‘A slap in the face for rate-payers’.
That’s how one local councillor has described the decision to remove flowers along Tullow Street in Carlow town.
Members of the council say they were told last week that the money isn’t there to maintain the shrubs so they’ve been taken away.
Sinn Fein Councillor Jim Deane says its a disgrace while Fianna Fails Jennifer Murnane O Connor fears this is just the start of it.