Taoiseach to open 8km Macroom bypass in Co Cork

The bypass is part of a €280m project which will see a new dual carriageway built from the Cork and Kerry border, extending for 22km to the east of Macroom.

Eileen O'Flynn has run The Auld Triangle bar and restaurant on the outskirts of Macroom for more than 20 years. Around 75km in Fermoy, the town is benefitting from the opening of the M8 motorway. Fermoy was bypassed for traffic and heavy goods vehicles on the Cork and Dublin route from October 2006. "You can see the HGVs, they are all taken out of the town. That has led to a much better shopping environment; more businesses have opened up; a lot of investment in retail; happier customers and more people coming to Fermoy and enjoying Fermoy."

That particular road was one of the most dangerous stretches of national primary routes in the country, accounting for many fatal accidents. He points out that more than 12,000 cars and almost 1,000 heavy goods vehicles pass through Macroom daily, and the vast majority of these will use the by-pass when it opens.

But what about the tourists in Macroom?

Rip to the lady who was knocked down today in macroom ..

A simple google would tell you that the benefits to Fermoy were short-lived. Might have benefitted a store on the edge of town that relies on car traffic but not the town itself.

How it started = 1967 How its going = 2022! It has finally arrived........MacroomBypass

Nice new place for the speed vans to make some money

Motorway from Cork to Limerick now needed too please

Has the clown nothing better to be doing ?

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