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A MOTORCYCLIST IS in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a car on on the Clane to Celbridge Road this morning.
The incident happened at around 7.13am at Longtown, Straffan, around three kilometres outside Clane.
A 33-year-old male motorcyclist and a car with a female driver in her late 20s collided.
The motorcyclist was seriously injured and was taken to Naas General Hospital. The female car driver, the only person in the car, was also taken to Naas hospital but her injuries are described as not life-threatening.
The road has been closed to facilitate a forensic examination and diversions are in place.
Gardai in Naas are appealing for witnesses or anyone who may have been on the road at the time of the collision to contact them in Naas on 045 884300, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.
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Tax payer to the rescue
McConalogue playing politics and pandering to his local support base to ensure his re-election.100 per cent redress is unjustified and unwarranted. Only in Ireland, the world continues to laugh.
@Raymond Barry: I take it your a FFG Me Feiner?! It’s the government’s fault regulation was weak and its the quarrys owners responsibility to compensate for the defective product they sold! Count yourself lucky you aren’t one of the families affected.
@Raymond Barry: It would be amazing if he gets in next time but he won’t care with TD and minister pension
And who will the tax payer get a 100% redress from……answers on a postcard to no one, at any time, ever!!!!
@Brian McDonnell: you should count yourself lucky you aren’t one of those homeowners. Whilst someone has to pay the price for this whether redress or criminally, the homeowners should definitely be helped, their homes are falling down, how is that fair on them. I do think who ever took shortcuts, probably the quary, then the owners need to be personally liable, they should not be allowed hide behind a limited company on something the scale of this
I’d like to see the governments definition of the word ‘soon’. Because it’s been coming ‘soon’ for a bloody long time at this stage
That should all get a bog basic 3 bed timber house not the mansions they have to keep tax payer bill down
@Gerrard: if your wash machine broke down you wouldn’t be happy to get a sub-standard replacement. 100% redress just like in Leinster with Pyrite.
@Peter McGlynn: Likewise, If you buy and insure a car and 5 years later it is written off, you still only get market value, not a new car. If the fault was with the manufacturer, you go to the manufacturer for compensation.
Only I Ireland This government are a farce
Most of these House are blots on the landscape. Build energy efficient homes that blend in with the landscape. There must be a cap on costs. And the tax payer should not be stuck with a bill for rent or internal fittings.
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