RESIDENTS IN Fethard are calling on the local GAA Club to pull its ties with O2 and to support the removal of the company's mobile phone at St. Mogue's.

The O2 mobile phone mast at St. Mogue's GAA pitch is still in place, despite an enforcement order being placed on O2 Communications by Wexford County Council.

Residents in the area are now hoping that Wexford County Council will refuse planning permission for the retention of the O2 mast on the basis that 41 personal objections have been submitted to the council and 500 signatures were submitted to the Committee of St. Mogue's GAA Club.

We have been told by the Club that it was a full committee decision in 2001 to allow O2 erect a mass in one of its buildings and it was a full committee decision to allow it to remain there,' said a spokesperson for the Fethard Awareness Group, who added that we believe that the club is of the people and for the people. We are fully supportive of our club but our concerns regarding the mast are very real.'

With no health indemnity insurance in place for the mast and no binding contract between O2 and St. Mogue's we feel it is an opportune time for the club to pull out of whatever agreement they have with O2. We believe that the club is being left in a very vulnerable position and by removing the mast it could save itself a lot of trouble in the long run,' added the spokesperson.