Macroom bypass approved: At long last

Once upon a time, a wise person wrote that it might be easier for a camel to get through the eye of an needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. Had that parabolist experienced high-summer traffic deadlock in Macroom, they might well have used a different analogy.

For many decades, the town has been a bottleneck and a resolution of the difficulty has been long-sought and long-promised. That resolution moved a step closer this week, when it was announced that the Cabinet had, after many years of prevarication, finally approved a €280m upgrade on the route.