Search Results for 'Barry Kehoe'

The disused Athlone to Mullingar railway could be re-opened sooner than expected - but to bicycles rather than trains.

There was shock and praise in equal measures at the end of Monday’s meeting of Athlone Town Council when town clerk John Walsh announced he had presided over his final council meeting.

Councillors have rejected a proposal by Westmeath County Council to relocate a junction at Macetown north of Mullingar, on the grounds that the work is unnecessary and that the money would be better spent on realigning other sections of the N52 road.

The plan to build a new pedestrian bridge from the Left Bank to the Strand got a step closer this week after the town council adopted a plan for the improvement and upgrading of the town’s waterfront.

A fear of water combined with the Tiger’s demise has seen the adoption of a plan prepared for the southerly expansion of Athlone between Burgess Park and Willow Park postponed for at least four years until the ongoing study on Shannon flooding is published in 2014.

Despite the appearance of gardaí on point duty at a number of strategic junctions around the town for the last few days in the wake of a council meeting that clamoured for such, a senior garda confirmed this will stop today (April 8), and will not be in place for the duration of the bypass renovation.

Plans of the local authority to take Cloghanboy estate in charge were adjourned for at least a month after a councillor raised a question about whether the developers had promised to install speed ramps.

A €22m relief road, deemed “a pivotal and strategic route” for the future of Athlone, will have to wait for development levies from future businesses to fund it, this week’s meeting of the town council heard.

Maintenance of the 3,000 street lights in Athlone will be back on a formal footing again by the end of May after a five month gap, while only an estimated 100 were out of order, the monthly meeting of the town council was informed earlier this week.

Athlone’s major tourist attraction, the 800-year old castle, will now not be open for a second summer season in a row, Athlone Town Council was informed at its monthly meeting this week.