Hazardous journey to visit friend in Navan

I am delighted to see road resurfacing being carried out at what used to be the Athboy Road - past Our Lady's Hospital in Navan - I'm not sure what it's called now since the Moat Road opened. I have, for many months, being visiting a friend in the magnificent new HSE facility at Beaufort House beside the hospital, either by foot or by car. And what a journey it has been. Driving up that particular stretch of road has been treacherous, and one evening last week, I almost lost the car in a hole. The same thing seems to have happened a man the following morning, who was out with his camera photographing the said crater, and nursing an injured car. It's a pity that the council only sees fit to resurface roads when there may be a danger of somebody claiming damages off them. Now, while there's a lovely new road, the footpath, which was already in a sunken condition, will be even lower than the road and prone to more flooding than ever. A section of footpath from St Patrick's Classical School entrance to Moathill Manor is practically non-existent, and is often used as a parking place for a articulated truck, for some reason. It's no use trying to walk on the other side of the road - there isn't even a path that side! And what about the clever engineers who designed built the drains outside Moathill Manor. Here, in order to get to the drains, the water has to flow uphill after a rainfall. I have not seen this happen yet, with the result that one has to make one way through a flood as one passes the gateway. But what would I know? However, the water is handy for washing the dog poo off the shoes - that path, as many others in town are, seems to attract doggys to drop on. If their owners had proper control on them, and some responsibility for their animals, then there wouldn't be dog poo all over the footpath. Yours, Mary Rose Plunkett, Athlumney, Navan.