UPDATE: The Caragh Bridge to be reopened tomorrow, Mayor of Newbridge-Kildare confirms

By Reporter
Published 28th Mar 2022, 17:33 GMT
The Liffey Bridge in Caragh / PHOTO: AISHLING CONWAYplaceholder image
The Liffey Bridge in Caragh / PHOTO: AISHLING CONWAY

The Caragh Bridge will soon be reopened to traffic, the Mayor of the Newbridge-Kildare District has confirmed.

Repair works on the bridge commenced back in February.

Earlier this month, Fianna Fáil councillor Rob Power said: "A conservation architect is working on the bridge, he is waiting to see a trial wall, and then give the go ahead on the bridge.

"But for the vast majority of women there was something more, something deeply personal and familiar about this horrible event: we've heard that fear in the hundreds and thousands of stories told over the last week."placeholder image
"But for the vast majority of women there was something more, something deeply personal and familiar about this horrible event: we've heard that fear in the hundreds and thousands of stories told over the last week."

Fianna Fáil Cllr Rob Power, Mayor of the Newbridge-Kildare District 

The bridge is best known as the oldest bridge over the River Liffey.

It was rendered out-of-action after a road-sweeping vehicle crashed into the bridge on January 11 last.

This resulted in a three metre section of the wall was knocked into the river below the bridge

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