Councillors Martin Ferris, Cathal Foley and Anthony Curtin and a group of angry campaigners from Kerry came to Leinster House on Tuesday, 7 March, to protest at ``the appalling and dangerous conditions of the roads in County Kerry, the result of decades of mismanagement, underfunding and downright neglect, especially by ministers of this government, and previous governments who come from the Kingdom. Free article

A public debate, titled Nationalist Equality, Can It Be Delivered? was organised by Mourne Residents for Equality at Glassdrummond AOH Hall south of Newcastle, County Down on Saturday, 4 March. Free article

After 100 years, meetings of Clonakilty UDC will at last be accessible to the public, after Sinn Féin Councillor Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin successfully steered a motion to this effect through a recent meeting of the local authority. He was disappointed, however, that another motion calling on the council to display minutes and agendas of council meetings on the Town Hall notice board was defeated. This was the third time he had failed to get this motion passed since getting elected to Clonakilty UDC in 1994. Both motions were seconded by Independent councillor Anthony McDermott. Free article