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.
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.
With all of the job creation here in Ireland, being created in Dublin; the EPA and An Taisce are rightly worried about the amount of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂) within the city.
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂) comes mainly from cars, vans and trucks. It is an air pollutant and can have very harmful effects on your heart and lungs.
Down here in the clean air of Co. Tipperary we do not have to worry so much about Nitrogen Dioxide, since most of our rural working population have long since migrated to Dublin, mainly due to the total inability of our Tipperary elected Teachta Dálaí, who have demonstrated limited ability and even less authoritativeness within our government, when it comes to job creation.
Tipperary migrants please note: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and An Taisce are now looking for 1,000 people who live in Dublin to become citizen scientists and measure air pollution. Selected participants will receive a small tube that will measure Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂) in their local area. The sampling will be carried out over October and November this year.
If you are interested in helping the EPA and An Taisce you can get more information and also register to participate on the Clean Air Together project website www.cleanairtogether.ie.
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce launched a Citizen Science project, to gather new data on the quality of the air being breathe in Dublin. The Clean Air Together project is looking for 1,000 Dublin citizens to help measure air pollution in their local area. EPA Senior Scientist MsStephanie Long said: “According to a recent EPA survey, four out of every five people in Ireland believe that air pollution is a serious health risk, and two thirds of us think that it is a serious national problem. Recent EPA data shows that nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), which can have harmful effects on your lungs, is increasing in some areas around Dublin. By taking part in the Clean Air Together project you will know your NO₂. You will measure how much nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) is in your local area and your measurement – together with all of the other data collected – will give us a detailed picture of air quality in the city.”
Taking part in the project could not be simpler – you don’t need to be an expert, and the project is open to everyone. Once registered and selected, you will receive a pack in the post containing a small tube. Your pack will also include simple instructions for installing the tube outside your home or business and how to register it online.
As one of the 1,000 participants, you will install your tube on Friday 8thOctober and leave it in place for four weeks. The tube will measure the levels of nitrogen dioxide – without you even knowing that it is there. After the four weeks, you will post the tube back to the EPA free of charge. Your tube will be sent for analysis and you will get a copy of your results once it has been analysed.
Mr Anthony Purcell from An Taisce added: “The Clean Air Together project is a great opportunity for people from all communities and backgrounds in Dublin to become Citizen Scientists. This small tube for measuring NO₂ is no bigger than the size of a crayon and is simple to set up. While small, this tube can gather impressive information; the data from this project will promote positive changes towards better air quality in Dublin and inform public policy and action.”
You can sign up to be selected for the project on the Clean Air Together website cleanairtogether.ie.
All the results from this project will be mapped on the Clean Air Together website so that you can compare your results to those in other parts of Dublin. These results will then be combined with existing EPA air quality results to give a better picture of air quality in Dublin.
For further information on air pollution in Ireland visit the EPA at: https://airquality.ie/
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 1,531ydsor229yds 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 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.
New Holycross Road Roundabout.
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.
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