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The innovative park and ride initiative headed up by Kilkenny Borough Council in December attracted just 66 people over the month in which it was in operation.

Kilkenny city and county has been hit hard by the Nordic weather conditions that have taken a large proportion of the country by storm this week. Significant snowfalls hampered travel throughout the county with many local routes deemed impassable.

The local authorities are set to block off a public laneway in the Bishops Meadows housing estate in an effort to curtail anti-social behaviour in the area.

Trophy in hand, the mayor and his fellow councillors were eager to build on Kilkenny’s success in this year’s Tidy Towns competition, with talk turning to outright victory next year.

The overhaul of the Athlone Relief Road (bypass) will cost in the region of €7 million and may take up to 40 weeks to complete.

After nearly 13 years of planning, design, and construction, the final stage of the €40 million Mullingar ring road, the unromantically titled western relief road, was opened to traffic on Tuesday afternoon.

A senior engineer for Mayo County Council reported has stated there needs to be more involvement from community organisations to keep towns clean and litter free. Noel Burke, senior engineer for Mayo County Council, was responding to a question from Cllr Joe Mellet at the Swinford Electoral Area meeting this week about the numbers of people who will be working on town clean ups when the council outdoor staff takes annual builders holidays.

A major improvement scheme to the Westport to Mulranny road was discussed at the Belmullet Electoral Area committee this week.

Fine Gael councillor Tom Connolly handed over a petition signed by 702 people from Claremorris calling on the council to bring in a one hour free parking for on street parking in the town. “The people are moving away from the town centre to do their shopping to the big supermarkets because they offer free parking,” Cllr Connolly told the meeting. “Mayo County Council will have to look at making some kind of concession or the middle of the town will close down and there will be no rates coming in from the rate payers.”

Claremorris Electoral area briefs