OPW needs to give green light for drainage at Diffagher River

Cllr Padraig Fallon proposed that contact be made with Coillte and the OPW seeking drainage at Diffagher River from Lisacoghill back to Belhavel, near Drumkeerin.

He said, "We've done this before with the OPW and there hasn't been a favourable response but if we could ask the OPW their stats on it and a statement from them saying they wouldn't be opposed to works being carried out and get something similar from the local authority, we may be able to get Coillte to do something about it." 

Cllr Mary Bohan said she has made contact with the OPW herself in relation to the issue. 

"I think it needs to be done because what is going to happen is it is going to get flooded again and the land and the road is going to get flooded."

She said she believed the OPW needed to "give their permission for Coillte and local farmers to do their part," adding "there is an urgency about it."

Cllr Fallon said that in the last three years, the road "has flooded on a number of occasions."