Playground progress

Next summer should see 'significant movement' in the plans for a playground for Kilcullen.

According to Orla O'Neill of the group working on the project, the main problem at the moment is the acquisition of a site.

"We need 1,000 square metres," she says. "Our preferred site is near the Community Sports and Recreation Complex, because it can be monitored with cameras."

But issues because of the multiple landowners involved in the preferred site acquisition may well mean the playground will go elsewhere.

"For instance, Scoil Bhride has to be very careful about what land it gives away, with classrooms bulging," Orla says. "If we don't get this site, though, we'll get another. But it is still our preferred site."

Brian Byrne.