Monday, January 05, 2009

We wish you ...

New Year resolutions are hard work. For Kilcullen in 2009, let's have a wish list instead. Your Diary has a few of its own. Add to them, and let us know ... we don't subscribe to the superstition that a wish should be kept secret. Otherwise how can it be made come true?

We wish that all our readers and their families enjoy good health and reasonable expectations, because being a high-flying Celtic Tiger has truly proven to be no guarantee for long life or happiness.

We hope that the volunteer effort of Kilcullen Community Action is both recognised and augmented by the community which that group has most unstintingly served for many years.

Acknowledging the very positive input of Kildare County Council to the street cleaning programme in the last year, we would still like them to communicate with the people of Kilcullen before they implement such dross as the grotty reflective tape on the bollards (and arrogantly replacing it when the community showed actively what it thought of the idea). Y'know, sometimes it is good to admit one is wrong?

It would be nice if the parents of Kilcullen's (very minority) wayward young people took their offspring in hand and made them aware of the ancient concept of respect for where they live.

We would really like those who park their cars badly and illegally to consider the effects of their actions before they exit their vehicles.

Ah, yes ... while KCC's street cleaning crews are working hard to pick up the litter, wouldn't it be nice if we didn't drop it ourselves in the first place?

Finally, it happens that we have a good crew of An Garda in Kilcullen at the moment; let's appreciate what they do, and do what we can to make their jobs doable.

Here endeth the Diary lesson for the start of 2009. But feel free to add your own wishes for Kilcullen through the rest of the year.

Brian Byrne.