Mallow’s future ‘reliant’ on bypass

Cork County Council and businesses in Mallow are to fund a consultants’ report aimed at showing the Government the economic necessity of creating a northern bypass of the town.

Tom Stritch, the council’s director of roads, said it would take about six weeks to compile the report, at which stage it will be handed to the Department of Transport, National Roads Authority (NRA), and the Department of Public Expenditure.

Mr Stritch said it was vitally important that a northern relief road be built so that Mallow could develop into the future.