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Mountmellick GAA field
A proposed bypass around Mountmellick that would cut through two local GAA pitches is 'nonsensical' as it would require buying them out, a Laois TD has told the National Transport Authority (NTA).
Willie Aird raised the proposed bypass route around the Laois town at a Dáil committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery.
He told officials and fellow TDs that the impacted clubs are The Rock and Mountmellick. He said he did not know how it came about or created the routes.
"Who is going to buy out two GAA clubs? It is nonsensical. There are alternative routes, we all know that," said Dep Aird.
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The proposal is based on a Laois County Council plan for a double bypass for the town. The route referenced by Dep Aird would ease some of the traffic coming from Emo direction.
Other routes recommended by engineers have been planned to divert N80 traffic away from the town centre.
Neither proposed roads are in the National Development Plan.
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