Council out of pocket by €100k as builder goes bust

A local authority is almost €100,000 out of pocket over a fruitless pursuit for cash spent on repairing the roof of its €25m base in Ennis.

The headquarters were built by developer Bernard McNamara’s Michael McNamara & Co.

In a report, a senior Clare County Council official has confirmed that the cash is “deemed irrecoverable arising from the fact that the building contractors are in receivership”.