Cork and Kerry in dispute over bypass

A row is developing between Cork and Kerry over the Macroom bypass.

Kerry councillors and senior officials stole a march on their Cork counterparts last week: they met with Transport Infrastructure Ireland officials in Dublin and claimed to have secured agreement on the key bypass. But they didn’t tell Cork about the meeting, despite what was to be a joint approach, it has been claimed.

The mayor of Kerry, Michael O’Shea, said that Kerry was “leading the way” in securing the Macroom N22 bypass, and they felt let down that Cork’s mayor had not joined with them.