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Ennis’s Kilrush Rd. THE Ennis-based Mangan Brothers Wholesalers is Clare’s top locally-owned company, acis Element Six – formerly De Beers – in the cording to a new survey. Shannon Free Zone.
Measured in terms of the size of its business, Mangan’s is one of 24 Clare-based companies manufactures industrial diamonds, recorded a listed in Ireland’s top 1,000 companies, pub-
turnover of €279 million to the end of 2005. It lished by The Irish Times .
employs 533 at its Shannon facility. Recording a turnover of €196.8m to the end of 2005, the locally-owned company – steered
the Shannon Free Zone that feature in the surby chief executive, Terence Mangan – came in
vey, underlining the importance of the zone to at 197 in the list.
the Clare economy. Employing 300 people, Mangan Bros enjoys a comparatively low profile and has outlets in Galway, Tullamore, Sligo and Letterkenny. 45 people in telecommunications and networkENNIS Town Council has refuted suggesment plant at Clonroadmore was capable of tions that a ban is to be placed on the grantsustaining the current level of development in ing of planning permission for future develEnnis town, and that this situation was been opments in the county capital. regularly monitored.
Speculation had grown locally that because Town Engineer, Tom Tiernan told of limits in the capacity of the town’s sewClare People erage and wastewater infrastructure, a cap cerns regarding capacity at a smaller plant at would be placed on new developments for a Clareabbey, but this is being monitored in the period of time. normal way.
A spokesman for the local authority has “No refusals are being issued because of also described as “unlikely” the prospect that this and potential difficulties can, in general any changes would be made to its process of terms, be overcome by the willingness of degranting planning permission to developers velopers to deal appropriately with issues of for future developments in the town. this nature that are brought to their attention
The spokesman said that the sewerage and by the council.” waste water infrastructure at the main treatAsked if there were any future upgradTHE West of Ireland Alzheimer’s Foundation (WIAF) has offered to extend its services into Clare and throughout the Western HSE area.
The organisation’s chief executive, John Grant told this month’s meeting of the HSE Forum West that the voluntary group were willing and prepared to extend the services to all areas of the west.
The non-profit organisation promotes awareness of the nature of Alzheimer’s disease and its impact on families through education, talks, promotional material, and consultation and support group meetings. As well as providing in-home support and respite facilities throughout Mayo, Roscommon and Mayo, it is currently developing a 26-bed unit on the grounds of Merlin Park Hospital, Galway.
It is now prepared to meet the challenge
Its headquarters are located at Ashline, on The top-ranked multinational based in Clare Ranked 140th in the list, Element Six, which Element Six is one of 12 companies based in Enterasys Networks, a company employing The that, “there were some conthat will emerge from the new HSE West nine county region, members of the HSE forum were told.
An estimated 1,043 people in Clare are currently suffering from the disease.
Last week the HSE granted €1 million for a respite centre in Waterman’s Lodge in Killaloe.
Services are also provided at St. Joseph’s Hospital Ennis, the Clarecastle Day-Care Centre and Carrigoran House. With a growing elderly population in the county, more services will be required in the coming years, including the expansion of those currently being provided.
Mr Grant said that an acute bed for an Alzheimer’s patient costs the HSE €450 per annum. The cost of a bed to the WIAF is €40,000.
It costs the WIAF €1.36 million to run 34 beds, while the same number of beds cost the HSE €2.25 million, he said.
ing, which recorded a turnover of €147 million
to the end of 2005, is one of the top five Clare
companies. Avocent, the computer peripherals
manufacturer, is another. The US-owned Avo-
cent recorded a turnover of €137 million to the
end of 2005, making a profit of €36 million,
with 280 employees.
Other companies to feature in the top ten, in-
clude the long-established Roche Ireland with
a turnover of €124 million; Molex Ireland, the
electric component manufacturer, with a turno-
ver of €119 million and Shannon Engine Sup-
port recording a turnover of €83.4 million and
a profit of €39 million.
The top-ranked Clare-based builder on the ing works planned for the town’s sewerage system, Mr. Tiernan replied, “Yes and the council is at present awaiting approval to the preliminary report retaining to the Ennis/Clarecastle main drainage scheme from the Department of Health and Local Government.
“This approval is expected shortly.
“Incorporated in the scheme is a new 50,000-population equivalent treatment plant for Clareabbey.”
“The scheme is incorporated in the current national water services investment programme and at present, I would envisage that the new plant will be operational in about three years from now,” Mr Tiernan said. list is Brian McCarthy Contractors, with a turnover of €82 million. Other builders to feature are M Fitzgibbon Builders and Michael Lynch Ltd, which both generated turnovers of €30m.
Two companies that have come into focus through their dealings with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Schwarz Pharma and Finsa Forest Products also feature in the list. Finsa recorded a turnover of €35.9 million, while Schwarz Pharma’s turnover was €35.5 million. Finsa Forest Products is one of the few rural-based companies featuring in the survey. Another is the east Clare-based Olympus Diagnostica Ireland, which recorded a turnover of €55 million.