'Long overdue' €2m upgrade of Bandon road to take place this summer 

Cars are "wrecked" from driving on the stretch of road leading to Bandon from Cork city, councillors claimed. 

A truck on the N71 outside Bandon. File Picture: Andy Gibson

A major €2m upgrade of the road leading into Bandon from the Cork side is to be carried out by TII (Transport Infrastructure Ireland) has been warmly welcomed as “cars are being wrecked" driving over the current surface.

The project was unveiled at a meeting of the Bandon/Kinsale Municipal District Council by Eoin Murphy, a senior engineer with TII.