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Young pupils from Adair NS with parents, parents’ council and board of management members, teachers and local residents pictured this week as they continued their campaign to have speed ramps installed at the school. Photo: Ellen Lynch

Adair NS parents, members of the parents' association and board of management are to continue their campaign to have ramps installed outside the small school to slow passing traffic.

At a recent meeting of the traffic management sub-committee of Fermoy Town Council which Adair NS parents association and board of management members attended in deputation, the local authority decided to monitor the traffic situation on the street for two months and present a report on its findings to the committee's January meeting.

There is warning sign for motorists at the bottom of the street advising of the school. Yellow rumble strips and further on-road signs telling motorists to slow were also recently installed at either side of the school. Parents though are adamant that the only real way to slow traffic is to install ramps. They say all other schools in Fermoy have them and they don't see why theirs should be excluded.

Local councillors Noel McCarthy and Tadhg O'Donovan agree and have been pressing the town council to install the ramps.

"We weren't happy with the response we got at the recent traffic management meeting. I still feel ramps should be installed even on a temporary basis to test their effectiveness," Cllr McCarthy said.

Cllr O'Donovan explained last week that temporary ramps installed in Devlin Street in the town are being removed shortly and permanent ramps installed. He said the temporary ones from there could be put at Adair NS on a short term basis to try them out in a move that wouldn't cost the council anything. Cllr O'Donovan said it was their intention to continue the campaign until the ramps are put in.

Mayor Olive Corcoran is still in favour of them waiting until after the report from the traffic survey is presented to them in January, to see what that shows. Otherwise, she said, she is in favour of the speed limit there being reduced to 20 mph and being enforced vigorously by Gardai.

"I can't see why the council can't put up 20mph signs there. Let the Gardai and the council discuss this, get it done and then, if anyone breaks the reduced speed limit let them be summonsed. If that's not possible, then put in ramps," she said.

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