Concerns raised over late-night modified car convoys in Leitrim town
Concerns have been raised over modified cars circling Carrick-on-Shannon at weekends into the early hours of the morning.
Concerns have been raised about people circling Carrick-on-Shannon in modified cars throughout the night at weekends, an issue that has been described as “an accident waiting to happen.”
A video shared online by local resident Gerry Faughnan shows vehicles repeatedly driving around a roundabout in the town just after the bridge, with significant noise from the cars recorded at around 1am.
Phil Faughnan, a member of the Carrick-on-Shannon Tidy Towns committee, discussed the issue on Shannonside radio with Eoghan Murphy on May 27, expressing concerns about both safety and noise pollution.
“It’s been going on for a number of years. It’s a big issue. Noise pollution, disturbing the peace and what I can’t understand is how they pass through the NCT,” she said on the radio.
She described how the drivers operate in “convoys,” explaining that they head over the bridge towards Cortober and out to Stewart’s garage, where they then gather in the SuperValu car park.
From there, she said, they rev their engines for around five minutes before driving back into town and repeating
The noise pollution, she said, has severely affected her sleep, with disturbances beginning between 10pm and 12am and continuing well into the early hours of the morning.
“Last Sunday morning it went on til 4:30 in the morning. It has been worse over the last while. I don’t get any sleep at the weekends,” explained Phil.
She also raised concerns about the potential danger this could pose, particularly given the number of visitors coming to Carrick-on-Shannon at weekends.
“I’d be very concerned for the amount of visitors that come to Carrick and would be walking over the bridge to Cortober at night. If one of them stumbled I couldn’t bear to think about what would happen,” she said.
“I dread to think that there’s nothing being done about it. My concern is that it’s an accident waiting to happen.”
A comment from another local on Gerry Faughnan’s Facebook post read, “This is Carrick-on-Shannon every weekend until 4:30am. In and out the Boyle road to Supervalu where they turn and keep revving the engines. Noise pollution and disturbing the whole neighbourhood.”