Gort/Kinvara councillor Geraldine Donohue is urging the new Government to create a fit-for-purpose scheme to help deal with ash dieback.

A Programme for Government is to be drafted, and local councillors are calling for it to include the provision of funding to landowners in removing these trees.

Ash Dieback was first detected in 2012 and is now widespread – and it’s been predicted it will cause the death of the majority of ash trees over the next 20 years.

Independent Councillor Donohue claims urgent financial assistance is needed to deal with what is a growing safety issue: