Madam, – I have just returned from a short break in Aughrim, Co Wicklow. In the course of my work I travel from north Donegal to Cork, but nowhere have I encountered the deplorable road conditions that I experienced in Co Wicklow.
Roads have been wholly and partially washed away. Potholes the size of bath tubs are commonplace. Is this the legacy of the Celtic Tiger? No money left in the kitty to repair roads to enable people to go about their daily business?
If this is the rustic image, the pot-holed byways, of rural Ireland that the Government wants tourists (Italians and Germans were plentiful in Glendalough) to experience, then it should leave the roads in the Garden of Ireland to disintegrate altogether.
Otherwise, I suggest resources are allocated with utmost urgency. This is a local problem but a national disgrace. – Yours, etc,