Tommy Barker says this is a one-off Macroom home and homestead that’ll be hard to bypass. Be smart, check out the smart home.

Contractors have fenced off almost half the entire route of a long-awaited €160m bypass of one of Cork’s worst bottlenecks.

The agriculture minister, who has an office on one of the country’s worst bottlenecks, has met with road building chiefs amid fears work on the long-awaited €160m N22 bypass could be delayed by up to five years.

At the current rate of allocations, it will take at least three years before enough money is made available to secure land needed to construct a badly needed bypass in mid-Cork.

Plans for a multimillion euro 40km bypass of one of the worst bottlenecks on the main Cork to Kerry road have taken a major step forward.

A pensioner drove a car down a landbank and into a reservoir yesterday, in a continuing dispute with the ESB.

ESB faces a bill of up to €1.5m to dispose of asbestos illegally dumped on its land in Co Cork.

An illegal dump containing asbestos has been discovered on the banks of one of Cork’s major sources of drinking water.

A LOCAL authority is poised to shut down and clean up an unauthorised end-of-life vehicle compound located next to a reservoir which supplies drinking water to 95,000 people, a court heard yesterday.

KERRY county manager Tom Curran has promised to maintain pressure on the National Roads Authority (NRA) and Cork County Council to ensure work on the long-awaited Macroom bypass road goes ahead.

IT’S a tidy little cottage, but there’s plenty of room for extending as this Coolcower, Macroom property sits on a site of one-third of an acre.

THE long-awaited bypass of a notorious bottleneck in Co Cork is back on track.

NO MORE bull — deliver the bypass.

A GROUP has vowed to increase pressure on the Government to deliver the delayed bypass of a Cork town.