The project is currently at design stage and a 5.8km route has been selected, going from the Dublin Road to the Boyle Road.

The €4.5-million public realm project got under way last month and will take around 18 months to complete.

Brian O'Connor spoke out strongly at an inquest into two people who died in a single-vehicle crash in Ballaghaderreen two years ago.

Contracts were recently signed for the 3.5 million euro project, and it's due to be substantially complete in August 2025.

The driver of the van has been taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

It was recently announced he would be leaving the west to become an Auxilary Bishop of Dublin. 

The local authority will now refurbish the houses and let them out as social homes.

The public meeting took place following confirmation that planned modular housing for Ukrainian refugees would now not go ahead at a site in Ballaghaderreen.