This article is from page 17 of the 2013-06-04 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 17 JPG
WHEN it came to designing the new Ennis constituency it wasn’t exactly rocket science; the boundary committee took the current local electoral areas of Ennis East and Ennis West and stuck them together.
“The committee is recommending a configuration that would provide for a local electoral area for Ennis that would include its hinterland,” the report said.
It added that in making the recommendations it was also mindful of the position of Ennis as the county town with a town council.
This town council will of course be absorbed up by the new Ennis Electoral Area leaving nine redundant town councillors, and nine county councillors (five from Ennis East and Four from Ennis West) vying for eight seats.
Most of the 33,010 people in this area live in the urban area of Ennis town, but rural areas such as Kilnamona, Quin, Doora and Templemaley will also be looking to have their say in this highly populated, low geographically spread area.
There will be a ratio of 4,126 people to every local representative elected to this area. ENNIS