Funding boost for Killeenmore

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

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 [...]

Flood Relief Funding for Co. Kildare

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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 [...]

Updates on Killeenmór

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

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 [...]

Fresh flooding at Kileenmór

Monday, January 18th, 2010

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 [...]

Prime Time on Sallins Flooding

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Last night (8th Jan, 2010), RTE Prime Time screened a program on the floods in Sallins, amongst other places.
I spoke to the program makers, on camera, for about thirty minutes, however I did not feature in the eventual program. I did show them around the local landscape and bring them to the site of the [...]

Flooding Relief Efforts

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

For the benefit of anyone who may have been affected by the recent flooding at Sallins, there is a new page here with pointers to the different resources available.

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Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Great night had last night at our Waterways benefit night fundraiser, in Boss Byrnes lounge. I was on quizmaster duty and we had a full house, over 25 tables entered and some great prizes, thanks to all our sponsors and supporters. We even had music at the interval, from Sallins latest trad sensations, Sult Na [...]

Sallins Flooding Updates

Monday, December 14th, 2009

It’s two weeks now since the Waterways was flooded and there’s a lot of water under the bridge (culvert) since.

A delegation comprised of residents reps and the area councillors has been in talks with the county council about solving the problem longer term. As mentioned in previous post this will involve an upgrade of the [...]

The day after

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

I did a bit of research the last few days. I’ve had a lot of conversations with engineers, with residents in around the waterways and even walked (with the landowners) across farmland in the Kerdiffstown area bordering the Waterways development.  Consensus is now building as to what went wrong and it doesn’t appear that it [...]

Water Cleared

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Quick update, the water is now gone from the Waterways development. A volunteer team led by local engineer Brendan McCauley dug a trench out across the Kerdiffstown road. The problem was that a stream running behind the Waterways site has historically served as a feeder for the canal and an offrun for surface water from [...]