Cork County Council is to seek an urgent meeting with the Taoiseach and his Minister for Public Expenditure in the hope of getting extra funding to improve its crumbling network of rural roads. Councillors said the state of rural roads was the main issue on the doorsteps during their local election canvasses. Council chief executive Tim Lucey said his roads engineers estimated €560m was needed to bring the county's roads up to a proper standard. “Our rural roads have been on the back foot since the recession. Cllr Mary Linehan-Foley said there had been increasing claims by motorists against the county council in recent years because more vehicles were getting damaged by potholes.

Source: Irish Examiner June 10, 2019 13:30 UTC