Blooming on Main Street

The first work on what is hoped to make for a really colourful Kilcullen soon has got under way on the provision of flower boxes for the first floor windows of premises on Main Street.

The proprietor of Fallons Cafe Bar, Brian Fallon, has bought 200 window boxes for the project. He is also sponsoring an automatic irrigation system for the boxes.

The first units have been mounted on his own premises, and the rest of them will be set out according as work on the irrigation system is completed. At the moment, the unsettled weather has held up some of the process.

"It's a once-off investment," Brian Fallon says. "I hope that if it is nice enough this year and creates a buzz, people will plant the boxes themselves next year."

A spokesman for Kilcullen Community Action, which manages the efforts of the town in the national Tidy Towns Awards, said it is great to see a local businessman providing such a large input into making the town look better.

Brian Byrne.