This article is from page 1 of the 2014-11-18 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 1 JPG
TAOISEACH Enda Kenny (FG) will receive a hot reception when he visits Shannon next Monday with hundreds of anti-water charge campaigners expected to take to the streets in protest.Clare Says No To Water Charges and the Right to Water group will host separate protests in Shannon on the day, with the Taoiseach in Clare to open a new facility at Genworth.
In the wake of violent scenes in Dublin over the weekend, both Clare groups said yesterday that they want the Shannon protests to remain peaceful.
“We don’t want to see what happened in Tallaght. We don’t want things getting out of hand or any problems occurring. We want this to be completely peaceful,” said Shannon councillor and member of the Right To Water group, Mike McKee (SF).
“I would condemn any riotous or overly boisterous behaviour. You get that in certain places and I would certainly hope that it will not happen here.
“We would demand that the people who come out keep it peaceful, oth- erwise we don’t want them with us.” These sentiments were echoed by Paul Whitmore of the Clare Says No To Water Charges group, who also announced a third protest march for Ennis on November 29.
“We are planning a peaceful protest. We want to get the message across that Irish Water should be abolished and the powers should go back to the county council,” he said.