Hospital and volunteers resolve shelter row

Work will begin early next year on a €3.5m plan for a day care centre and sheltered housing for the elderly in Ennis.

It follows the resolution of a row between the Fr Harry Bohan-led board of Cahercalla Hospital and Hospice in, Ennis, and a local voluntary group, Cuan an Chlair.

The row over access to the proposed development held up the project for more than a year, and led to Cuan an Chlair missing out on an approved €2.1m grant for 2012 from the Department of Environment for 12 sheltered homes.