklow has called on the Government to implement the primary health care strategy by the provision of 24 hours local Health Care Clinic in major towns in Wicklow as well as an extension of the medical card system for all children in primary school.
“As one of the fastest growing counties […]

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Evelyn Cawley Independent Candidate for Wicklow has called for a review of the opening hours of local Gardai Stations in Wicklow. “We need this facility so that local people feel safe in their area and can deal with issues such as anti social behaviour which is mainly fuelled by alcohol misuse”.
“When meeting voters on the […]

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At an IFA meeting recently in Aughrim, Evelyn Cawley Independent Candidate for Wicklow called on the Department of Agriculture to simplify and relax the EU regulations regarding inspections and compliance for farmers. Farmers presently are subjected to unannounced calls by farm inspectors as well as completing a 66 page compliance checklist covering 1,450 different questions.
“This […]

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Party candidates in the upcoming election received a grilling from farmers at the IFA meeting in Aughrim on Monday, April 29. Lawless’s Hotel was the scene of the bloodbath with farmers venting their anger at the rising tide of bureaucracy and Labour’s controversial ‘freedom to roam’ proposal.
Pat Doran (Independent) and Andrew Doyle (Fine Gael) were […]

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The lives of people with special needs could be improved dramatically if the government introduced simple changes, according to Cllr. Pat Doran, who is running as an Independent candidate in East Carlow/Wicklow in the upcoming general election.
“Canvassing in the constituency recently, I met older people who were virtual prisoners in their own homes because a […]

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Young couples are being put under an unfair financial burden, because planning applications take so long in the county. “Because there’s a shortage of staff in the planning department of Wicklow County Council, couples have to rent houses while waiting up to three years for their planning application to be processed,” said Cllr. Pat Doran, […]

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I firmly believe that Wicklow needs an ambulance base located in south Wicklow - a modern state-of-the-art facility with fully-equipped ambulances and helicopter accessibility, says Independent candidate Pat Doran, who’s based in Carnew, south Wicklow. The ambulance crew should be able to treat patients on arrival and stabilise them for the trip to one of […]

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Counties Wicklow and Carlow were both ignored in the Government’s arts funding windfall. Neither county received a single euro of the €32 million doled out to 67 projects nationwide, said Cllr Pat Doran, an Independent candidate in the upcoming election.
The recent announcement by John O’Donoghue, T.D., Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, that funds under […]

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