TD demands improvements to tackle 'unconscionable' amount of serious accidents on Cork's N25

The section of the N25 between the Rincrew roundabout and the Jack Lynch Tunnel has seen four fatal accidents, 16 serious injury crashes, and 42 minor injury collisions between 2022 and the end of September 2025.

Social Democrats TD Liam Quaide said that the only way to make the N25 safer, apart from significantly upgrading it, is to reinstate the old Youghal to Midleton railway line.

There has been “an unconscionable amount of serious traffic accidents” taking place on the main Cork to Waterford road, with at least 10 fatalities in the past four years.

The stark data reinforces the need for an upgrade of the N25, especially on its busiest section between the Jack Lynch Tunnel and Midleton, a Cork East TD has said, as senior county council management admitted it is currently "substandard and unsafe".