Solar seats, maybe for Market Square?

In the course of some of my automotive work, I stopped off for a coffee yesterday in the very pretty resort village of Promosten in Croatia, writes Brian Byrne.

It's a quite beautiful place, and its fishing village tradition is illustrated by the sculpture of the fisherman mending his nets shown above.

But I was struck also by the very 21st century seats on the beachfront, which are solar panels pulling in energy from the sun to power an integrated internet hotspot and charging points for mobile phones.

That's a thought for us to suggest to Kildare County Council whenever the public consultation on the Market Square Project gets under way.

A Conceptual Plan prepared for the project, which has already been allocated €200,000 from the Government, has been shown to councillors of the Naas MD, but not to the public, pending the preparation of a Part 8 application.

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