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TWO Kilrush town councillors have expressed shock at learning that three options relating to the traffic management of a junction leading to the Ennis road in Kilrush, were on public display for all of December. Neither councillor was aware of this. The safety of the junction, where six roads converge on the Ennis Road, has been questioned regularly at town council meetings.

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REVENUE’S offices in Ennis closed its doors to the public on Monday as staff at the Kilrush Road now take on administration of the property tax.

COMMENT We are all expected to do our patriotic duty and not be always negative when discussing the economy. Political commentators should be positive rather than spreading the gospel of doom and gloom. Or so we are told.  

Public representatives were urged to put their hands in their pockets and pay €31.25 each per year to counteract what one councillor called “a famine of ideas” and to reward creative thinking.

IRISH Rail are being urged to install a proper warning system at level crossings on the  Ennis to Limerick rail line after an elderly farmer was fortunate to escape serious injury when his car was hit by a passing train.

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