Silence please! Kinnegad library idea back on the cards?

During the boom years, it looked like Kinnegad was going to get a library. It didn’t happen, but now it looks as if there could be some light on the horizon.

Deputy Robert Troy lodged a parliamentary question last week, asking the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly, the status of funding for a library for Kinnegad.

The response from Minister Kelly was that a draft Libraries Capital Investment Programme is being developed by his department for investment in library infrastructure over the period 2016-2021.

“The proposed library at Kinnegad has been identified by Westmeath County Council as a priority investment and, accordingly, will be considered in that context,” he assured the Fianna Fáil man.