'Not fit for purpose': Cork’s N25 slammed as unsafe with 5,000 homes now at risk

Officials warn lives, traffic, and housing plans are at risk as East Cork’s critical N25 road remains dangerously underfunded

It will likely be next year when the council finds out if any money will be forthcoming from the under the National Development Plan to upgrade the N25. File picture: Denis Minihane

The head of Cork County Council’s roads directorate has said it’s one of his “greatest disappointments” that the government has repeatedly refused to provide proper finance to upgrade the "unsafe" N25 between Carrigtwohill and Midleton. 

The situation has become so bad that the substandard state of the road could potentially stall the proposed creation of 5,000 new homes in the area. Mayor of County Cork Mary Linehan-Foley has vowed to use her office to seek an urgent meeting on the matter with minister for transport Darragh O’Brien.