Wednesday 11 July 2007

Cancer survivor among residents opposing mobile phone mast proposal

A WOMAN who fought breast cancer through 18 chemotherapy treatments
has joined opposition to the siting of a mobile phone mast near her home
owing to concerns that the mast could pose a health hazard.
Hutchinson 3G wants to erect the mast near Clonlara on the outskirts of
Limerick.
Kay Broderick, who has fought cancer, said: “All the studies on these things
might not show they are dangerous but they haven’t shown they aren’t
dangerous either. I don’t think it is safe.”
She said she was just one of many locals opposed to the mast.
Clare County Council has sought additional information from the mast
company about the mast.
Ms Broderick said: “I think everyone around here objected to it. This mast
would be fairly tall.
“There’s another person on our road who is also recovering from cancer and I
don’t think anyone wants to be living underneath it.”
She also claimed that the planning site notice was also located too far from
the roadway to read it.
Another local resident David McCullogh said that locals hadreceived very little
information about the proposed mast and were worried about it.
He said: “We are primarily against it because we have health and safety
concerns.
“We just don’t know enough about it.”
Local councillor Pascal Fitzgerald said masts were springing up all over the
area without proper consultation.
Mr Fitzgerald said: “I don’t like the way the companies are going about it. I
walk that road all the time and I wouldn’t have known about the proposal
except that one resident spotted it and called me."

Jimmy Woulfe
© Irish Examiner

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