Calls to divert truck convoys from award-winning village

County councillors are demanding trucks carrying earth for flood-prevention embankments be diverted from a picturesque village which has won awards for its tidiness and floral displays at regional, national, and European level.

Concern was raised at yesterday’s meeting of Cork County Council’s northern division that upwards of 100 trucks a day passing through Coolagown would damage the village’s reputation and roads.

Earth is being removed from Cork Marts at Corrin, Fermoy, to the eastern side of the town to bolster its flood defences.