We need greater funding from central government for the whole of Leitrim says Stenson

Re-elected to Leitrim County Council for the sixth time, Independent councillor Enda Stenson said he was “absolutely thrilled.”

Accepting it was not an easy run, however, he said “at the end of the day I ended up with the most votes in the Carrick area and that's a personal achievement I'm particularly delighted with.”

“We ran the campaign from the family. I didn't have posters or ads in the paper, I just went as myself and I'm absolutely thrilled and I'm so grateful to the hundreds of people who have put their faith in me and I hope I will be able to justify their faith in me over the next five years,” he remarked.

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Cllr Stenson said the new council now faces challenges right across the county.

“In my opinion we need greater funding from central government for the whole of Leitrim. We always seem to be on the lower end.

“We have got good funding, particularly Drumshanbo and the public realms, but there is a lot needed in Leitrim, particularly drainage systems for flooding. We need more housing, we certainly need more funding for childcare which the government absolutely refuses to do and I think that's wrong,” he said.

“Here in Carrick everybody knows we need a new national school. That's not greed, that is a need. I was in the school, I saw teachers teaching children on corridors.

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“We need a whole new community build in Carrick-on-Shannon, we need the completion of the old vocational school as a training centre in Mohill.

“I know that's well on the way and will come to fruition in the next couple of years. That was a programme of mine from the very start and it's coming to fruition,” he added.

“The Regional Sports Centre is going to need funding. We have got to complete those projects for the good of Leitrim.

“If we're going to enhance this county and encourage people to come into this county we need enhanced projects such as those and we need family homes for people interest in coming and taking up the jobs that come online at the moment we don't have those homes,” he concluded.