Cork council 'extremely disappointed' at not getting funds for county's crumbling roads

The council’s director of roads and transportation, said the underlying structures of some of the roads are gone as their 'cores haven’t been strengthened since donkeys and carts travelled on them 100 years ago'

Cork County Council has also been told it may only get some money for emergency safety works on the roads. File picture: Denis Minihane

A senior official has said Cork County Council is “extremely disappointed” it hasn’t received €32m from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) for urgent upgrades to crumbing national secondary roads in the region.

It has also been told it may only get some money for emergency safety works on the roads. The local authority had sought €12m to upgrade the N72 west of Ballymaquirke Cross, near Kanturk, to the Kerry ‘county bounds’ at Rathmore.