Christmas lights to be greener

The Christmas lights display will cost less to maintain and run this year, Kilcullen Community action has been told.

At the recent meeting of the organisation, J J Warren said there would be more extensive use of LEDs this year, eliminating the traditional tungsten bulbs.

"This is much better for the environment too," Noel Clare commented at the news. "The old bulbs are going to be illegal soon anyhow."

There was some discussion on the need for more 'profile' lights, with J J Warren estimating some 4-6 more should be bought.

Chairman Kieran Forde wondered if they couldn't make some of the profiles themselves, putting LED strings around appropriate shapes. This thought led to a suggestion that some of the existing old profiles might be updated by the same method.

Brian Byrne.