Expanded CCTV system in Tipperary's largest town will be in place by the autumn

It will be next September or October before the installation of Clonmel’s expanded CCTV system goes ahead, it has been announced.

District Administrator Carol Creighton told a meeting of Clonmel Borough District that eleven of the cameras would be installed at the Kickham Barracks Plaza, which had been officially launched in February.

Some funding would be provided by the Department of Justice and the Borough District, and they would have to look at how the system would be funded going forward.

Ms Creighton said it was important to get the scheme up and running, as they had been waiting for a number of years.

The scheme had been approved but it had yet to be signed off by the Garda Commissioner’s office, and this was expected to take between four and six weeks.

Tipperary County Council was checking out the civil works through its consultants, she added.

These preparatory works would continue in the meantime so that the council was ready to go to tender to appoint an installation contractor when the written approval came through.

The District Administrator said that the tender stage would take eight weeks.

Cllr Siobhán Ambrose said that the expanded CCTV system would be a great addition to the town.

52 new cameras would be provided and a further 34 would be brought into the system, and that was fantastic.

She acknowledged the work of the local Garda Superintendent and gardaí in this regard.