New CCTV plan to curb community crime

A NEW CCTV pilot project is being introduced in a housing estate in Clonmel in a bid to curb anti-social and criminal activity.

Tenders have been invited from security companies to develop the community- based CCTV scheme in the Elm Park estate, scene of a fatal house fire in April when a middle-aged woman lost her life in a suspected arson attack.

After that tragedy, it emerged that the victim, Ann Marie O’Neill, and her husband had asked the local council to close off a nearby laneway which was being used as a “get-away” route by local youths involved in anti-social behaviour.