*Photograph: Joe Buckley
MORE MONEY needs to be invested in the appearance of Shannon Town which has been described as “looking a bit tired”.
Speaking at a meeting of the Shannon Municipal District, Cllr Gerry Flynn (IND) appealed for greater investment from the local authority across the county’s second largest town.
He flagged that flooding and the regular presence of surface water across the roads of Shannon is becoming far too common. “The storm drain infrastructure in Shannon which previously came under the remit of Shannon Development and they maintained it to high degree, over the last ten years the network hasn’t the capability and that is down to lack of maintenance, it needs more than bringing a suction machine and cleaning out gullies, it is a big town, it is very noticeable when you get a bit of rain that every place is flooding”.
An additional pot of funding is also needed to improve footpaths across Shannon, he maintained.
“Some people have a green agenda but my agenda is to keep people safe and we have too many overgrown trees in Shannon, if you take down one tree there are four or five replacing it, Shannon is looking a bit tired at the moment and needs new money invested,” Cllr Flynn remarked.
His views were supported by Cllr Donna McGettigan (SF), “Trees are definitely an issue, some people are complaining it is now interfering with their solar panels, they are so high that it is now interfering with their solar panels”.
