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RESIDENTS concerned about late night behaviour on the streets of Ennis have reached agreement with management at a local nightclub, a court has been told.
Ennis District Court heard last month that residents on Francis Street were forced to put up with mayhem due to the actions of people urinating and vomiting on the street in the early hours of the morning.
A member of the local residents association told the court that while an application for a dance licence for the Queen’s Hotel was not being objected to, there were serious con- cerns about the behaviour of some late night revellers.
“We are not objecting to the l1- cence. We have a problem with anti- social behaviour that takes place on
our street between 3 and 4am. The majority of the people have been liv- ing there for 70 or 80 years,” said one resident in court, on that occasion.
The case was adjourned for a month. In court last Friday, solici- tor for the Queen’s Hotel, Marina Keane, said that agreement had been reached between the residents asso- ciation and the hotel and there were no issues arising.
A representative of the residents as- sociation was in court on Friday but was not objecting to the licence.
The manager of the Queen’s Hotel, Barry Lee, told the court that there is CCTV on the premises and this is available for inspection by gardai, if este LUN BKSLe
Judge Joseph Mangan asked Mr Lee how long the CCTV recordings are available for and was told four weeks. The licence was granted.