Cobh will be first Cork town to let people pay for parking by phone

New pay parking app will be rolled out in the next ten days, and the system will later be introduced in Youghal, Kinsale, Bandon, Macroom, Fermoy, and Mallow

Picture Denis Minihane.

Cobh is to become the first town in Co Cork to roll out a parking app which will allow people to pay for parking in the harbourside town via their phone.

Meanwhile, plans are being drawn up to deter a huge number of HGVs from dodging motorway tolls by passing through Watergrasshill where they present a major risk to pedestrians and school children.