Town and
City Councils may be set to be abolished after next months local elections, but
it has not stopped one town in the South East region making a major decision
before it is abolished.
The nine elected members of
Carrick-on-Suir Town Council at its April meeting voted successfully to invite
Prince Charles to the South Tipperary Town where he would visit the town’s
Tudor Ormond Castle.
The move comes after recent
reports that the first in line to the throne would be invited to make an
official visit to Ireland. The invitation to visit the South Tipperary town
will now be forwarded to London through the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Independent member of
Carrick-on-Suir Town Council, Pierce O’Loughlin tabled the successful motion. The
same Councillor tabled a similar but unsuccessful
motion to invite the Prince’s mother Queen Elizabeth II to the town when it
became known that she was to make a first official visit to Ireland in 2011 and
would be visiting the nearby Rock of Cashel.
Councillor
O’Loughlin told members that he was told by a senior minister that the Prince
would be visiting Ireland and added that “I think we need to get in there first
with the invitation” and added that “if he comes (to the town) we will be on
the world stage”.
Should
Prince Charles take up the invitation to visit Carrick-on-Suir, it would not be
his first visit to the region.
In
March 2004, Princes Charles and his now wife Camilla visited and stayed at
Lismore Castle while attending the 60th birthday of Lord Hartington, Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish the
son of the then Duke of Devonshire and current Duke of Devonshire, succeeding
his father to the Dukedom six weeks later following his death at the age of 84.
Both Prince Charles and his first wife,
Diana Princess of Wales are related to the Duke of Lismore and if he does
visit, there could be calls that he stays at Lismore Castle for the course of
his visit.
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