Foynes-Limerick road scheme offers a ray of hope for tourist haven Adare

Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe tells how the proposed Foynes-Limerick road scheme may, after years of frustration, offer relief of a bypass for the town Adare.

Back in the days of horse-drawn carriages, 19th century Limerick poet Gerald Griffin extolled Adare as a “soft retreat” where visitors were enchanted and embraced in it “verdant bosom”.

Today, while it is still a major tourism destination, motorists face the heritage village with a sense of foreboding and resignation in its unwanted status of an increasing national traffic bottleneck.