Anger as road authority puts relief road on hold

CONFIRMATION yesterday that the National Roads Authority has torpedoed two major schemes led to angry scenes at a Cork County Council meeting.

The authority, it emerged, has postponed partly-completed vital road works adjacent to the Amgen site in east Cork and has also refused to fund Mallow’s northern relief road.

County manager, Martin Riordan, said he was “very disappointed” to have received a letter from the authority stating it was putting work on hold on upgrading the N25 outside the proposed Amgen factory site in Carrigtwohill.