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has learned that one last meeting of the current incar- nation of Clare County Council has been scheduled to take pace on June 8, three days after polling will take place for local election.
Counting for the local elections will take place on June 6 with a decision likely late on Saturday evening, June 6 or early on Sunday, June 7.
However, it 1s understood that all current member of Clare County
Council will be invited to attend the full council meeting scheduled for Monday, June 8.
Barring the unlikely situation that each sitting councillor going for re- election is returned, this will mean that some councillors will have the opportunity to make decisions, de- spite losing their mandate from the people.
Meanwhile, the May meeting of the local authority ended in a whimper last night as a host of motions were moved as several of councillors were not present to discuss their own mo- tions. At one stage it appeared that the meeting would not be able to maintain its quorum of nine coun- cillors and would have to be aban-
doned.
“It was the dying sting of an old council. The meeting was finished up early because all of the remaining motions had to be moved because the people who proposed were not there to discuss them,” said Cllr Christy Curtin (Ind) after proceedings were completed.
‘‘T suppose you would have to ques- tion the wisdom of having a meeting so close to election time. Most of the councillors had their main focus on the elections and were more inter- ested in getting out and canvassing,” he said.
The meeting was completed after just over an hour, with a large number of motions still up for discussion.