Bank comes to flowers rescue

Kildare County Council has refused to allow a connection to the town water mains for the irrigation system on the decorative flower standards on the bridge.



The recent meeting of Kilcullen Community Action heard that Bank of Ireland had subsequently agreed to allow a connection from its own premises, as well as permitting the installation of a tank to contain the water.

"We insisted that there was no point in putting up the baskets at all unless some form of irrigation was included," KCA chairman Kieran Forde said. "They did include piping, but then left the niceties of the system to us to sort out. They more or less said it was our baby."

But even with water available, it seems that the design of the basket 'bowls' doesn't make it easy to implement the irrigation.

The original standards were deemed too low by KCA and when they were extended the plastic piping which was installed originally was left short.

Kieran Forde said that plates in the bowls are also blocking access to the pipes, and will have to be drilled.

Brian Byrne.