*Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien (FF) is shown the damage to Mary Hanley’s home in Drumline last August. Photograph: Joe Buckley CO CLARE has been included an expanded Defective Concrete Block Scheme.
*Veronica Griffin pointing to the cracking along the walls of her family home in Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Joe Buckley PYRITE’s presence in Clare has been proven “beyond reasonable doubt”, senior officials in the local authority have stated while confirming they are pushing to have the county included in the revised redress scheme with “immediate effect”.
*Mary Hanley shows the damage to her home in Drumline, Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Joe Buckley “IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE” of widespread pyrite in Co Clare has been detailed in a new report.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley CLARE IS suspected to be one of the worst affected counties in the country when it comes to pyrite.
CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL continued to try secure €8m in Government funding to advance a maritime training centre for a building in Kilrush without testing it for pyrite despite it showing signs of cracking.
*The home of Michelle and Steve Mansfield is among the worst affected in Clare. Photograph: Joe Buckley FRESH HURLDES have been thrown in the way of homeowners impacted by the presence of mica and pyrite.
*Dr Martina Cleary. Photograph: Joe Buckley CLARE PYRITE ACTION GROUP are to consider fielding a candidate in the next General Election.
*Protesters in Ennis on Saturday. Photograph: Joe Buckley CRUMBLING homes in Co Clare due to the presence of pyrite in concrete blocks has been labelled “a humanitarian crisis”.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley LIVES WILL BE LOST due to the defective concrete problem on the island of Ireland, activists have claimed.
BETWEEN 200 TO 300 Clare people protested along the streets of Ennis on Saturday as efforts to gain access to a defective blocks scheme intensifies for affected homeowners.
