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• Kildare company Manguard Plus back in the running for more major awards in 2024
  One of Co. Kildare’s biggest business success stories, Manguard Plus, is once again a major finalist in this year’s OSPA’s (Outstanding Security Performance Awards). The company, Ireland’s largest privately owned Irish security company, has reached the finalists in multiple categories, in what is th
• Why gardaí are taking action against 'resting' truck drivers
  The gardaí are taking action against truck drivers who are using verges on the Clane side of the Sallins bypass as a truck stop. Cllr Carmel Kelly told a Naas Municipal District meeting that drivers are using both sides of the road to stop and rest and this is causing problems for pedestrians and mo
• KILDARE: Call for town sports stadium gets a mixed response
  There was a mixed reaction to a proposal that planning start to provide a “town stadium and sports park” for Naas. It came from Cllr Seamie Moore, who said it should have “multiple sports pitches, a gymnasium and indoor facilities for all netball games and large meetings. He said Naas area councillo
• Kilcullen's Fergus Aspell central to club's success in late '90s
  Kilcullen GAA had perhaps their finest hours in the late 1990s with consecutive Junior and Intermediate Championship wins, not to mention lifting the inaugural Leinster Junior Football Championship in between. However, that boom period would be preceded by the loss of four Junior finals in six years
• School going children have to stand in the mud while waiting for the bus
  A footpath is to be provided for children who have to stand in the mud while waiting to go to school in Naas. Cllr Anne Breen initially asked for a bus shelter to be built at Monread Park for children waiting to be taken to three primary schools at the Piper’s Hill campus, Kilcullen Road. […]