“The emergency services don’t want to be out at serious accidents again” says local fireman in appeal to road users across Carlow and Kilkenny to take extra care this Bank Holiday Weekend

Local emergency services personnel are pleading with road users to ensure they take extra care this Bank Holiday Weekend.

With more people travelling about, the risk of a crash increases and nobody wants to see the death toll rise any further.

42 people have died on Irish roads already this year, among them three young people in Carlow, a young man in Kilkenny and another who died in Co Limerick. 

Yesterday (Thursday) the latest road safety campaign was launched at Foulkstown, the scene of a recent fatality, with members of An Garda Síochána, Fire Brigade, Civil Defence and Kilkenny County Council.

Divisional Roads Policing Inspector Paul Donohoe spoke to our Brian Redmond with Edwina Grace on The KCLR Daily yesterday – hear what he had to say here.

You can also hear the pleas from Civil Defence’s Michelle Colclough, Fireman Paul O’Sullivan and Kilkenny County Council Road Safety Officer Lorraine McGuire here;