Finally some progress…A public consultation process will take place in ‘The Conyngham Arms Hotel’, Slane on Thursday the 14th of November between 2.00 and 8 00pm. On public display will be the emerging preferred route for the Slane Bypass. Please come and have your say. This is (yet) another opportunity to inform yourself before this route goes to Oral Hearing. With any luck, we won’t have to wait another 2 years before we see some real progress planning-wise on this vital piece of infrastructure for our village.

The Bypass Slane Campaign group have described any further delays in progressing the Slane Bypass to An Bord Pleanala as unacceptable and call on Meath County Council to announce the emerging preferred route. Deputy Thomas Byrne recently raised the issue of the Slane Bypass with the Minister for Transport, Shane Ross, in the Dail with Deputy Ross advising that the project will proceed to An Bord Pleanala in 2021. This time scale is unambitious and under-whelming and fails to address the real and present danger that the current N2 through Slane village presents to residents and the travelling public on a daily basis.