UPDATE: Shocking sewage spillage on main street of Laois town
The Main Street of a Laois town hit by a spillage of human sewage today has been cleaned up.
The N80 junction onto Mountmellick's main street suffered a spillage from a passing truck at lunchtime on Wednesday, January 25.
The waste covered the front of some shops, footpaths and the road, with traffic forced to drive through it.
Local butcher Martin Morris who had earlier posted a video of the mess, praised the council for their quick efforts, while all the time keeping traffic moving through the town.
Earlier Cllr Paddy Bracken who represents the Mountmellick Borris-in-Ossory Municipal District, told the Leinster Express that the waste on the road was understood to be human waste.
"I understand that it was a truck from a treatment plant that braked suddenly, and then drove on," he said.
Speaking at the scene, he has advised the public to stay away from the road until it was cleaned up, for health and safety reasons.