Roads - Thurles Information

Pedestrian Looses Life In Possible Hit & Run Road Incident.

A man has lost his life, following what is believed to be a ‘hit and run’ incident, here in North Co. Tipperary, in the early hours of this morning.

The deceased man, understood to be in his 60s, was found lying by the side of the R433 road, near the village of Clonmore, Templemore, Co. Tipperary.

Gardaí attended at the collision scene shortly after 1:00am, following which the man was sadly pronounced dead.

The body of the deceased remained at the scene this morning, with the road remaining closed to allow Gardaí undertake a full technical examination of the area.

Gardaí are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this incident to immediately come forward.
Road users who were travelling in the area late on Sunday night or in the early hours of this morning, (Monday, November 21st, 2022), are asked to make same immediately available.

Persons with any further information are asked to contact Thurles Garda Station, Tel: 0504 25100; Garda Confidential Line Tel: 1800 666 111, or indeed any Garda station.

Cable Contractors Demonstrate Contempt For Thurles Residents

Contractors laying cable on Ikerrin Road, on the east side of Thurles town, have demonstrating their contempt for local residents and Irish Water (Uisce Éireann).

The company contracted we understand by ‘eir’, having dug up pavements in the area and in repairing same, using tarmacadam and a vibrating wacker plate compactor machine, have refused easy access to domestic water metres, latter owned by Irish Water.

Easy access to each of these metres is important, since meter boxes also contain stopcocks, latter controlling the flow of water going to individual private houses.
Same over the past week have been left buried in compacted tarmac.

Pouldine Area Of Tipperary Without Broadband Services Following Collision.

Thurles Gardaí have arrested a male on suspicion of drink driving after his motor vehicle lost control and crashed into an ESB pole and a fibre broadband junction box in the area of Pouldine cross located between Thurles town and the village of Horse & Jockey. The area is expected to be without a broadband service for possibly up to 7 days.

Meanwhile, Tipperary Roads Policing Unit have also removed two other cars from our roads yesterday.
The first vehicle was intercepted in Thurles, with the driver found to have no insurance and no Road Tax.

The second vehicle was seized in the Templemore area, with the driver found to be without Insurance; NCT; Road Tax; being a Learner Driver unaccompanied, and exhibiting no L-Plates.

All drivers now face court proceedings.

Warning To Thurles Motorists & Pedestrians.

Motorists and pedestrians are being warned tonight to take extreme care when traversing the new €500,000 Bowes Corner road upgrade project here in Thurles.

Motorists will find themselves leaving a bright area and entering a darkened area, before, too late experiencing the surface, shown above, which could result in a tyre blowout or broken axle.

It would appear that those contracted to work on the Bowe’s Corner project went off for the Halloween weekend and the picture shown here, above, indicates their lack of dedication and the lack of dedication by Tipperary Co. Council engineers, latter handsomely paid to oversee such project disasters.

Note: No warning signs; no flashing lights and the water levels, in relation to the depth of the potholes, are extremely deceiving.

No Information On Why Thurles Street Lights Remain Extinguished During Rush Hour.

We have been receiving a number of queries over the past 6 weeks, with regards to the non-availability of public lighting in Liberty Square, Thurles, during the dark evening rush hour period.

We were aware that despite an energy crisis here in Ireland, over 56 lamp standards continuously remain lighting over a 24 hour period, each day, within the Thurles town precinct.
However, motorists are now informing us that lights are not illuminating our streets, as the local work force return home from their places of employment.

We sent out our “eye in the sky” to investigate at 5.45pm this evening, October 27th 2022.

See drone images hereunder:

**Liberty Square Thurles, October 27th, 2022. Time 5:45pm**.
*Drone Image: G. Willoughby*

We discovered that despite the promises by local Municipal District councillors and Tipperary Co. Council, to increased footfall on our widened pavements, same has been reduced to just one person riding on an electric scooter, and indeed most of the roadway lighting remains indeed extinguished as was reported.

Thurles.Info admits, for the first time, to being totally flummoxed, confused and perplexed and we apologise wholeheartedly, with complete sincerity, to our many readers, for being unable to answer their query.

Pointless emailing local councillors and officials, as they refuse to answer or are not familiar in the use of their email system. Still maybe, one of our Councillors might straighten their index finger and message us; spelling out the problem with the solution, before someone gets hit by a motor vehicle.