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Clare farmers sleeping with their shotguns PÁRAIC McMAHON
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LARE FARMERS are ready to take the law into their own hands. Farmers in East Clare “have the shotgun loaded under the bed at night,” Cllr Pat Burke (FG) told Monday’s meeting of the Clare Joint Policing Committee (JPC) with increasing frustration over the apparent injustice in light of recent burglaries in Whitegate and Scariff. “I can see it happening where the farmers will
take the law into their own hands,” the former Deputy Mayor of Clare stated. Similar frustration is brewing in Ennistymon, community representative Bill Slattery said, “Farmers are being bullied and intimidated, I fear we’ll have to go back to a Padraig Nally situation where farmers went to get their own guns to protect their areas”. The Lahinch man called for Gardaí to be armed to try stamp out the prevalence of such crimes. Ennis Supt, John Galvin voiced his reluctance for Gardaí to be armed. Full Story pg 12