Kilrush party celebrates reopening of Moore Street

ONE of Kilrush’s most famous streets reopened for business on Saturday, following significant road works carried out over the last seven weeks.
However, Moore Street and nearby Steward Street only reopened to traffic at 4.30pm on Tuesday.
To mark the event on Saturday, a street party was held in Moore Street, bringing together current and former residents.
The street, which was home to 125 businesses in the 1840s, has since become dilapidated, with only a handful of businesses remaining open. The poor state of the road, which was the responsibility of the NRA, also hindered the possibility of reinvigorating the street.
Local town councillors have been campaigning for several years to upgrade the street. At this month’s meeting of Kilrush Town Council, members suggested that the street should be supported in its efforts to rejuvenate.
Although businesses experienced a slow down while the street was closed to vehicular access, Councillor Marian McMahon Jones, who is a business person on the street, said the people working on the road did their best to complete the project as early as possible.
“Business people do appreciate the fact that they worked as quickly as they could. Come hail, rain or snow they continued to work. On a daily basis you could see huge progress being made,” the Fine Gael town councillor commented.