“Absolutely lethal” is how Cllr John Heneghan has described the situation caused by milk trucks using The Vee. He was speaking at the meeting of the Joint Policing Committee in Lismore on Monday night. He believes the milk trucks are using the route to make cost savings in getting to the dairy plant at Ballyragget in Kilkenny.

He said it created an extremely dangerous situation for motorists meeting the trucks on the route’s two bad bends as the trucks have to use the full width of the road to negotiate those turns. Even if they could put up signage to warn motorists it’d be a help, he said.

Cllr Davy Whelan said the weight of the milk trucks going to the creamery is the same as the timber lorries which also use the route. There isn’t a problem with their return journeys as they are empty, he said.

Another member said the same problem arises with coaches using The Vee but Cllr Heneghan said they’d been instructed not to use the route as the coaches were getting wrecked.

Town Manager Paul Daly pointed out that it is a regional road. “We’ll see if we can do something” he said, and promised to get an engineer’s report on the situation.