Cork County Council engineers have urged Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to provide improved on-road and off-road warning signs at a notoriously dangerous crossroads, in advance of major works to make it safer.

A North Cork town faces gridlock for several years to come as there are no plans to provide a bypass in advance of the construction of a Cork-Limerick motorway.

The Munster economy could suffer if the proposed new Cork-Ringaskiddy road isn’t completed by 2023.

It is hoped that revised plans for a €180m road between Cork and Ringaskiddy will ease the fears of some residents’ associations who expressed major concerns with the initial blueprint when it was launched in October.

KERRY slugs and Cork landowners could together slow the progress of a major new road project in the north of the county to a snail’s pace.