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The Kilkenny Garda has stepped up its presence in the Kieran Street area of the city, in light of the serious concerns expressed by business owners over the area’s safety.

The council is to ask the Gardaí to monitor traffic at Green Bridge, after receiving several complaints from councillors about the number of near misses and “persistent breaking of traffic lights” on the bridge.

Bye-laws must be introduced prohibiting people from bringing horses and horse drawn vehicles onto beaches and requiring horse drawn carts to have reflective lighting and markings.

A Kilkenny man was battling for his life in St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny last night following a stabbing incident in a city centre apartment on Wednesday night.

There has been a substantial increase in the number of motorists caught speeding on Kilkenny’s roads, ever since the introduction of the new ‘Go Safe’ mobile speed vans.

A number of leaflets will be in circulation throughout Kilkenny in the coming weeks, to help the public protect themselves against crime more effectively.

Wanton acts of criminal damage in Kilkenny are continuing to cost the public, rendering the need to report such incidents all the more important, the Joint Policing Committee (JPC) has said.

Sinn Féin councillor Gerry Murray this week called for the Garda traffic corps to be disbanded, asking that ordinary members of the Gardaí deal with traffic duties so that more gardaí could be deployed in the towns around the county. Cllr Murray told the July meeting of Mayo County Council: “The ordinary Gardaí in the county are trained to carry out all the functions of the traffic corps and they can carry out these duties as part of their ordinary work. If this happened it would free up members who are solely on traffic duty to come back into the community and give extra bodies to police in the locality around the county”.

During the Joint Policing Committee meeting in Westport, Superintendent Mick Murray appealed to local farmers to become crime aware this summer.

The Galway City Joint Policing Committee will hold its next meeting in the Ballybane Community Resource Centre on Monday at 10am.