Michael Moynihan: A traffic calming plan for Ballinlough would be such a cool move

Cork’s Ballinlough community is demanding action on school-run gridlock and dangerous roads — calling for real solutions, not excuses

There are four schools in the Ballinlough area. This constellation of schools makes for chaos every morning: traffic jams and hold-ups, minor arguments and major confrontations, accidents, tips, and scrapes, mirrors and bumpers damaged.

A couple of weeks ago we featured one of the coolest neighbourhoods in Cork in these pages.

St Luke’s, with its views over the city, its coffee places, its bookshop, that long haul up Summerhill.