Our community is only looking for co-operation
I am both a resident and employer in Sneem and was present for the full two hours of the meeting that prompted the article.
The meeting, an AGM of the Sneem/Castlecove/Caherdaniel IRD Company (SCCIRD), broached quite a number of subjects aimed at the betterment of the three communities concerned and included some frank debates on the future of such small rural communities.
The proposed housing developments in the village were a small but significant aspect of those discussions but Ms Lucey’s words paint an entirely different picture of proceedings.
The garden of the senses is under no threat whatsoever and this particular line of suggestion hides the true underlying feelings within the communities regarding development.
The majority of those present at the AGM were in agreement that progress should and would come but not at a price we could ill afford.
The people of Sneem, and in particular the FÁS community workers, were responsible for the building of the garden of the senses and if we are to believe Ms Lucey’s article those same people were now set to destroy it.
Poppycock!
In her article, Ms Lucey went on to state that there had been calls for sewerage and water services for Sneem to facilitate developments and that SCC IRD were supporting the developer’s plans.
The campaign for a working sewerage system in the village, not an improved one, has been a vehement call for many years and long before the IRD came into existence.
The IRD had in their endeavours addressed one subject and one subject only and that was to bring together the developers and Kerry County Council in the hope that the result would lead to the installation of a new system in the village.
In no way whatsoever were they condoning or even encouraging the developments, but merely trying to bring together the two parties that would eventually make the necessary decisions.
That ploy has worked to perfection and the process was so ground-breaking that the council are now seriously considering adopting it as policy.
William J McClure ACWA,
Lomanagh North,
Sneem,
Co Kerry.
