Fears have been expressed that a northern bypass of Mallow will be put on the long finger, as was the mothballed motorway link between Cork and Limerick.

Severe traffic delays, already a feature of Mallow, Co Cork, look set to get worse following a decision by the NRA not to provide funding for urgent works to the town’s main roundabout.

Councillors will get a chance midweek to press Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe about the importance of building a bypass to relieve congestion in a grid-locked Cork town.

An historic home on Cork’s northside is in line to become a medical clinic after a recent grant of planning permission.

A section of the M8 motorway will be closed next month to enhance drainage works amid concern that climate change could make the main Cork-Dublin road unsafe.

A 65-year-old woman from Mallow has been killed in a two-vehicle collision near Castletownroche in North Cork.

CORK County Council has said it had no choice but to suspend resurfacing works on one of the county’s main roads because of freezing conditions.

DAMAGE from floods and ice to roads in Cork county has been estimated at more than €20 million.

THE National Roads Authority is refusing to provide money for the upgrade of a dangerous road in Co Cork which has claimed the lives of 10 people in recent years.

The Dublin-Cork N8 route was further improved today with the opening of a 4km bypass around Mitchelstown taking 20,000 vehicles a day out of the town.

TRAFFIC chaos and ESB power cuts chart the progress of the country’s biggest road haulage operation.