Ballaghaderreen traders are continuing to protest today despite efforts to resolve the row over the public realm enhancement plan. The demonstration has been held on weekday mornings for the past four weeks. They're angry at the €4.5 million plan, which would see 47 car-parking spaces removed from the town. Roscommon County Council yesterday offered to keep eight spaces around The Square - but Aodhan Egan, from JJ Egan Jewellers, is dismissing that:
Michael Mulligan runs a hardware in the town - he says there's only one way to resolve the row: