Letters to the Editor: No surprise that Farranfore to Killarney road is not top priority

A reader suggests a reason why ribbons will be cut on many another road in the south west long before the N22 is completed

Taoiseach Simon Harris opening the Listowel Bypass on Monday with Education Minister Norma Foley, Kerry County Council Cathaoirleach Breandán Fitzgerald, Kerry TD Brendan Griffin, and Senator Ned O'Sullivan. Picture: Valerie O'Sullivan

With the opening of a new road around Listowel following on from the major bypass of Macroom last year and the Adare bypass about to get under way in Limerick, Killarney-based politicians are up in arms that a bypass of their busy town seems further away than ever.

The Independent Healy-Raes are particularly incensed and “confused” at Taoiseach Simon Harris’s comments at the official opening of the €62m Listowel bypass on August 19 when no specific mention was made of the long-awaited N22 Farranfore to Killarney project, projected to cost at least €450m.