'Sinkhole was nearly 6ft deep': Little Island businesses call on Government to fund road upgrades

Several companies have threatened to withhold commercial rates and to carry out the work on crumbling roads themselves
'Sinkhole was nearly 6ft deep': Little Island businesses call on Government to fund road upgrades

Michael Mulcahy, chief executive of Little Island Business Association, holding a piece of a broken registration number plate which was on the road; Sarah Murphy, EZ Living Interiors, and Maxine Hyde, Ballymaloe Foods, Little Island, assess the deteriorating condition of the roads. Picture: Denis Minihane

The Government has been told to provide Cork County Council with the legal and financial means for urgent road upgrades in the industrial district of Little Island to allow businesses to expand.

Several companies in the regional employment zone have threatened to withhold commercial rates and to carry out the work on crumbling roads themselves.

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