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Carn Chamber launch first report
18.02.09
Chamber Committee
appointed following meetings last week
by Simon McGeady, Inishowen
Independent
AGAINST the backdrop of the most difficult trading
conditions since the late 1980s at least, the
Carndonagh Chamber launched their first ever report
last week.
A general blueprint for the future development of
the town, the seven-part document is a distillation
of opinions expressed at the Chamber’s public
meeting held at the end of last year. The Inaugural
Carndonagh Chamber committee was also appointed last
week.
Hosting the meeting, Chamber Secretary Joe Hegarty
went through the detailed document point by point
with the assembled crowd of around a dozen business
people and community leaders. |
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Among the many ideas
mooted at the meeting, there was the possibility of
introducing pay and display to the centre of the
town, the establishment of dedicated bus parking in
the centre of town and the development of a public
car park behind the Sportsman’s Bar.
Mr Hegarty said that obstacles to attracting IT jobs
to Carndonagh, such as reliable, high speed
broadband, and government investment needed to be
met.
He stressed that in discussing a wide range of
issues concerning the town, the Carn |
Chamber were not trying
to usurp the power of other development
organisations in the town, although committee member
Mary McCallion added that the Carn Chamber had been
given ‘a mandate from the people of Carndonagh’ to
try and make some of their aims for the town a
reality.
A sizeable part of the meeting was taken up how to
provide facilities for the youth of the area and how
as well as issues of law and order.
Other suggestions included the re-location of the
town’s tourist office and a review of its opening
hours and the lowering or rates and rents to try to
entice businesses to set up in the town’s many
vacant outlets.
The Carn Chamber committee includes Patrick
McCarroll (Chairman), Lawrence Kendal (Vice
Chairman), Joe Hegarty (Secretary), Conor Kelly
(Treasurer) and Padraig Kelly (PRO).
The Carndonagh Chamber will now take some time to
finesse the document before submitting it to Donegal
County Council for consideration with regard to the
local authority’s future development plan for the
peninsula. |
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