PARISH PRIEST WANTS SALE STOPPED

The parish priest of Mitchelstown, Fr Michael Fitzgerald and a local school liaison officer have this week called for a halt to be put to the proposed sale of Forrest Hall in the town.

COMPETITION AUTHORITY TO APPEAL BREEO DECISION

Local Fianna Fail Euro election candidate, Ned O’Keeffe, has this week come out strongly in support of a Competition Authority appeal to the Supreme Court against a High Court decision that approved the sale of the Breeo Food brands to the Kerry Group.

CREDIT UNION DENIES REDUNDANCY SPECULATION

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Management at Fermoy Credit Union have insisted that there have been no redundancies amongst its permanent staff following speculation surrounding the institution. Manager, Martina Cotter, confirmed that the credit union had revised its staffing levels.

FIANNA FAIL TO RUN 5 IN FERMOY

A spokesperson for Fianna Fail has confirmed that the party will run five candidates for Fermoy Town Council in the upcoming local elections, including Councillor John Murphy who was last elected to the council as an independent.

‘WAIT AND SEE’ REACTION TO TOUGHEST BUDGET EVER

With the dust from the emergency budget still to settle, it now appears that there is still worse to come. Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan TD did say that the budget was going to be ‘hard but fair’. It was certainly hard; in fact this has turned out to be one of the toughest budgets in decades

FERMOY SHOPPING CENTRE HELD UP BY PLANNING DELAY

Planning officials have yet to decide if they will give the go ahead for a multi million euro retail development in Fermoy. The Shipton Group had expected to hear a decision on their proposed development on the former Cork Mart’s site in the town from An Bord Pleanala in the last week, only for the judgement to be delayed.