Strong response to lights fund

A total of more than €11,000 has been received in donations by KCA towards the cost of the Christmas lights.



The total cost is €13,000, and KCA chairman Kieran Forde said there there a couple of businesses on Main Street which can still be 'chased up' for promised donations.

"A good few businesses did contribute, but there were a number of notable exceptions, which potentially benefited from having the lights," he said.

In an ensuing discussion, there was some criticism of aspects of the lighting, notably a lack of consistency in how the loops were laid out.

"They were hanging down over windows in places," Herbie Sheehan commented, while Siobhan Tutty-Bardon remarked on how some of the strings of lights didn't work at times.

Kieran Forde suggested that they should invest in more profile units for next year, and wondered if perhaps this was a good time to buy them cheaply. Margaret O'Shea said the ones they did have 'made a huge difference'.



An idea that perhaps a container load of profiles could be brought in cheaply from China, where they were made, was tossed about. Kieran Forde suggested that the container shipping cost would be about $2,000 plus VAT and the cost of the contents. Tony Gahan wondered if they could share a container load with another community?



Brian Byrne.