Transport minister to be urged over Mallow ring roads

Senior county council officials in Cork are to meet with Leo Varadkar, the transport minister, to impress on him the importance of building ring roads around Mallow to ease traffic gridlock.

The proposed roads were to be built as part of a now-mothballed multimillion-euro M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick.

Tom Barry, a Mallow-based TD, said he will outline the importance of building the ring roads when he meets Mr Varadkar this week.