By Sean Moriarty

Finnegan’s Cross received €400,000 in funding this week under the 2023 investment programme for regional and local roads.

Finnegan’s Cross, near Kilcummin, has been the scene of several serious collisions in recent years including at least one fatal accident.

This year’s allocation is double the amount set aside under the same scheme last year but that money was unused as Kerry County Council remained in discussion with local landowners.

Local councillor Marie Moloney has been campaigning for years for safety upgrades to the junction.

Last month she brought a deputation of local residents to a meeting of the Killarney Municipal District.

The residents were told that if the junction was given funding this year the Council would press ahead with a public consultation and gave an undertaking that the works will start by this September.

“I am calling on Kerry County Council to honour assurances given at that meeting that the works will start in September,” Cllr Moloney told the Killarney Advertiser.

Finnegan’s Cross is one of 47 road projects and schemes in Kerry that will benefit from the €30,950,225 investment which will supplement local authorities’ own resources expenditure.

The funding was announced on Tuesday morning.