Grave ruling ‘heavy handed’

AN APPEAL by the Department of the Environment against a Clare community’s decision to build a graveyard extension on the outskirts of Ennis “is unwarranted and heavy handed”.

That is the view of Green party councillor Brian Meaney who said the appeal by the department against the Templemaley graveyard extension “takes no account of the pressures on the Parish of Doora-Barefield to provide space for people in that part of the Parish to bury their dead”.

Last month, Clare County Council gave the plan the go-ahead with the department the only party to appeal to An Bord Pleanála.