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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.

Despite having closed-circuit television images, local councillor Walter Lacey is asking why nobody has been caught for illegal dumping in Carlow.

Residents of Ballybar and Linkardstown are so worried that open ground near the new bridges off the N9 will attract an encampment, that they have written to the National Roads Authority to make sure it doesn’t.

Learner drivers who have got used to travelling on the dual carriageway between Athlone and Kinnegad are having to seek alternative routes this week, as the section of road was upgraded to motorway status on Wednesday.

A local beauty spot has been left looking like the wreckage of a plane crash because of persistent illegal dumping, according to a local councillor.