Road under stress

This is a bit of road which was given a major and expensive resurfacing less than a year ago.



It is the link between the Athy Road and the Sunnyhill Road, used extensively as a 'bypass' to Kilcullen by many cars and an awful lot of lorries, including cement trucks.

The edge here is already badly crumbled. This is how potholes happen. It begs some questions about the foundations of our roads edges.

It also begs the question as to why nobody is considering opening a link to Kinneagh Hill off the M7 motorway, which would provide a proper bypass to Kilcullen for all that traffic trying to go places west and southwest?

Brian Byrne.