€180m Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway would split communities, oral hearing told

Objectors to the proposed €180m Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway say it would split communities, cause increased physical and mental health problems, reduce life expectancy, and significantly devalue their properties.

Increased noise and noxious gas emissions created by additional traffic passing through residential areas and the lack of proposals for an alternative motorway route were also highlighted by objectors at the first day of a Bord Pleanála oral hearing at the Ambassador Hotel in Cork.

At the outset of the meeting yesterday, Bord Pleanála senior inspector Mary Kennelly said she accepted the hotel “was somewhat removed from the site of the proposed project”.