Galway Advertiser 1999/1999_06_10/GA_10061999_E1_016.pdf 

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Call to stem Oranmore urban sprawl
by Keith Kelly LOCAL ELECTION candidate for the Oranmore Electoral Area Tim Rabbitt is calling on the Galway County Council to draw up a development plan for the area to avoid the problem of suburban sprawl in the area. He says he is pro-development for the area, but says experienced at Carnmore Cross, particularly at peak this must go hand in hand with sporting and leisure periods - the road is one of the main approach roads to amenities and green spaces for public use and not just for G a l w a y airport, and serves A t h e n r y , Monivea, and development. Turloughmore. "The Galway County Council is a body with powers to T h e road also links to the industrial east side of ensure that development takes place in a satisfactory Galway city where thousands of people work with such fashion and we must ensure that those powers are used companies as APC, Nortel, Bard, Digital, and Thermo for the public good. King. "It is also essential that no development is allowed to 'There are no warning signs to alert motorists to either decimate the natural habitats which are an outstanding the delays or the dangers. The roads have no public feature of the outlying rural areas of Oranmore," Rabbitt lighting which adds to the hazards on dark evenings and said. mornings for both motorists and pedestrians. He b e l i e v e s the c o u n t y c o u n c i l s h o u l d c o n s i d e r "I am making traffic safety in the Oranmore Electoral d r a w i n g up a five year plan to p r o v i d e for critical Area a major p r i o r i t y of m i n e and of my election services and amenities for the area which is showing campaign, and I promise that it will be the hallmark of phenomenal residential growth over recent years. my term of office if elected," he said. Rabbitt has also hit out at the traffic chaos being

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Candidate cannot vote for herself
SPARE A thought for Progressive Democrat candidate for the West Ward Antoinette Glynn. As all the other candidates go to the polls tomorrow, secure in the knowledge they will at least have one vote, an accident of fate has meant she will be denied the privilege of voting for herself. T h e p r o j e c t e n g i n e e r , lines has meant neither she who only entered the race nor her family will be able relatively late, is registered to vote for her. to vote in the South Ward She is unperturbed - one and will t o m o r r o w be of the youngest candidates f a c i n g a p o l l i n g c a r d in t h e r a c e , she is without her own name. appealing to other young Despite living most of people to make their voice her life in the West Ward, heard - "bad governments the re-drawing of and bad corporations are constituency boundary elected by good people who do not vote," she says. voting for - "oh, for Donal "We only realised very Lyons and Paul Colleran, r e c e n t l y that I and my of c o u r s e - they are old family will not be able to friends," she says. vote for me - but we are Of course, for g e t t i n g a very p o s i t i v e c a n d i d a t e s in the South response from people on Ward, and with only a few the door steps, and people more canvassing hours to s e e m very in f a v o u r of g o , it d o e s mean there seeing some change in the could be a potential third c o u n c i l c h a m b e r , " s h e or fourth preference vote says; with Antoinette - if you S o w h o will s h e be play your cards right.

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Cladnach, An Cheathru Rua, Co na Gaillimhe Tel/Faxs 091-572140 PIERCE 0'MALLEY (0'MAILLE) Station Rd, Oughterard, Co Galway. Tel 091-552493

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