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Intention To Close Littleton To Thurles Road (L-4157), Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

Under the temporary Closing of Roads Act, 1993-2015, (Section 75 Of The Roads Act 1993) Roads Regulations, 1994, Tipperary County Council intend to close the Littleton to Thurles local road (L-4157), Thurles, Co. Tippeary from 00:00hrs from Thursday 13th November 2025 until 23:59 hrs on Friday 19th December 2025.

Traffic will be diverted via the N62 and the N75.

Reason For Closure:
To facilitate the installation of a water main for Uisce Eireann upgrade works.

Objections to the proposed temporary closure may be submitted in writing to Road Closures, Roads & Transportation, Tipperary County Council, Civic Offices, Limerick Road, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary not later than 12:00 noon on Thursday 30th October 2025 or by e-mail to roadclosures@tipperarycoco.ie

Traffic Management On O’Donovan Rossa Street, Thurles, Co.Tipperary, Tomorrow.

Temporary Traffic Management – N62 O’Donovan Rossa Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, Tomorrow.

Commuters, especially those availing of schools situated in the immediate area, please take note.

Per Tipperary Co. Council; temporary traffic management will be in place on the N62 at O’Donovan Rossa Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, from 5.00am until 8.00am on tomorrow morning, Friday October 17th 2025.

Lane closure – traffic will navigate around the working space.

Temporary Traffic Management, Turtulla, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

Public Service Announcement – Commuters Take Note.

**Turtulla Junction, N62 Thurles, Co. Tipperary**.

Temporary Traffic Management will be operational on the N62 at Turtulla Junction, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, beginning, Thursday October 16th 2025 until October 17th 2025.

Delays can be expected.

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.