A chara, – Tarbert is most definitely not the first e-town (“Shannon Development has launched an eight-house, €3 million live-work housing project in Tarbert, Co Kerry, on the Shannon estuary. Its promoters have declared it the State’s first ‘e-town’ project”, Home News, April 13th) .
Miltown Malbay was hailed as the first e-town project promoted by the very same Shannon Development (July 24th, 2004) and is with one exception a “ghost” development. That Shannon Development have gone ahead with another project in these recessionary times is galling and a waste of taxpayers’ money. Where is the accountability and transparency in Shannon Development? – Is mise,