Castlebar councillors ready to stand with locals on road closure

Fri, Apr 01, 2022

Councillors from the Castlebar Municipal District have said that they will join with local residents in the Keelogues area if a proposed five-week road closure to facilitate works on the new N5 goes ahead.

The elected members raised the issue of the proposed closure of the L1711 (the old Keelogues road) at their March monthly meeting, which took place on Wednesday afternoon, with the councillors all saying they had received a large number of representations from locals objecting to the proposed closure. Locals in the area had previously objected to a proposed five-month closure of the road.

Cathaoirleach of the Municipal District, Fianna Fáil councillor Martin McLoughlin, told the meeting that he felt it was unreasonable to have a five-week closure of the road and that he felt that works could possibly be done without closing the road. He added that if there was a public protest in relation to the closure, that he would be there to support the locals.