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A public meeting which had initially been held to discuss the status of a Section 5 submission to An Bord Pleanala (ABP), has led to a vote on whether to delay mediation talks with the developer of the Great Southern Hotel.
Young learner drivers are among those at risk unless safety issues on Wexford’s New Line Road are addressed by council engineers. At the January meeting of the Rosslare Municipal District (RMD) Councillor Lisa McDonald urged the council to implement traffic calming measures on a road which she said has been the scene of “umpteen accidents”.
Sinn Féin candidate for the Rosslare Municipal District (RMD) Aoife Rose O’Brien has called upon the government to tackle the national mental health crisis before our local communities lose yet more loved ones.
With Wexford continuing to bear the brunt of climate change and parts of the county enduring repeated flooding events, one Rosslare councillor has bemoaned the lack of assistance from the Office of Public Works (OPW), describing it as a “mythical creature”. During a discussion at the January meeting of the Rosslare Municipal District (RMD) councillors were asked to approve the Wexford Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP), a document which sets out the the local council’s objectives over the next six years.
Staff from a Carlow-based telecommunications company have been branded as “cowboys” following their work in a number of estates across south Wexford. The Whiteknight Group, which is described as an “ever-expanding telecoms/renewable energy company” on its website, is responsible for leaving roads in the county in a state of disarray, according to Rosslare councillors.