End in sight for Buttevant roadworks

Repair work is nearly complete on the “worst” street surface in Ireland, in Buttevant town. And motorists using the main Cork-Limerick road will soon not have the frustration of waiting in long queues at roadworks.

A senior county council engineer spoke yesterday of “light at the end of the tunnel” for Buttevant, in Co Cork. Numerous cars have been damaged in recent years by its undulating street surface.

Tom Stritch, the council’s director of roads, told a northern division meeting that the major roadworks, on the N20, south of Mallow, were ahead of schedule.