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Mar 21 2024
BOG TO MAKE THE BOYS WINK
‘Immigration is the biggest voter priority’ l Government has lost control on issue, claims election candidate by Páraic McMahon paraic@clareecho.ie
l Scenes from the bog depicted during the Doonbeg parade during St Patrick’s Day parade festivities at the weekend Photo by John O’Neill
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ENNIS Architect Michael Leahy believes immigration is the single biggest issue affecting Irish voters in the run up to the European elections in June. The Irish Freedom Party candidate for the European Parliament Ireland South constituency, said the recent referenda result is the beginning of an Irish awakening. “By far the greatest concern that people have out on the streets is concern over the manner in which the government has lost control over the issue of immigration” Mr Leahy - who is campaigning in the five-seater Ireland South constituency - said. “It is important to elect MEPs who will put Ireland, rather than the interests of “ever closer union” first, and that is what we intend to do”. “Many people in this constituency are deeply concerned that the European Union is becoming syn-
onymous with NATO and they are concerned with the noises being made by government about Ireland becoming a part of NATO and being forced into participation in the European war. His comments come in a week when Independent TD Michael McNamara claimed that accommodation providers in the county are being made millionaires by the State for housing asylum seekers and refugees that are no longer living there. Scariff native McNamara issued strong criticism of the Government for forking out money to accommodation providers and not carrying out regular inspection checks to ascertain the amount of people staying at each premises. “
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