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Warning To Thurles Motorists – Single Vehicle Collision On N75.

7:45pm, September 8th 2021: A single vehicle collision has just occurred on the Dublin road east of Thurles, (N75) opposite the junction of Ard Carraig and the entrance to the Anner Hotel at Lognafulla in the town.
Two sections of Thurles fire brigade, Gardaí, Paramedics and the Ambulance Service are currently in attendance at the scene.

While the cause of the accident has yet to be determined; motorists are being asked if possible to avoid the area.

Male Loses Life In Tipperary Road Crash.

Sadly, a man in his 40s has lost his life following a road traffic accident near Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary.

The single-vehicle crash happened on the Faugheen Road at Mainstown in Carrick-on-Suir, Co, Tipperary, yesterday evening.

The driver, who was the only occupant of the car, received fatal injuries in the crash. His body has been taken to the mortuary at South Tipperary General Hospital, where a post-mortem is expected to be carried out.

The road at Mainstown, from Faugheen towards Carrick on Suir, is currently closed pending a forensic examination by Garda Investigators, with local diversions remaining currently in place.

Gardaí are appealing to any road users who were travelling between Faugheen and Carrick on Suir between 9:00pm and 9:30pm on yesterday evening, and who may have dash cam footage to please make same available.

Anyone with information on the crash is asked to contact investigating Gardaí at Clonmel on Tel: 052 6177640 or the Garda Confidential Line on Tel: 1800 666 111.

Woman Dies In Motorway Traffic Accident On M8 Near Thurles.

A female, understood to be aged in her 60s, has died following a road traffic collision on the M8 motorway here in Co. Tipperary.

Thurles Gardaí are investigating the accident which occurred in the townland of Longford Pass on the M8 motorway, in the southbound lane, south of Junction 4 (Urlingford) and Junction 5 (Two Mile Borris, Co. Tipperary) at approximately 11:30am this morning, Tuesday.

The sole occupant of her car; she was fatally injured when involved in a collision with a truck.

Her body has now been removed from the scene to the mortuary in South Tipperary General Hospital. A post mortem is expected to take place in due course. The male driver of the truck, aged in his mid-20s, was treated for shock at the scene by attending paramedics.

The road remains closed in both directions with diversions in place as Garda Forensic Collision Investigators conduct an examination of the scene.

Thurles Gardaí are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to come forward. Any road users who were travelling on the M8 southbound, south of Junction 4, and who may have dash camera footage is asked to make same available to Gardaí.

Thurles Garda Station can be contacted on Tel: (0504) 25100; the Garda Confidential Line Tel: 1800 666 111, or indeed any garda station.

Fly Tipping & Total Disregard For Tax Payers Money.

The term “fly tipping” is derived from the verb tip, meaning to “throw out”, and from fly, meaning to “throw away carelessly”.

Simply put, “fly tipping” is the dumping of unwanted waste material illegally, onto land, for which no license has been acquired to accept waste. Characteristics quite often of offenders include construction and landscaping contractors.

Note, all of the pictures shown in the slideshow immediately hereunder are of individual signs, evidenced by their different backgrounds, with no picture repeated.

So we ask 4 simple questions:

(1) Does the failure to remove 34 plastic road signs and some 18 plastic bollards from a 1.4 kilometre stretch of the Yellow Lough road (R659) constitute fly tipping?
[For those of us who have difficulty with metric measurement, 1.4 kilometres represents 1,531yds or 229yds short of 1 mile in distance.]

(2) Why the need for 34 signs on a stretch of road measuring just 1531yds?

(3) What was the cost of these signs and how long more are we going to tolerate the shear waste of taxpayers hard earned money, same being squandered jointly by Tipperary County Council; Transport Infrastructure Ireland and Thurles Municipal District?

(4) How can Tipperary County Council bring those involved in fly tipping, before the courts for prosecution, when Tipperary County Council, themselves, together with Transport Infrastructure Ireland; Thurles Municipal District Council and their road building contractors stand guilty of similar transgressions?

Note: It became necessary to undertake road resurfacing on the R695, on a date beginning May 19th 2021 until May 25th 2021, (over 3 months ago) at which time all of these signs were then erected and now discarded.
Since then Mother Nature has begun to cover many of them over.

Work On New Holycross Road Roundabout Gets Underway

Work has eventually begun on the upgrade to the roundabout on the Holycross road.

Situated on the R-660, on Abbey Road, west of the town; funding of €75,000 had been allocated and announced for this project on February 1st 2019 last, some 2½ years ago.

Speaking to a few motorists, same are condemning the use of the motorway signage used in its construction, claiming that the eight massive signs now introduced, will block driving visibility, particularly facing west into late evening bright sun light, thus endangering pedestrians using the newly erected pedestrian crossings.

Agricultural contractors and members of the farming community are also unhappy with the overall upgrade, claiming the roundabout is too large and restrictive for the towing of trailers and other large machinery.

Word of warning to all motorists:
If you are travelling eastwards down Abbey Road, as you leave the roundabout do take care, [See Above] as a 4 inch deep pothole awaits to destroy a wheel rim or one of your tyres, on arrival at the other side.