Calls to upgrade road signage

Cavan County Council is being urged to upgrade road signs around the county.

The call was made by Cllr Paddy McDonald at the October meeting of the Bailieborough Cootehill Municipal District Authority saying many signs are “old and rusted”.

He also said many roads do not have road number signs.

Acting senior executive engineer, Clinton Mulligan, said such works would have to be “funded through the council’s own resources”.

When the councillors queried how chevrons had been replaced, John McKernan, Roads Department senior engineer, confirmed it had been financed through a safety scheme. He added that, if there was a “specific location, which is very bad,” to notify the council and “we will look at it”.

Following a query from Cllr Carmel Brady, the executive confirmed the same people are responsible for putting up signage and fixing flooding issues.

Cllr Brady deemed it was a case of “do you want signs put up or the flooding fixed?”

Cillr Aiden Fitzpatrick (FF) stated: “We would put the signs up ourselves but then we would be responsible if something happened to them.”