'It's really really dark' call to light up Laois street at busy train station

A stretch of street near the busiest train station in Laois is "really really dark" due to broken streetlights.

Portlaoise train station exits onto Coote Street and the highly built up residential Mountmellick road in Portlaoise, with thousands of residents and commuters using the footpath daily. 

Cllr Catherine Fitzgerald tabled a motion on it to the December meeting of Portlaoise Municipal District.

She is asking Laois County Council to address the lack of public lights, between the pedestrian crossing at the GAA's Leinster Council offices, and the railway bridge.

"It's really, really dark. A lot of people use that area. I am delighted the lights are to be fixed. We have lovely new lights from there to Dunnes Stores, but there is a section at the bridge that is dark," she said.

The council's public lighting section said the lights will be fixed in the coming days.

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Cllr Caroline Dwane Stanley had seconded the motion, agreeing "it is a very dark area".