Timmy Dooley

Manufacturers of defective concrete block ‘have no morals’

Mary Hanley speaking with fellow members of the Clare Pyrite Action Group. Photograph: Natasha Barton Targeting manufacturers responsible for the selling of defective concrete blocks leading to the cracking and crumbling of hundreds of homes in Co Clare must wait until agreements are reached on redress, senior politicians in the county have said.

Politicians clash as pyrite meeting raises tensions

*Dr Martina Cleary listens to Clare TD, Violet-Anne Wynne. Photograph: Natasha Barton Clare’s politicians clashed at a meeting of the Pyrite Action Group with accusations of “playing party politics” thrown at the only opposition Oireachtas member in attendance.