“Cork’s northside needs a third-level campus and a northern ring road — otherwise Cork runs the risk of becoming irreversibly lopsided in terms of development and infrastructure. That is according to Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North Central, Billy Kelleher, who said that the two factors were absolutely key to an area crying out for development economically and socially …” (more)
[Evening Echo, 3 October]
This is disgraceful parish pump politics. There is no appetite for further investment in Cork, as it already dramatically over-invested relative to other regions in Ireland- because of its expertise at the parish pump. And this town councilor wants to be a national level politician.