Traffic pandemonium reigned in Cootehill, last Saturday, when more than 400 farmers descended on the Cavan town for the first subsidised tyre recycling day at the local mart.

Tailbacks of up to 2.5km were causing gardaí serious consternation with mutterings of turning farmers with their trailer loads of tyres back.

However, divine intervention appeared in the form of the local parish priest who offered the church car park for farmers to pull in off the road.

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Unfortunately, it might take more than divine intervention to get Minister Naughten to roll-out a nationwide tyre collection scheme.

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