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Thurles Blisters Burst After Just 6 Weeks.

Blister tactile paving, installed in early September of this year; same, as part of the long awaited and current upgrading at the junction at Irerrin Road and Kickham Street in Thurles, are already disintegrating.

**New blister style tactile paving & kerbing shows signs of physical breakdown just 6 weeks after installation**.

This paving is designed especially for visually impaired pedestrians (and those with the more modern affliction of staring intently at their mobile phone screens, surfing Google), while out walking.

Seriously, same should indicate controlled and uncontrolled street crossings, thus warning pedestrians that the pavement is about to end and the road begins.

The paving on this junction indicates an uncontrolled crossing and is earth buff (light earth brown) in colour, same designed colour to provide an additional visual cue for those with low vision.

Sadly, as in this case, engineers in their design, failed to understand that same are not suitable for busy street corners or for parking areas where 18 wheeler trucks halt, forced to park on a narrow street in an effort to off-load their merchandise.

Ah, sure it’s only another €1,000 or so of taxpayers money to spend to correct; a small price to pay for engineering stupidity.

Proprietors Of A Thurles Home Refusing To Accept Another Winter Of Council Inaction.

For the second consecutive year, the proprietors of a house on the Dublin Road, east of Thurles, is being relentlessly flooded, and they are refusing to accept another winter of inaction.
The cause is not a natural calamity, but a man-made one: a raised, sloped footpath, installed by Tipperary County Council, now channels rainwater directly into their home.

**Photograph of internal damage and rising damp caused by water ingress**.
*Pic: G. Willoughby*.

Despite repeated calls to Thurles Municipal District Council staff, and despite entreaties to local elected councillors, not one single corrective step has been taken in the past two years.
After the heavy rain early this morning, we filmed video evidence-plain and unmistakable-that identifies water streaming down the garden path to flow under the front door, thus saturating the front hallway and creating rising damp, which today is visible, creeping mercilessly upward on the interior walls.

Outside, the tarmac footpath, which the council built, same is already sinking, forming a dangerous slope unto the property, turning the approach to the house into a funnel for floodwater.

We have this evening sent copies of the video and images to Ms. Sharon Scully (Thurles Municipal District Administrator) and Ms. Sinead Carr (CE, Tipperary County Council), asking that they immediately contact the elderly occupants, whom we have named in our correspondence.
The proprietors are terrified that a night of heavy rain will see their furniture floating, their home destroyed, and their security swept away.
The proprietors are now seeking immediate and urgent remedial action and full restitution for the damage caused by the councils inaction.

Fatal Road Traffic Collision In Co. Tipperary.

Gardaí are investigating a fatal road traffic collision that occurred on the N24 at Cahir, Co. Tipperary, this morning, Sunday 21st September 2025.

The collision, which took place at approximately 11:05am, involved a motorcycle and a van. The motorcyclist, a man aged in his 70s, was pronounced deceased at the scene. No other injuries were reported.

Gardaí are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forward.
Road users who were travelling in the area between 10:45am and 11:15am and who may have phone camera footage or dash-cam footage are asked to make same available to investigating Gardaí.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Cahir Garda Station Tel: (052) 7445630, the Garda Confidential Line Tel: 1800 666 111, or indeed any Garda Station.

Further investigations are continuing.

Pedestrian In 50s Seriously Injured In Tipperary Collision.

A lady pedestrian in her 50s was seriously injured in a three-vehicle crash in Co Tipperary on Friday morning.

The collision happened at around 8:00am on the R498 at Latteragh, Nenagh.
Emergency services attended the scene and the woman was airlifted to University Hospital Galway via Shannon-based Irish Coast Guard helicopter, Rescue 115.
Garda Forensic Collision Investigators have since examined the area. No other injuries were reported.

Gardaí are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident, or who may have dash-cam footage from the area between 7:45am and 8:15am, to contact Nenagh Garda Station Tel: (067) 50450, the Garda confidential line Tel: 1800 666 111, or indeed any Garda station as investigations continue.

Thurles Road Signs & Road Safety Failures Highlight Council Waste.

We have been watching it, and yes, yet another road sign on Liberty Square, in Thurles, has met its “Waterloo”, demolished by traffic attempting to turn west on a narrow street scape that has become a hazard since its so-called upgrade.

**Sign on Liberty Square, central, left prostrate for 6 days**.

As with the nearby ESB cabinet highlighted on September 7th last, the sign was positioned far too low to be visible to drivers. This latest casualty has lain in the middle of Liberty Square for six full days before being retrieved today, a symbol of official neglect.

This pattern has become all too familiar. In the past three years alone, railings at the Slievenamon Road junction have been flattened three times by heavy vehicles. Five signposts, installed perilously close to narrow traffic lanes, have been damaged. Two remain not replaced. Add these collisions to continuously adjusted pedestrian crossing lights, to a set of traffic lights, not to mention street bicycle racks and everyone can see why Thurles needs a bypass.

**Six damaged traffic signs on a 4.7 km *(2.9 miles)* stretch of roadway near Thurles, Co. Tipperary**.

The problem is not just confined to Thurles. On the short 4.7 km (2.9 miles) stretch of road, between the villages of Littleton and Horse & Jockey; same a six-minute drive, I observed six damaged signs just today. (See above picture). Two remain lying flattened at the scene; four have been removed altogether.
In at least two years, Tipperary County Council has made no effort to replace any of them. Which begs the obvious question, if these signs were dispensable for two years, why were they installed in the first place? The answer points to waste; waste of taxpayers’ money and a lack of responsibility in both planning and maintenance.

While motorists and pedestrians deal daily with poor visibility and dangerous road layouts, Tipperary County Council continues to spend without accountability, leaving the public to pay the price in both safety and wasted resources.

The evidence shown above speaks for itself. The waste of taxpayers’ money by Tipperary County Council still continues, unchecked.