Tenants on the march over rent strike eviction policy

Tenants on the march over rent strike eviction policy

SPEAKING at a public meeting at Thomas Street Corner yesterday, Alderman Mick Lipper repeated his warning to the city manager that if the eviction of tenants who are on a rent strike is pursued with by the Corporation, the manager would “bring down a holocaust” on himself.

Alderman Lipper accused “outsiders” of interfering with the Tenants’ Association.

“I am not jumping on any bandwagon as I am speaking to you as one of your own. Like yourselves, I have been withholding rent on my house in Garryowen for the past four months. Like you, I too am convinced of the basic injustice of the Minister in assessing rents,” he said.

He added that the tenants’ association had established numerous cases where the City Manager has imposed unjustly high rents on tenants who have not worked any overtime.

He also made a reference to “economic rent” and he asked the Manager and Minister for Local Government to come out and explain what was meant by “economic rent”.

“One need not be an economist to know that the local authority tenants in Ireland are being exploited in the interests of foreign financiers,” he added. He stated that if the tenants of Limerick stand behind the tenants’ association on this issue, they would beat the Manager.

He said that the struggle was justified and that the tenants would not be intimidated.

Radio Limerick set to return to airwaves for Civic Week

radio Limerick will again this year be in full operation for Limerick Civic Week.

The Mayor, Cllr Paddy Kiely, will officially open the station on Sunday, April 11 and it will run through to the following Sunday.

The programmes are designed to cater for everyone including business people, youth, visitors, the sick and the old, while the music will be very varied with traditional, classical, light opera and modern.

Mrs O’Malley is well-known as an excellent voice personality while Michael McNamara has been on Radio Eireann and did commercial spots for Radio Tralee during the Festival of Kerry. He is a prominent disc jockey, working in many of Munster’s leading discotheques.

The promoters feel that RTE is too Dublin-orientated and that Radio Limerick will give Limerick people an opportunity to air their views and advertise their goods at reasonable rates.