Cork needs extra €36m to repair roads severely damaged by winter storms

Cork County Council to get €3.7m for road repairs out of a €30m emergency funding package announced by Transport Minister Eamon Ryan

The county’s road network suffered severe and extensive damage last winter, and especially during last October’s Storm Babet, with extensive damage to its network of local and regionals roads and to bridge infrastructure, with repairs estimated at some €56m.

Cork still needs at least another €36m to repair the county’s storm-damaged roads despite a major funding announcement on Friday.

Transport Minister Eamon Ryan and Minister of State Jack Chambers announced a national €30m emergency funding package for local and regional roads to deal specifically with the impact of climate change, which they said had contributed to a deterioration in the surface quality of certain parts of the network over the winter months.