Deputy Noel Coonan said the Government must boost its funding to the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) so that the job-creating body can provide jobs for some of the 6,949 people who are unemployed in North Tipperary. The Fine Gael TD was commenting following the dismal news that North Tipperary lost 188 IDA jobs last year;

Deputy Noel Coonan said the rollout of high-speed broadband throughout North Tipperary depends on the Government providing backhaul connectivity to link the constituency’s Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) to the wider national and international broadband network. The Fine Gael TD has been in consultation with Limerick-based company e|net which is managing the rollout of the fibre-optic

Deputy Noel Coonan has welcomed the appointed of Mary Hanafin TD as Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, and wants the Tipperary-native to address several serious tourism problems affecting the Mid West region including North Tipperary. Commenting after the Government reshuffle last week, the Fine Gael TD said: “Minister Hanafin in her new role must

The Clonakenny Branch of Fine Gael held its AGM on Monday last in the Norebrook Lounge where Fine Gael representatives in the area were described as the ‘drivers of change’. The meeting was addressed by local TD Noel Coonan who said tension in Dáil Éireann at the moment is ‘palpable’. The gathering was well attended

Deputy Noel Coonan has expressed serious concern over a two month backlog in issuing driving licences from North Tipperary County Council and the Fine Gael TD said this issue is very grave because people may incur penalty points and a fine as a result. Deputy Coonan said: “The Council is currently processing applications for mid

Deputy Noel Coonan angered by TDs who say one thing in their constituencies and another in Dáil Eireann Deputy Noel Coonan has expressed deep annoyance at Government members who voted to annul a controversial levy on broadcasters in a recent Committee debate but in the Dáil a week later voted through this same levy which

Government plans have dictated that Nenagh’s Medical Card Section will be centralised to Dublin next month. Deputy Noel Coonan said during the Celtic Tiger era this Government promoted decentralisation and moving jobs to the country but now they are implementing the exact opposite by removing services from the rural landscape and transferring them to the

Fine Gael supporters showed up in force to greet Party Leader Deputy Enda Kenny in Jim Barry’s pub in Newtown last Friday. There was a great buzz around Barry’s as Enda made his way around the establishment chatting with the locals, members and Fine Gael supporters. Deputy Kenny took his time greeting the crowd and