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Wednesday, 6th September, 2023. Vol. 16, Issue 36 • 63 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth Tel: 042 932 0888. | Email: editorial@dundalkleader.com; advertising@dundalkleader.com
Council cut causes concerns By Tamara O’Connell A LOCAL couple have expressed their anger over a lack of communication from the council after workers from the local authority cut ivy from their wall last week without any notice given. Mary Jane Maguire and her partner David Juhasz had purposely let the ivy grow up their wall outside their house in Laurel Brook Gardens to stop their autistic daughter throwing things out on to the road. According to Mary Jane the ivy had acted as a barrier be-
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tween their wall and the road and had stopped her daughter Mary Kate throwing things on the road which she had done regularly before the ivy had grown up the wall. “My thirteen-year old daughter is severely autistic and when she is out in the garden she has a habit of throwing things over the wall out on to the road. Myself and my partner David were concerned that she would hit a passer by with something and that is why we let the ivy grow up the wall. Continued on Page 2
Mary Jane Maguire and her partner David Juhasz.
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