The Mayor of Clare is echoing calls for landowners to cut their hedgerows to ensure there are no serious road safety hazards.
The Road Safety Autority and the County and City Management Association made an appeal this week to land-owners to cut their hedgerows before the March 1st deadline.
It is an offence under the Wildlife Act to cut, burn or otherwise destroy any vegetation growing on any land not then cultivated or growing in any hedge or ditch, between March and September.
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Bodyke Fine Gael Councillor Joe Cooney says landowners can’t leave this task to the last minute.
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