Appeal For Information Issued After Significant Damage Caused To Clarecastle Quay

0:00Unfortunately, there has been missing below at the gateway and at the key, where there was a lovely barrier and at the gateway, the key of clear. And the barrier has been destroyed. The pillar of the wall has been knocked over. And thankfully, I believe the NSMD workers have come out and they had cornered off the damaged gateway. And it is cornered off at the moment, but the damage is extensive. And hopefully, we can start the process of repairing it. And it's a site, of course, with quite extensive historical significance to Klerkassel. To the town, Klerkassel and the county are clear, yes, indeed. But even in more recent times, it's a site that's visited very, very regularly by numerous people. Numerous people come down to pack the car, trouble the kids walk around, take the interview, just listening to River Fogress flow out into the Shannon. It's a wonderful amenity in the county and in the NSMD.

1:02And to take note that people with disabilities and car users cannot access it until we have this wall and get repaired. Yeah, you've seen the photos of it. It's a barricaded off. It's a real blow to the local community. It's a big blow. And I hope whoever was involved in the incident has reported the incident and started that process. I'm not aware of where it is at the moment. I know the NSMD were aware of it. I have contacted them myself yesterday and they are looking into it. But I hope whoever was involved in this incident has reported it to the guards, the authorities, and somewhere. The wise parts of the vehicle found on the site there, Iveko parts have been found. So it'll be easy to find that person. There's plenty of cameras in CCTV in that area. So I would suggest to whoever was that they might come forward and say whatever was because it won't be a matter of time before we find out what the vehicle was that drove down the gate.

2:05I suppose the same goes for people in Czechasal if there's any sort of a dash camera CCTV footage that they have to make it available to the guards as well, make it an easy enough process for figuring out what happened. I would suggest that if anyone has camera footage and they have any vehicle vehicles that have traveled down the key, it wasn't damaged on Saturday evening, Sunday morning, and it was damaged Sunday evening. So definitely there's a time frame there. And I suppose if the wise CCTV footage or dash cam footage are these new doorbell footage, I'm sure we'll be able to figure out what vehicle may have went down the key within the vehicle. And as you said, MD staff out already to begin to clean up, but it could be quite a while before it's back in full operational order and back fully repaired. Yeah, hopefully now I'm Dennis, the Clarkassons,

3:05so that's a tidy town, steamer, our well-annered and the NSMD are on it and they walk together like handing gloves and it will be great to get the pillar repaired. Hopefully the sign can be straightened, if not it would be a massive cast and buying a new one, but hopefully you might be able to be straightened where it looks immaculate again, but all that process is started. It would be just, it was, it would be something that we need to know kind of what happened and if we could find out what happened, it would be great. Yeah, and you kind of mentioned it there, you're kind of hoping that it's not the need for a new sign to keep things as at least expensive as possible. 100% look at the sign, the sign is fairly well bent and warped and it all depends and it is crooked in any other way before you can straighten it because there's no point in straighten it and then looking like it has been damaged. So all that process will start now as soon as the NSMD team

4:05get down or make the sign safe and can get access to the sign and take it down for repair.