The East-West Link road to connect Louth to Sligo via Cavan and Monaghan, is not on the priority list of the Transport Minister. That's according to a local Cavan councillor who used time allotted to her during a recent meeting with Eamon Ryan to press him on the issue. The East West Link has been on the local agenda for two decades but because it has never made it onto the state's National Development Plan it hasn't featured on the priority list of successive transport ministers. Aontú's Sarah O'Reilly described how she put her "head in her hands" in "disappointment" after she asked the Minister about the prospect of developing the link road.
If it were to go ahead the roads from Cootehill to Cavan, Cootehill to Shercock and Shercock to Carrickmacross would be upgraded to take the HGVs serving industry in those area. Sarah O'Reilly also pointed out to the Minister that at the height of the summer 122 lorry loads of milk come through Bailieborough.
Cllr O'Reilly told Northern Sound she is "embarrassed" by the state of Cavan roads and pointed out the county had a 50 per cent NCT fail rate - the highest in the country. "The state of the roads has to be something to do with it," she said.
