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No new carriages until 2021 for packed trains CARLOW commuters packed into train carriages heading to and from Dublin will have to wait until the end of 2021 befopre they see any new carriages.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has announced Government approval for the purchase of 41 additional rail carriages to increase capacity across the Greater Dublin Area rail networkto, providing a 34% increased capacity at peak times.

Passengers who travel to Dublin daily, have to contend with “oversubscribed train carriages”, according to Fianna Fáil Senator Jennifer Murnane O’Connor who said she was “angry” that the passengers would have to wait until the end of 2021 at the earliest before they would see any additional capacity.

Senator Murnane O’Connor said: “The problem has become so bad that last month commuters were encouraged to stagger their train journeys due to overcrowded carriages.

“This infuriating initiative fails to recognise that the people

Ellie O’Connor and Olive Delaney at Tribstock - the Ultimate Tribute Band Festival, Seven Oaks Hotel. Image by Rue Photography

commuting at those hours are doing so for work and it isn’t an option to simply take a train an hour or two later.”

She is calling for additional carriages on the Waterford to Dublin line due to trains being “dangerously overcrowded at Carlow”.

Senator Murnane O’Connor said: “Only recently we heard calls for limits or costs to be imposed on the free travel scheme to try and reduce the numbers of people using the train.

“This is absolute nonsense and needs to be nipped in the bud.

People using their travel pass are not the problem. The lack of leadership shown by Minister [for Transport] Shane Ross and the failure of the Government to oversee the expansion of the rail fleet is the real problem here.”

She said: “Those travelling from Carlow can speak to what a calamity it is, and they cannot be left in this grave situation for another two or three years without a resolution.

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The Net effect: Online boost for small firms RESEARCH by the Local Enterprise Office has shown that a small business in Carlow which establishes an online presence sees a 21% increase in sales and an 84% increase in customer enquiries, on average.

The figures also highlights that 73% of sales online among small businesses come from new customers, as opposed to existing ones.

Small companies who set up an online presence are also likely to create new jobs. On average, a small business which begins to sell online will hire 1.4 new employees.

Those companies who establish themselves on the internet also increase their opportunities to sell internationally and open their business to new markets. Three out of five small firms who set up an online presence begin to export for the first time.

Speaking about benefits of being online, Pauline Hoctor, Senior Enterprise Development Officer in Carlow, said: “Being online is a fundamental part of being in business and for companies that are not yet online, they could be missing out on sales and exports.

However, it can be daunting for some.

“The types of questions small businesses have are: how can I create a new website or add a booking system? How can I develop an app for customers?

How can I advertise my business on social media?

“The Trading Online Voucher Scheme is aimed at those businesses. Local Enterprise Office (Carlow) can provide up to €2,500 in matched funding, with expert help and training to get more businesses online,” said Pauline Hoctor.

Kieran Comerford, Head

of Enterprise with the Local Enterprise Office in Carlow County Council, said: “With a marketplace which is experiencing unprecedented challenges , opportunities and changes it is so important that we do everything we can to support our smallest firms to grow and scale.

“We will continue to assist companies realise their digital potential by providing supports that make a difference and help drive business success.”

Local Enterprise Office Carlow is helping more Irish businesses get online through the Trading Online Voucher Scheme, funded by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment This matched funding scheme gives small businesses access to expert mentoring, training and a €2,500 voucher to set themselves up online.

Tomás Kelly, Chris Fennelly, Tommy Ryan, Jade and Lorraine McGuane with Van McCann enjoying the entertainment at Tribstock - the Ultimate Tribute Band Festival, Seven Oaks Hotel. Image by Rue Photography

Saoirse’s American accent now second nature to her

ACTRESS Saoirse Ronan has revealed how the American accent she adopts in most of her movies has become almost second nature to her.

The Carlow actress was speaking on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where the host made her scream twice with her famous scare pranks.

Little Women actress Saoirse said she finds it really easy to adopt the US accent.

“It’s something I’ve just

always done,” she said, adding that her favourite accent is the drawling California Valley girl voice famously adopted by the Kardashian sisters.

“I do it all the time,” she said. “What I love about it is you don’t have to push your voice at all. You just sort of chill and talk at the same time.”

She also told DeGeneres that she found it much easier to drive in Ireland than on

Californian highways.

“I’m driving now. I had a provisional licence for a few years so I had to have a fully licensed driver beside me,” she said. “I’m a terrific driver.

I haven’t driven in LA yet because driving in LA scares me.”

The 25-year-old, who is already getting Oscar buzz for her Little Women role, lives between London and Ireland when not in Los Angeles.

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Ruth Kelly and Thokozani Siziba at Carlow Pride’s Halloween Drag Spectacular, Scraggs Alley. Image by Rue Photography

High insurance sees Go-karting close

A LOCAL go-karting business is closing down due to rising “insurance costs and rates”.

The Grid Carlow broke news on its Facebook page last weekend.

In a statement, they said: “Hi all, it’s a sad day here at The Grid. Unfortunately due to circumstances out of our control we will no longer be able to keep our doors open!

“We would like to thank all

of our customers immensely for the support we have received throughout the years and all the friends we have made along the way.

“Regrettably local rates and insurance costs have risen to amounts we simply cannot keep paying.

“We have tried our hardest to keep our doors open for the sake of our staff and customers, but now it is out of our hands.”

“It’s not fair that thousands of passengers are paying steep yearly rates for a substandard rail service.

“I intend to raise this matter with Irish Rail and ask them what their plan is in the interim to increase capacity on the Waterford – Dublin line,” the Fianna Fail senator said.

Mark Gleeson of the campaign group, Rail Users Ireland, concurs, “The intercity trains are horribly overcrowded.

People have to climb over each other to effectively get out of the carriage.

“It is a common enough occurrence across the network that the train is shorter than expected. Because there is no spare if something breaks down a train is reduced in capacity.”

Iarnród Éireann wants to order 41 new carriages but they will take two years to deliver.

Iarnród Éireann CEO Jim Meade admits there is a risk that things will get worse before they improve.

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news in brief School seeks pp for an extra classroom

A Carlow school has applied for planning permission for a new classroom with toilet and office facilities.

Carlow Educate Together National School on the Athy Road in Carlow has sought permission for the erection of a new stand alone single storey classroom unit with toilet and office facilities.

A decision is due by Carlow County Council on December 12th.

Audrey and Olwyn Owens, with Pauline Muldowney loving the music at Tribstock - the Ultimate Tribute Band Festival, Seven Oaks Hotel. Image by Rue Photography

Council wants to reduce speed limit

Palatine’s Ye Vagbonds’ hat trick of Folk awards

Carlow County Council is seeking approval from councillors in Bagenalstown to proceed with an application for the introduction of temporary speed limits on the R448 at the Royal Oak Junction.

The Bagenalstown Municipal District has agreed to close the busy slip lane coming from the Carlow direction at the Royal Oak junction.

If passed, speed limits will reduce from 100km/h to 80km/h and to 60km/h.

TWO brothers from Palatine, Carlow were named the Best Folk Band in Ireland at the RTÉ Folk Awards last week Ye Vagabonds, Brían and Diarmuid MacGloinn, won three awards at the annual event: Best Band, Best Album for The Hare’s Lament and Best Folk Track for The Foggy Dew. The duo, along with their musical collaborator Alain MacFadden, have also just picked up an award from

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Carlow County Council has received 67 planning enforcement complaints this year, it. Fifty of the complaints were closed with 92 inspections carried out. There are nine cases with court proceedings ongoing.

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the BBC for The Foggy Dew track.

“We were totally baffled!

Flumoxed!” a delighted Diarmuid told reporters.

“We really didn’t expect it.

We thought that we might be lucky enough to win one for best track, but we won three, including best band.

“It was a little bit stressful because we’re not used to making speeches, but you have to be ready, too, just in case! It was a lovely occasion

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The folk community is amazingly supportive, everyone’s on the same plane here,” said Diarmuid.

Growing up in Palatine, there was always music in the house of thier youth . Their parents are retired, but thier mother Grania was a teacher in Scoil Mhuire gan Smál, while Mike was a lecturer at IT Carlow.

Homeless numbers increases locally

THE number of homeless people in Carlow has risen significantly in the last month, according to the latest figures published by the Department of Housing.

The numbers in emergency accommodation in Carlow has now jumped back up to 27.

A total of 28 people were living in emergency accommodation in June but the figures for July showed that had dropped to 22.

The figures for August revealed that the number of homeless people in Carlow had risen slightly to 23.

This compares with the 32 people who were homeless in Carlow in April and the 29 people living in emergency accommodation in May. Nationally, the latest homeless report released by the Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy shows that 10,397 people were in emergency accommodation in Ireland in September, including 6,524 adults and 3,873 children.

This figure is an increase of 59 people compared with August’s total.

€400,000 funding for local projects A TOTAL of f €399,691 has been allocated for improvements to four towns and villages around Carlow, according to Fine Gael Deputy Pat Deering.

“This funding is extremely welcome news for Carlow, especially residents of Ardattin, Leighlinbridge, Old Leighlin and Hacketstown,” Deputy Deering said. “ Leighlinbridge has secured funding of €100,000 to erect a monument to John Tyndall, renovate the existing playground, erect speed control signs and paint rails.

Old Leighlin receives funding of €99,964.44 to carry out works in the Community Hall, including toilet refurbishment, signage and a feasibility study of a Business Model for the Community Hall.

Ardattin funding of €100,000 to further the development of the Community Hall and the old Coach House.

And Hacketstown receives funding of €99,727.11 to construct a footpath and playground; the installation of school solar signs, street lights and painting works.

The funding, allocated under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme, is a key part of the Action Plan for Rural Development and the Government’s Project Ireland 2040Programme for Rural Regeneration.

“The benefit of previous

funding under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme is now being felt countrywide and I am delighted today that even more areas in Carlow will benefit from the funding,” Deputy Deering said.

“Almost €68 million has now been approved for more than 830 projects across the country under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme since it was introduced in the second half of 2016, with more than 600 of these approved since the Action Plan for Rural Development was launched in January 2017.”

Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring said: “Interest in the Town and Village Renewal Scheme this year was very high and the scheme was heavily over-subscribed.

“It was not possible to fund all the applications received, but I am pleased that many of the towns and villages which have been successful this year are receiving funding under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme for the first time.” the Minster said announcing the funding.

Finally, Deputy Pat Deering added: “I want to thank Carlow’s local authority for engaging with local communities in these instances to help them to identify good community enhancement projects which have now received support.”

Tasty: €50k for local food firms

AN Bord Bia, Enterprise Ireland and Teagasc, are encouraging food and drink entrepreneurs from Carlow to apply for its 2020 Food Works programme as the deadline for applications approaches. Aapply via www. foodworksireland.ie The supports offered by the programme are valued at over €50,000 and include in-depth consultancy from the three agencies, access to consumer and market research, feasibility funding and bespoke mentoring

with industry experts.

Luxury Biscuit company, Lismore Foods; Wicklow Wolf, craft beer company; Fiid, producers of convenient nutritious meals; Bean and Goose, Chocolatiers from Wexford and Waterford based, Black Twist, producers of a single origin coffee and whiskey drink have all successfully participated in the Food Works programme and benefited from the wealth of mentoring advice and industry expertise that’s available.

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We are chosen to compete in European Tidy Towns contest

New Text Alert is launched in county

THE new Carlow Text Alert, an extension of the previously named Oakpark/Deerpark/ Castle Oaks text alert area, was formally launched at An Gairdín Beo last week.

The alert has been extended into the Rathnapish area of Carlow Town.

A spokesperson fo Gardaí said: “A big effort from the existing committee and those who have come on board in the new areas.

“The extension of this scheme means much greater text alert coverage in the urban area. Well done to all involved.

“We encourage all households to support this very important crime prevention initiative and join the text alert.”

Sergeant Conor Egan of Carlow Community Policing Unit and Crime Prevention Officer Peter McConnon attended the launch and gave an overview of Text Alert.

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Sarah Kinsella, spokesperson for BoyleSports said: “Massive congratulations to our Carlow customer who transformed some loose change into a wonderful €7,602. We wish them the best of luck with their winnings and happy spending.”

CARLOW Town is to compete in the 2020 Entente Florale, which will the town dazzling with colour next summer.

The prestigious event is the European equivalent of the National Tidy Towns. European judges will visit the town and award Carlow a gold, silver or bronze medal.

Carlow Tidy Towns Chairperson Ken Tucker made the announcement at the group’s annual prize-giving presentation in the Seven Oaks Hotel last week.

The event was attended

by Cathaoirleach of Carlow County Council, Councillor John Pender, Stephen Arthur of Arthur’s SuperValu, sponsors of the National Tidy Towns, and a number of local councillors.

“Already we have met representatives from Entente Florale and we have had two of our members visit Listowel, the town selected to compete this year for some tips and advice, which was well worth the

effort,” Mr Tuckers told the audience.

“It’s long way to Tipperary, but it’s a far longer one to Listowel, so thanks to Wayne Fennell and Pat Breen for making that trip of our behalf.”

The prize-giving event brought together the various housing estates, community groups and schools in the town to acknowledge their efforts to enhance their areas.

“We visited The Helix recently for the national awards ceremony and we were pleased to hear we held on to our silver medal for yet another year, but it’s not good enough and it will not be good enough for Entente Florale next year,” Mr Tucker said.

“We lost our Gold medal in 2017 and we have not been able to get it back since, so if there can ever be a better time or a better initiative to do so, it must be now for 2020,” he said.

“Let’s not lose this opportunity – it might never come again.”

BUSINESSES in Carlow Town Centre have come together to encourage people to support local enterprise and come to Carlow Town to experience 1,000 years of customer service.

The campaign, called #Carlow1000, is focused on supporting jobs in Carlow Town centre by encouraging people to come and experience Carlow in the run-up to Christmas.

From traditional pubs and brand names to independent retailers, Carlow Town has everything you need is their key message.

In the coming weeks, 10 retailers will be sharing their customer experience in partnership with Carlow Town Development Forum and Carlow County Council’s Local Enterprise Office.

Philip McDonald from Detail, who is a member of Carlow Town Development Forum, said: “Collectively we have an amazing offering for all in Carlow Town which has been developed over the generations and spending your money at independent businesses” Councillor Andrea Dalton, Mayor of the Municipal District of Carlow Town, said: “I’m really proud to be from Carlow and Mayor.

“As Mayor I look forward to this campaign and also launching the 2019 Festive Family Experience in early November.”

Chairperson of Carlow Town Development Forum and Chief Executive of Carlow County Council, Kathleen Holohan, said: “Small local businesses

are the economic backbone of Carlow Town and we are delighted to be able to support this campaign.

“We encourage everybody to shop local in the run up to Christmas and support our jobs in retail and hospitality.”

I nitial local businesses that feature in the campaign include Savana; Seven Oaks Hotel and Leisure Club; Fussy Galore; Detail Menswear; Bramleys Jewellers; Kevin Kelly Pharmacy, Carlow Farmers’ Market, Shaw’s & Lloyds Pharmacy. The campaign will include weekly prizes.

If you would like to be involved contact Pierce Kavanagh in the Local Enterprise Office on pkavanagh@carlowcoco.ie or by calling 059 912 9783

Sally McDonald, John Paul Payne, Ryan Shannon, Tom Brown-Lawlor, Ciarán Rea and Robbie O’Brien about to kick off Carlow Pride’s Halloween Drag Spectacular, Scraggs Alley. Image by Rue Photography

€7,602 Lotto coup!

THERE was an extremely happy customer in Co Carlow last week following their amazing Irish Lotto win that defied the mammoth odds of 3,800/1 for just €2.

The anonymous punter popped into their local BoyleSports shop and filled out the Irish Lotto slip.

They picked out their four numbers to come out of the

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They needed the numbers 1, 6, 7 and 23 to roll out of the machine and when they did, the tasty windfall was triggered meaning the celebrations could start to begin. Once the customer discovered the big win, they were able to exchange their €2 bet slip for a smashing

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PLANNING NOTICES. Carlow County Council We Royal Oak Distillery LTD wish to apply to the above authority for Permission for the construction of a new fire water retention system to include drainage system and new retention basin of 2750m3 capacity consisting of dry basin underlain by a concrete tank, along with permission for a new diesel tank bund and new diesel line to boiler house. Permission is also applied for (i) Change of use of part of Cask Warehouse 2 from cask storage to distillery use for whiskey blending and filtration plant as well as bottling plant and change of use of remainder to general storage and warehousing, (ii) change of floor level of Warehouse 1 from 46.00m to 46.3m and & Warehouse 2 from 45.6m to 46.0m and (iii) Reduction in overall height of Warehouse 1 & Warehouse 2.

Permission to also include all associated hard and soft landscaping and all associated site development works at Royal Oak Distillery, Holloden House Demesne, Clorusk Lower, Royal Oak, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow (Protected Structure ref CW 46). The development of the Holloden House Demesne site to include a whiskey distillery, visitor centre and 2 no. warehouses has previously been approved as part of permission ref no 14/33. The proposed development has been subject to Appropriate Assessment and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and may be viewed with the planning files.

The planning application and NIS may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Department, Carlow County Council, County Hall, Athy Road, Carlow, during its public opening hours and a submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the Planning Authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee (€20.00) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the Authority of the planning application. The Planning Authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions, or may refuse to grant permission.

Carlow County Council I, Philip Kelly, am applying to Carlow County Council for Outline Permission to erect of a fully serviced dwellinghouse and domestic garage and all associated site development works at Clonegall, Co. Carlow.

Signed Philip Kelly The planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority, Civic Offices, Athy Road, Carlow, during its public opening hours.

A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee, €20, within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application, and such submissions or observations will be considered by the Planning Authority in making a decision on the application.

The planning Authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions, or may refuse to grant permission.

Carlow County Council I, Michael Kelly, am applying to Carlow County Council for Outline Permission to erect of a fully serviced dwellinghouse and domestic garage and all associated site development works at Clonegall, Co. Carlow.

Signed Michael Kelly The planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority, Civic Offices, Athy Road, Carlow, during its public opening hours.

A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee, €20, within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application, and such submissions or observations will be considered by the Planning Authority in making a decision on the application.

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Episode 1. Part one of two. Businesswoman Ellie is struggling to cope with her new life following the arrival of twins. As she juggles caring for the babies, working from home and dealing with a teenage son, her marriage to Joe suffers. A chance meeting with seemingly generous widow Fiona helps lighten her load - but the friendship soon takes a sinister turn. Psychological thriller, starring Julie Graham, Hermione Norris and Neil Pearson.

Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (T-800) return in their iconic roles in Terminator: Dark Fate. The machines send a Terminator, the Rev-9, back in time to kill a young woman, Dani Ramos, whose fate is connected to Sarah Connor and her son John’s legacies; thusly making her a target.

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Snow Bunting at Kilcoole a visitor from Greenland (Photo Justin Ivory) Autumn is the season that every birder and twitcher loves best. Why? It is the time of year that rare and scarce birds are most likely to turn up in Ireland.

Again – why? Well given that this is the reverse of the spring migration, the numbers of birds on the move have been swelled by the offspring that have been born during the summer and have successfully fledged and survived. So why do they end up here in Ireland?

Young birds making their first migration can wander off course either due to inexperience or just some youthful exploring.

Birds form North America making their migration southwards can get blown off course by bad weather systems which if blowing in a westerly direction, is easier for a bird to fly with rather than against until it makes landfall again – Western Europe.

Ireland at the westernmost edge of Europe often receives its fair share of these yankee visitors.

Whether these vagrants from America make it here can depend on several factors such as body size and shape, speed of the weather system and the fat reserves an individual bird has.

If these birds successfully make landfall in Ireland, they will rest and feed up for a while before heading back on their migration.

But what about birds from Eastern Europe and Siberia that should be migrating south-east towards China?

Yes, weather or inexperience can push them off course towards the west, but these birds are flying over land.

They could simply rest up somewhere for the weather conditions to improve before heading back on their migration south-east again.

Studies would indicate that these visitors from Siberia most likely have a defective internal compass which compels them to perform reverse-migration – instead of flying south-east they fly north-west!

The last few weeks has thrown up lots of rare and wonderful birds around the country which I will give a round-up of next week.

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a taste of christmas Dolmen Hotel, Carlow November 7th 8-10pm Ballon Community & Sports Hall and Ballon National School Parents’ Association present ‘A Taste of Christmas’ with celebrity chef Edward Hayden. Hayden is a well-known chef and food writer/blogger and is very familiar to radio and television audiences from his weekly cookery slots on TV3’s Ireland AM and regular appearances on KCLR 96FM. Tickets are €20 including cheese and wine reception. MC on the night is renowned blogger, food writer, broadcaste and children’s writer, Ms Fiona Dillon. Tickets available from any committee member 087 3463669.

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CapricornConsider transitions, past and future. Nurture old friends and connections.

Have patience and humor with communication snafus.

Eggsistentialism Visual Carlowboxoffice@visualcarlow.ie Saturday 16th November 8pm Tickets: €16/€14

Carlow writers coop Visual Carlowboxoffice@visualcarlow.ie Tuesday 12th November 8pm Tickets: €10

David O’Doherty: ULTRASOUND Visual Carlowboxoffice@visualcarlow.ie Friday 15th November 8pm Tickets: €20/18

Multi award-winning show is a funny, tender and moving exploration of reproduction in 21st-Century Ireland. Looking down the barrel of her final fertile years, one modern Irish woman goes on a comical quest to uncover the ifs, hows and crucially the whys of reproducing her genes. Mixing animation with stand-up, monologue and hilarious recorded interjections from her mother, a light-hearted but unflinching look at one of life’s most compelling dilemmas: should making a life for oneself involve making another?

The Carlow Writers Coop have given public readings of poetry and prose for many years.

It is one of the highlights of the group’s annual outings, bringing exciting prose and poetry to the greater community. It also gives the group a chance to present the work they have created together and to celebrate their achievements in sharing a space where writers can come together to critique and workshop new work. We also celebrate the achievement made in publishing work in various literary journals and in personal collections.

The hairy Enya is delighted to return to Visual Carlow with a brand new show made up of talking and songs played on the plastic keyboard he got for his Confirmation.

Once again, he will try to fix everything that is wrong in the world. SPOILER ALERT: once again he will fail. Comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright. His stand-up has won many international awards including the if.comedy award in 2008 and Best International Comedian at the 2014 Sydney Comedy Festival.

AquariusTeam misunderstandings could cause delays.

Review professional data closely. Guard against communication breakdowns.

PiscesMake educational plans and itineraries for later exploration. Reduce travel and shipping over three weeks. Communicate thoughtfully. Keep confidences.

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carlowpeople November 5, 2019

HomeSecurity

One-in-seven homes burgled in last 10 years one in seven homes or busineses have experienced a break in Ireland in the last ten years.

That’s almost a quarter of a million reported burglaries!

According to PhoneWatch Managing Director, Eoin Dunne “While we’re seeing a welcome reduction in burglaries in recent years, the reality is it remains all too common in Ireland. By examining the figures over an extended period we can see the true scale and impact of burglary in Ireland.”

So what can you do to protect your property? Quite a few things actually.

A home security alarm is a great deterrent, its an investment into the security of your home and can mean a saving to you on your home insurance.

Monitored alarms are even better as you will be notified when they are triggered.

Other tips according to AIG Home Secruity are ...

It is important to be vigilant if going on holidays, especially if your home is unoccupied. Get a

neighbour or friend to regularly check on your property, switching lights on and off.

Ensure that all doors and windows have strong locks. This is

especially important for patio doors, which are easy for burglars to access. The more time it takes to access your home, the less attractive it is to a burglar.

Keep your house as lit up as possible at night. Install lights near all outside entrances.

If possible leave a car parked in the driveway, maybe ask a neighbour to park there while you are away.

If you are out and about in the evening, leave a light or two on to make it look like someone is home. It’s also a good idea to leave a radio on.

When you buy new appliances such as a flat screen TV, dispose of the packaging carefully.

Don’t leave the box outside your house. You may as well put up a “rob me” sign.

Don’t leave any valuables such as cash or jewellery lying around or hidden in obvious places.

Make sure they are securely stored. Always take photos of valuable jewellery for insurance purposes. Ensure you have adequate insurance cover for valuables.

Keep hedges and shrubbery well clipped as they can act as a hiding place for thieves.

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carlowpeople November 5, 2019