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It would cost Mayo County Council in the region of €1 million a year to cut every hedge on roadsides in the county.

There are 24 lights lighting up a bridge on the N17 outside Claremorris yet there is no illumination at a dangerous junction just metres away which has been the site of 13 accidents. And there is no way to make the junction safe, local councillors were told this week.

Sudden adult death syndrome claimed another vibrant victim last week in Carlow.

A Bagenalstown councillor is calling on the NRA to revamp a dangerous junction on a main local artery, irrespective of the road’s future.

The school bus that recently boycotted a local route is back on the road but the condition of Carlow’s rural roads remains a major concern for a cash-strapped council.

“Bridges of Nimmo” is the title of a lecture to be given by Noel Wilkins, an emeritus professor of NUI Galway, at the Harbour Hotel, Dock Road on Monday at 8pm.

Fianna Fail has confirmed candidates for the up-coming local elections for Kilkenny County Council for the Kilkenny, Piltown and Thomastown local electoral areas.

Next Thursday afternoon will witness an expected capacity crowd flock to Gowran Park in their thousands. The most prestigious race in the Kilkenny track, the €100,000 Ellen Construction Thyestes Chase, will take place at 2.35pm.

A media briefing is to take place this afternoon at the Watershed swimming pool to inform members of the press of the progress at the troubled pool.

More than €44,000 is to be spent in the provision of improving footpaths on Mill Street, Westport, under the 2009 roadworks scheme which was before members of the Westport Electoral Area committee at a meeting on Monday.