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A local councillor has asked Carlow Town Council to consider planting more trees along the roadside in an effort to off-set carbon dioxide levels in the town.

Motorists on the N9 at Powerstown are attributing a design fault to the frequency of articulated lorries turning over on the road. Another driver — the fifth this year — had a narrow escape on Tuesday morning when his timber haulage truck, transporting bark mulch, turned over on its side as he navigated the double roundabout on the stretch of road that forms the soft ending of the first section of the €216.5 million Dublin to Waterford/Carlow bypass.

New parking charges and a review of one-way systems in Carlow town look plausible in the near future as the urban council ponder the future of the town’s traffic management.

Local councillors have welcomed the positive nature of this year’s Tidy Towns report on Carlow town, but warned that there is still more to do.

A local councillor has urged the urban council to take quicker action on drawing up a new development plan for the town.

Carlow town councillors have agreed to write to Environment Minister John Gormley in an effort to recoup the €70,000 the local authority spent dealing with floods this year.

Carlow’s longest serving public representative looks unlikely to reverse his decision to retire ahead of next year’s local election, despite some gentle prodding from another council mainstay.

Funding for construction of housing under local authority schemes in county Carlow is set to be cut by €4.5 million over the next three years, local representatives were told.

A lot of very good work is going on in Tinryland. And it’s all down to some very hardworking people.

Local councillors have raised concerns over the amount of rubbish going to landfill in Carlow ahead of the introduction of a third bin to manage bio-degradable waste.