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  • NEWS
  • Martin wades into abortion debate

    As the Dáil committee hearings continue on the abortion bill, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has waded into the debate saying it is important that Christian believers "be, and seen to be, on the side of life, especially when life is most vulnerable".

  • Payment cuts see families pay rent shortfall

    Limits on rent supplement payments set by the Government are forcing thousands of families to make undeclared top-up payments to landlords to secure places to live.

  • WORLD
  • Anger as North Korea launches another missile

    North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast, a day after launching three more of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said.

  • How Star Trek predicted the future

    WHEN Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first dreamed up the concept of a television show based in the unexplored universe of Outer Space in 1964, the world was a very different place.

  • BUSINESS
  • Warnings over future of eurozone

    The eurozone is heading towards a break up unless there are moves towards much closer political and fiscal union, according to chief economist with State Street Global Advisers, Chris Probyn.

  • Bruton defends corporate tax rate

    Ireland will be able to maintain its current corporation tax code in the face of international pressure to prevent multinational corporations avoid paying their fare share of tax, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton said yesterday.

  • SPORT
  • Mayo’s statement of intent

    Galway 0-11 Mayo 4-16 Five minutes to go in Salthill yesterday and James Horan was still cajoling his men to sew it into Galway.

  • Wilkinson inspires Toulon to glory

    ASM Clermont Auvergne 15 Toulon 16 Not for the first time this season, a matchday performance and the result have made a mockery of the statistics.

  • LIFESTYLE
  • What Lenny did next

    LENNY Abrahamson has directed three feature films: Adam & Paul, Garage and What Richard Did.

  • Clothes maketh you mad

    Trying on clothes, said Ewart, produced "sensations which bring deep peace and perfect contentment" to the female mind.





Stating facts on household charge

I am trying to find out how many local authority tenants registered for the household charge so they could be exempted from the charge?

I have good reason to believe these figures are being used as fact and added to the numbers that have ‘registered and paid’ when they have only just registered.

How many multiple properties under the one landlord are being counted as individual households when in fact they have only one owner? We all know how spin, confusion and misuse of facts are used to make a compelling argument.

So we can all see the true picture of the numbers, rightly refusing to pay for the same service twice.

Also, since they privatised the refuse collection how many taxpayers and rate-payers have received a refund in the post to go towards the private service they must now avail of?

There are 883 councillors and 34 councils that must be paid for yearly. All they do is pass budgets and bye-laws, show up to claim expenses/wages and that’s it for the year.

Please come out publicly and justify you are worth the expense and tell us what you do all year?

Emmet Murphy
Bawnmore
Kanturk
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