Relief road needed to ease traffic at Castletownbere port

Major plans to ease traffic congestion at the country’s biggest whitefish port are likely to take years to finalise, unless a relief road can be built.

Consultants have started preliminary work on traffic-management plans for Castletownbere, which, it is hoped, will benefit not just the seafood industry, but locals and tourists.

More than 60 local submissions have been made, a meeting of the West Cork municipal district council, in Bantry, was told.