CARLOW Co Council is ‘optimistically hoping’ that An Bord Pleanála will approve its plans for improving a stretch of road on the N81, known as Leagh Bends, where a number of fatal crashes have occurred.

This work needs to be done "so that the people of Carlow do not have to wake up ever again to the dreadful reality of another death, another road death at Leagh Bends"