Row between county mayor and TD over Mallow bypass funding

A row has broken out between a county mayor and a Fine Gael TD over a funding issue for a proposed bypass.

Cork East TD Tom Barry reacted angrily to comments by the Mayor of County Cork, John Paul O’Shea, about funding for the Mallow northern relief road.

The mayor, an independent candidate in Cork North-West, said an announcement of an allocation of €100,000 to progress the bypass was “not worth tuppence”.