There is no funding in place to upgrade the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange and Iarnród Éireann has no plans at present to build a station nearby — despite both projects being essential to ease traffic gridlock.

City officials are under fire after Jack Lynch tunnel repairs caused traffic chaos in Cork over the bank holiday weekend.

FEARS the Government was preparing to introduce a daily charge on 68,000 drivers using the Jack Lynch Tunnel have been allayed.

ONE of the country’s busiest tunnels and link roads, between the north and south of Cork city, is to close every night for up to six months for work to bring it into line with new EU fire regulations.