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1. Cork - Rabbitte to bring Make a Change tour to Cork
   Issued : Thursday 3 May, 2007
   The Labour Party leader, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, will once again visit Cork South Central to support Labour's candidate Councillor Ciaran Lynch on Tuesday, May 8th (itinerary to follow). Deputy Pat Rabbitte will be stopping off in Cork with the Labour Battle bus on his Make A Change tour.
2. cork - Lynch calls on Roche to provide more funding
   Issued : Friday 5 January, 2007
   Labour's candidate for Cork South Central, Councillor Ciaran Lynch, has called on Minister Roche to stop being a Scrooge and give Cork County Council the funding it deserves as a belated Christmas present.
3. An post must review credit card policy
   Issued : Tuesday 19 December, 2006
   "The prohibition by An Post to enable customers to buy stamps by credit card is nothing short of a nonsense and the policy needs to be changed," Councillor Ciaran Lynch, Labour's candidate for Cork South Central has said.
4. VAT on children's safety at 14.5% - VAT on thoroughbred racehorses 4.25%
   Issued : Thursday 7 December, 2006
   Councillor Ciaran Lynch has welcomed the reduction from 21 per cent VAT to 13.5 per cent VAT on car seats for children in this week’s Budget.
5. Carers opportunity missed in Budget
   Issued : Wednesday 6 December, 2006
   The Chairperson of the HSE Southern Region Health Forum, Cllr Ciaran Lynch has said the Budget once again represents a missed opportunity for the Government to fundamentally reform the Carers Allowance by scrapping the means test that exists for the allowance.
6. Lynch calls for Carrigaline Bus service to be reexamined
   Issued : Tuesday 21 November, 2006
   Cllr Ciaran Lynch is calling for the reexamination of the bus service between Cork and Carrigaline. The present bus service does not reflect the growing need of Carrigaline town which is grown several-fold over the last number of years.
7. Lynch calls for accountability in Cork bus services
   Issued : Friday 18 August, 2006
   Councillor Ciaran Lynch has called for measures to be introduced which will entail the publishing of monthly records in the public domain of the performances of bus services around Cork.
8. Govt must take action on radon gas levels in Cork
   Issued : Thursday 27 July, 2006
   "The recent revelation that a house in Kerry has concentration levels of 40 times higher the acceptable levels of radon shows the Government is not doing enough to tackle this deadly gas,” Labour’s Councillor Ciaran Lynch has said.
9. Absence of knowledge
   Issued : Tuesday 6 June, 2006
   Cllr Lynch's Douglas Weekly column>Witnessing the events of last week I wondered how the children of today, in years to come, will sit down in their homes to watch a programme like ‘Reeling in the Years’ and look back upon the events of the last couple of weeks. Without question events arising out of the Supreme Court judgement will be remembered long into the future.
10. 'Catch and release' by-law proposed by Labour's Cllr Ciaran Lynch
    Issued : Saturday 3 June, 2006
    img src="/common/images/people/lynch_ciaran_c.jpg" width="76" height="94" />Councillor Ciaran Lynch has put a motion before Cork City Council requesting that a by-law be introduced to introduce a ‘Catch and Release Fishing’ at The Lough. This follows reports he has received from people visiting The Lough who have claimed to have witnessed fish being caught and removed.