€21m pier extension work in Castletownbere to start next year

Work on a €21m extension to double pier space at a booming Irish fishing port should start next year, the Agriculture and Fisheries Minister said yesterday.

Sarah David fishing boat from Skibbereen. Picture: Gerard McCarthy

Michael Creed told fishermen in West Cork the appropriate consents and tendering for the works to facilitate the project in Castletownbere will start early in 2017.

Subject to the consents being in place, he said it is hoped that work will start in July 2017, with a targeted completion date of mid-2019.