Plea for flowers funding

With 210 floral window boxes now making Kilcullen's main street a growing riot of colour, Kilcullen Community Action has put out a special appeal to raise the €10,000 cost.

The effort this year added a number of hanging baskets to the window boxes project which was 'seeded' last year by local businessman Brian Fallon.

All boxes and baskets now have their own permanent automatic irrigation system.

"It works out at €50 per unit, box or basket," says local Tidy Towns leader Noel Clare. "Already generous donations have been coming in, but anybody else who wants to support the project can give a donation to any member of our group, or KCA."

The more than €1,500 raised from a recent street and pubs collection by KCA has already been put towards the costs of the project.