It will be “challenging” to prevent major disruption for commuters during the €100m upgrade of the busiest road junction outside Dublin, admits Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).

Work will not commence on a Macroom bypass or new Cork-Ringaskiddy road until at least 2022, as priority is being given to upgrading the Dunkettle/Jack Lynch Tunnel interchange.

The community group opposed to the building of an incinerator in Cork Harbour has claimed the application is invalid, due to a string of issues, including errors over the company name of the applicant, Indaver Ireland.

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

The chief executive of Munster Rugby has criticised the Government for failing to fund the most urgently needed road connection in the country, and says the oversight will damage the regional economy.

An extra €205m to equip the gardaí with modern technology is part of a €875m justice capital plan promised by the outgoing Government.

The upcoming budget offers the Government the opportunity to deliver a range of reforms that encourage entrepreneurship and ease the burden on hard-pressed workers.

The Government will focus major road spending on projects which can support economic recovery, the transport minister has said.

Pressure is mounting on Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe to prioritise the multi-million upgrade of the vital N28 artery linking Cork and the city’s sprawling port operations in Ringaskiddy.

Objectors to the Port of Cork’s plans for a €100m expansion of its terminal in Ringaskiddy have expressed shock and anger at a revelation that the National Roads Authority does not know when it will upgrade roads to service the development.

A significant part of the Port of Cork’s €100m redevelopment plan for Ringaskiddy could go ahead without a major upgrading of either the Dunkettle interchange or the N28 national primary road.

Cork Chamber has called for a merger of the city and county councils by 2018, claiming the move could deliver significant rates reductions for struggling businesses.

The Port of Cork has unveiled computer-generated simulations of plans for a €100m upgrade of its facilities in Ringaskiddy.

Business leaders in Cork have launched a fresh bid to persuade the Government to sanction a multi-million upgrade of the N28 to improve access to Ireland’s pharma-chem hub.

MOST people who drive through Carrigaline, Co Cork, will be familiar with Heron’s Wood, the large, Astra Construction scheme at the entrance to the town proper.

EIGHT people have now died, four of them pedestrians, in a Christmas week of carnage on the country’s roads.

THE body that represents almost 1,000 businesses in Cork has called on the incoming Government to adopt its pro-business proposals and introduce sweeping reforms to secure jobs and competitiveness.

THE regeneration of Cork’s sprawling docklands remains a government priority, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation insisted yesterday.

THE Port of Cork is to submit a revised plan for a new €50 million container terminal in Ringaskiddy, although not on the same site which was previously refused by Bord Pleanála.

THE location of a proposed €220 million container terminal should be known by Port of Cork directors next October and the possibility of reapplying for permission to build it in Ringaskiddy has not been ruled out.

PORT of Cork officials believe the economic future of the Munster region could be damaged by An Bord Pleanála’s refusal to allow them develop a new €226 million container terminal.

HAVING a dad an architect paid dividends for the owner of No 1 Castlehill in Cork’s Carrigaline.

MIRACULOUSLY, no one was injured when barrels of concentrated sulphuric acid yesterday fell off the back of a lorry near the heart of Ireland’s chemical complex and just after the morning rush hour.

MIRACULOUSLY, no one was injured when barrels of concentrated sulphuric acid yesterday fell off the back of a lorry near the heart of Ireland’s chemical complex and just after the morning rush hour.

THE owner of a private golf course was criticised yesterday for playing hard ball by locking club members out.