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The back gardens in the housing es- tate have flooded every year prevent- ing children from playing in them and adults enjoying them.
After years of complaining to the local authority and making political representations, chairperson of the local residents association Christine Murphy brought the issue directly to the Kilrush Town Councillors at the June meeting.
During a presentation Ms Murphy said, “This is not the first time we brought this problem to the council.”
She said that when she and her fam- ily became residents of Island View in February 2005 they did not realise the garden was going to be a problem until the following winter. She said the garden flooded and was not fit for human use.
Ms Murphy explained that the resi- dents were told on three separate oc- casions to collect the names and ad- dresses of the householder that had this problem. When they did nothing was done she said.
She said that some people became so frustrated at the delay in an ad- equate response to their plight from the council, that they fixed the gar- den themselves at a cost of more than €2,000.
Speaking this week Cllr O’Gorman said, “Part of these people’s homes are isolated from them and I don’t think that is good enough. I trust it will be done eventually but it must be Pele A ae