I was advised last week that accessibility works at Sallins and Naas train station are at an advanced stage of design and that Irish Rail have met with council officials in pre-planning sessions re the required works. I was told they expect to apply for planning permission in July and work will commence as soon as [...]
It’s been a busy few weeks in the life of waste processing in the greater Naas area, and in particular on one stretch of road along Kerdiffstown and Monread, where not one but three current or proposed waste complexes have received permissions, injunctions or stays of execution over the recent while. I summarise below the [...]
I recently made a submission to Irish Rail (IR) on the new timetable, on behalf of NASRUG and as part of a process of ongoing consultation with IR. The hope is this may be considered as part of the next issued timetable, which is due out in December, but an outside chance of coming onstream [...]
I have spoken about Killeenmore a few times on this blog recently and how I was disappointed to see them miss out on the first round of funding announced last month for flooding relief works in the local area.
Good news this week as I have kept onto our Dáil reps and the council officials and [...]
Funding has now been announced for flood relief works in Kildare and the government has made a multi-million available to local authorities for such works. Funding has been drawn down by Kildare County Council for the following projects:
Minor Flood Relief & Coastal Protection Programme 2010 - Kildare County Council
Butterstream, Clane Construction of flood relief structures €356,142
Ardclough Construction [...]
NASRUG met with IrishRail at the start of last week to discuss various issues on the rail service from Naas and Sallins station. Full minutes are below.
Meeting Report
NASRUG met with Irish Rail on Monday 25th March.
Present for NASRUG: James Lawless, John Cunniffe, Conor McGarry
Present for Irish Rail: Myles McHugh
1. Timetable
JL queried whether a new timetable [...]
There has been much furore over the past few days about a proposal to construct a bio-energy, power generation plant at Kerdiffstown (Sallins) to be accessed via the Monread road.
In brief the plant would ‘compost’ organic waste materials to produce an effluent gas which would then be converted to power / electricity. This is a [...]
I was in N.U.I. Maynooth earlier this week, where I gave a guest lecture on social media. The lecture title was ’socialnomics’ and I focused on technology and particular the web was changing the world and how it could and should be used by organisations. I can share the slides with [...]
I attended a meeting last Wednesday night, organised by the residents of Killeenmór to discuss the recent and recurring flooding issues. The meeting was also attended by Cllr. Liam Doyle, Cllr. Brendan Weld and Michael Fitzpatrick (who had to vote in the Dáil) was ably represented by his aide Johnny Callaghan.
The map above shows some [...]
The Kileenmór region just outside Sallins was flooded again last weekend for the third time in three months. There are maybe twenty houses along this road and they have been hit each time it rains with water on the road, in the gardens and in some of the houses. The water is coming from the [...]