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Macroom: Choked by traffic is the first in a new digital series from The Southern Star. The Big Story, which will be exclusive to The Southern Star’s digital platforms, will bring readers closer to West Cork’s most important topics.Episode one is written and produced by So
Residents who have spent decades dealing with heavy traffic on their main street say the town ‘will rise once the bypass is built’, writes Neil Michael
Longest concrete beams in Ireland and Britain placed over Cork river The longest precast concrete bridge beams in both Ireland and Britain have been put in place over the River Laney in Macroom as part of the Baile Mhúirne to Macroom road development project. Picture credit: RTÉ. Amy Nolan The longest precast concrete bridge beams in both Ireland and Britain have been put in place over the River Laney in Macroom as part of the Baile Mhúirne to Macroom road development project. Funding for the project, which has a budget of €280m, was approved by the Government in October 2019, with the d...
Southern Editor The longest precast concrete bridge beams in Ireland and Britain have been placed over a river at Macroom in County Cork, as part of a €280m project to bypass the town. Each of the seven beams is 50 metres in length and weighs more than 150 tonnes. It took four nights, garda escorts and some of the best drivers in the country to transport the seven bridge beams from Banagher in County Offaly to Macroom in Cork. En route, at the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork, the drivers had just 20 centimetres or eight inches head space from the ceiling of the tunnel.