‘€548million needed to bring rural Cork roads up to standard’

Some €500m is needed to bring rural roads in Co Cork up to a proper standard, according to a senior county council official.

Tom Stritch, the council’s director of roads, said that cutbacks in government funding, since 2009, and increased adverse weather had left many roads in the county in a poor condition.

He estimates that a one-off grant of €548m is needed just to bring them up to an acceptable condition.