Warning as county’s budget for maintaining roads is halved

The Government allocation for maintaining roads in Ireland’s largest county has fallen by more than half in four years, from €106m in 2009 to €48m this year.

It has been warned the massive cut will further impact the ever-deteriorating standard of roads in Co Cork.

County manager Martin Riordan said the cutbacks are a false economy, as it will cost considerably more in the long run to repair some of the county’s 11,000km of roads.