Overgrown hedgerows ‘causing traffic hazards’ in Kerry

Uncut roadside hedges are causing traffic hazards and isolating some elderly people in rural areas, it has been claimed.

Landowners are obliged to cut back hedges and ditches on their properties, under the 1993 Roads Act, but a minority are failing to do so, according to Kerry Fine Gael councillor Patrick Connor-Scarteen.

He said older people were becoming prisoners in their own homes because of overgrown hedges on approach roads and community transport buses could no longer travel on such roads.