OPW work at historic friary is condemned

CONSERVATION work by the OPW on historic Ennis Friary has been described as “the mutilation of one of the country’s most important national monuments”.

Author of acclaimed history of the Famine in Clare, Sable Wings over the Land, historian Dr Ciarán Ó Murchadha hit out at the OPW works, describing the so-called secretive restoration as “the Disneyfication of the old friary ruin in Ennis”.

Works were due to be completed on the €100,000 project in 2010.