Septic Tank registration deadline is today!
On Friday’s Morning Focus with John Cooke Paul Moroney, Senior Engineer at the Environment Department of Clare County Council. explained.
CLare has a compliance rate of 70%
Only those who pay the €50 registration fee before the deadline will be entitled to apply for grant aid on any remedial works that are required on their systems
Houses will also need to be registered in order to be sold. The Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, has also stated that houses that do not register will be more likely to be inspected
Over 300,000 households, or 60pc of the total according to CSO figures, have registered their tanks so far.
From today, all cigarette packets produced for the Irish market will carry graphic photographs with a strong health warning.
The images depict the negative health impacts associated with smoking.
The warnings follow other legislative measures to tackle smoking in recent years, including the ban on the display and advertising of tobacco products in shops.
Minister for Health James Reilly said he hopes the pictures will shock smokers into quitting and prevent young people from taking up the habit
Chris Massey, Head of Advocacy at the Irish Heart Foundation, discussed the new warnings.
Gardaí are trying to establish if a property developer who was found wandering on the side of the road in Co Leitrim earlier this week was kidnapped and held north of the border.
Kevin Michael McGeever was reported missing in Gort in Co. Galway last June.
When found on Tuesday, the 68 year old was dishevelled, had lost a lot of weight and had an insult carved into his forehead.
He has told Gardaí he was abducted eight months ago
Donegal based journalist Paddy Clancy of Clancy News Services who is covering the story spoke with John Cooke.
In our Morning Focus health slot we speak with Dr Maire Finn of the Ennis Family Medical Centre
Today Dr Finn joined John in studio to discuss Sinus problems
Doctor Maire Finn is from the Ennis Family Medical Centre, and will be joining us again next Friday for more medical advice. You can always send us your thoughts and queries by email [email protected], but if you have concerns or queries about your own health right now please contact your local GP
Next Friday Dr Finn will discuss smoking!
Clare Fracking Concerned are organising fracking seminar ‘The Truth about Clare Shale – the geological perspective on fracking in Clare’ taking place at the Stella Maris Hotel, Kilkee Sunday at 7.30-9.30pm
Three eminent geologists are making the trip to share their thoughts on the Clare shale with locals who are becoming
increasingly concerned about the prospect of fracking coming to their area
Professor Geoffrey Clayton of the Department of Geology at Trinity College Dublin is one of the experts speaking in Kilkee- he joined John on the line.
Prof Clayton’s address is on the ‘Thermal History of the Clare Basin’
Six Clare communities are taking part in a pilot project aimed at linking up with people of Clare heritage leaving outside of Ireland
The Clare Ireland Reaching Out (IRO) Project is being rolled out on a pilot basis in Tulla, Kilrush, Ballyvaughan, Clarecastle/Ballyea, Kildysart and Kilmaley
The government-sponsored initiative is a reverse genealogy project, which instead of waiting for Irish Diaspora to trace their roots, sees communities or parishes proactively search for people with roots in their areas
An eight week training program to assist in this has now begun, and other parishes will likely be given the opportunity to take part later this year
John spoke with two participants Eric Shaw from Clarecastle and Clare Roots Society member and Tom McNamara of Kilmaley Meitheal
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