Foscadh Housing are to be approached by Louth CC to see if they ll allow access to a pathway to run from the Lia Breagha estate to service schools on the Ballymakenny Road.
At present, students on the northside of the town take a short cut through a dangerous gap at the bottom of the Castlemanor estate.
It has been the scene of serious anti-social behaviour in the past with a vehicle burned out at the location, robberies of delivery workers taking place and both guns and drugs being transported through the ditch.
It has been a long standing issue for terrified families in the immediate area.