Kildare County Council questioned over Drehid haul route repairs
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Kildare County Council engineers are planning to examine all major sub-standard junctions, on a countywide basis, and make a submission to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport (DTTAS) for money to improve them, a District committee has been told.
Cllr Daragh Fitzpatrick asked about upgrade plans in the Clane-Maynooth District (MD) after the recent refusal of An Bord Pleanála to grant an extension to the Drehid Landfill facility.
Specifically, he wanted to know about plans to upgrade or put traffic calming measures on the haul routes to the facility within the MD.
Kildare school places issue a ticking time bomb, public meeting hears
South Kildare school situation an emergency
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Demand for school enrollments in Kildare could be a “ticking time bomb,” a county councillor has told a public meeting which heard of major concerns over school places in the county.
Cllr Angela Feeney was speaking on a request by a number of councillors for information on school capacity at Kildare County Council’s plenary meeting on January 25.
Cllr Feeney said 27% of the population of north Kildare was under 18 and school places needed to be built for all the new and planned housing.
Five Kildare bogs to be restored by Bord na Mona as part of €108 million spend
National scheme will protect the storage of 100 million tonnes of CO2 emissions
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Five bogs in west Kildare are included in a list of 82 bogs nationwide, which are set to be restored by Bord na Móna.
The final list of bogs was issued following the allocation of €108 million for bog restoration by the Dept. of the Environment, Climate and Communications.
The five west Kildare bogs initially selected for restoration under the scheme are Ballydermot Bog, which straddles the Kildare/Offaly border between Rathangan and Edenderry, Lodge Bog, which separates Lullymore and Allenwood, and where a good area of peatland has already been rewetted by Bord na Móna, Ticknevin Bog just south of the Grand Canal, Timahoe South Bog (where the AES owned landfill is currently operating) and Timahoe North Bog, where permission was granted for a 238 hectare solar farm earlier this year.