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James Swords — the public record

James Swords is named here by public office and by specific recorded actions, not as a personal profile or finding. He is Tipperary County Council's District Engineer for the Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel Municipal District.

What the public record shows

At the Cahir–Cashel Municipal District meeting of 26 May 2025, the signed minutes record Swords telling the meeting there are 477 bridges in the District, that applications for funding had been made for 14 of them, and that funding was secured for three. Read the 26 May 2025 minutes, printed pp. 1 and 6, item 3.4.

Separately, a Council engineering inspection of Killardry Bridge is dated 21 January 2025. Bronagh English died at that bridge on 24 April 2025 — 93 calendar days later. The public record does not establish that Swords personally received that inspection, what risk assessment followed, or what interim measures were considered. Read the full 93-day-gap record · Browse the public-road decisions record.

Factual record. No finding of personal knowledge, motive, responsibility or causation is made here.