Walking trails plan for former railways

A working group is to be set up to examine the feasibility of turning miles of former railways in West Cork into walking trails.

The group is likely to be led by Cork County Council’s assistant county manager James Fogarty, who has described himself as “one of the original railway children”.

Mr Fogarty, who has just been appointed the most senior council official in West Cork, said he had fond memories of the old railways as his father was station master in Ballinascarthy.