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Local councillors are desperate to gain more power in their war on unruly tenants in private rental accommodation who are making their neighbours lives a living hell.

An apparently broken camera at the bottle bank on the Green Road is doing little to deter people from dumping their rubbish at the site, according to a local councillor.

Residents in a Carlow town estate are living in fear for their safety because of menacing boy racers and heavy day-time traffic using the estate as a ‘rat run’ to avoid main road traffic, according to local councillors.

Carlow town councillors are to mull over a comprehensive new plan earmarked to guide development in the town for the next six years, ahead of a special meeting next month.

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.

Minister John Gormley’s last minute diversion to a flood stricken Carlow town last August has left a bitter aftertaste in the mouths of some local councillors.

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.

Minister John Gormley’s last minute diversion to a flood stricken Carlow town last August has left a bitter aftertaste in the mouths of some local councillors.

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.

Local representatives continue to have grave concerns about the safety of the site of a former filling station, which was the source of an oil spill almost five years ago.