Council spends €700k on high-tech pothole-filling machines

Cork County Council has invested over €700,000 in three new high-tech pothole-filling machines, which will work on maintaining some of the county’s 12,000kms of roads.

The new velocity patchers, as they are called, are far more effective in repairing potholes than the traditional method of a spade and bucket of tar — forced into the hole with a workman’s boot.

Motorists often complain that many potholes are repaired when they are still full of water. And when the first lorry trundles over them, the tar is washed out of the hole.