Lack of Cork-Limerick motorway ‘biggest gap in Irish infrastructure’

The lack of a motorway between Cork and Limerick is the “single biggest gap in Irish infrastructure” and planning needs to be kick- started urgently, the boss of the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) has said.

Now is the time, director general Tom Parlon said, to explore options for major infrastructure with the European Investment Bank.

Speaking in Cork, Mr Parlon said making the long-awaited M20 between the two cities a reality was a “no-brainer” that would ignite the regional economy.