'Scandalous carry on' - Offaly residents in fear as glass bottles rain down on busy road

Residents in Edenderry have expressed anger and fear of injury over incidents of bottles being thrown onto a busy road in the town.

There are fears car tyres will be burst or someone walking will be injured with locals voicing frustration about being unable to reach the local Garda station.

One concerned resident took to the Edenderry Residents Facebook page to warn others about the behaviour. They wrote: "Road from Fairgreen to Granary covered in broken glass. People in Wallers throwing them out smashing them all across the road. Please be careful."

William Wallers is a disused grain store and yard which has attracted some anti-social behaviour but is planned for works, including housing and a new library and arts centre in the coming years.

Other locals reacted to the behaviour with one woman saying she had phoned the Garda stations in Edenderry and Tullamore eight times but got no answer.

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The resident said: "I rang both Edenderry and Tullamore eight times and got no answer. The glass bottles just missed my car. I tried ringing the guards before posting on here warning others to avoid that area. Tyres will be destroyed going that road."

A second said: "That’s disgraceful there’s little kids live up there," while a third described it as "scandalous carry on."

Another concerned resident said it would be "bad if someone was walking with a buggy and a bottle hits a baby."

One local suggested they were also throwing slates off the old grains store roof onto the road and that a resident nearby had to clean it up off the road recently. 

Gardaí have not yet responded to the Offaly Express after a request for comment.