The future of the multi-million euro Dunkettle interchange project in Cork is “in the hands of the Government as to how to proceed”, the chief executive of construction firm Sisk has said.

Talks are taking place about safety upgrades at a death-trap junction on the N20 Cork to Limerick road.

Limerick’s local authority says it hopes to have a design team for the new M20 motorway to Cork in place by September.

A quarter of Cork’s footprint has yet to be built and the next 20 years will bring the biggest change to city and county since independence.

Ministers insist they now believe the Cabinet’s national planning framework will help both rural and urban Ireland, despite failing to give any example of what last-minute changes have been made to ensure this will happen.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed that the Limerick/Cork motorway will pass along the route originally envisaged — putting an end to fears the project could be further delayed.

The proposed M20 motorway is certain to be included in the Government’s 10-year capital plan later this month, it can be revealed.

Limerick has been revealed as one of Ireland’s top performers in terms of new business growth.

The M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick will enhance the entire region economically and socially while bringing new life to towns like Charleville, Co Cork.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is committed to ensuring ‘that all roads no longer go to Dublin’, writes Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe.

The Cork to Limerick motorway will go ahead, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has pledged, saying that money is “no longer a barrier” to progressing the project.

The managing director of Twitter Ireland has said the online giant is committed to tackling so-called fake news — but has warned that legislative means to regulate online speech “is a slippery slope”.

Improving our infrastructure remains a huge challenge. Failing to re-evaluate the now discredited idea of decentralisation and jobs dispersion is adding to it, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

The focus has been on the development of the M20 motorway, between Cork and Limerick, of late.

Because of plans to increase investment in national infrastructure by €500m each year, between 2019 and 2021, the M20 motorway, between Cork and Limerick, is a step closer to happening, the two city’s business leaders said last night.

The proposed M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick could trigger up to 5,400 jobs for the region and prevent almost 120 crashes every year.

The Government today reveals its summer economic statement, looking to hike spending but balance the books, writes Daniel McConnell 

The long-mooted northern ring road for Cork’s northside is as important to the region as the proposed M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick, according to leading business figures in the city.

Executive staff of Cork County Council, backed by elected members, have warned the Government any attempt to re-route a proposed motorway link between Cork and Limerick through Tipperary would be a disaster for the economies of North Cork, Kerry, and West Limerick.

Significant investment is needed in public transport and infrastructure in Dublin and Cork city centres if they are to keep up with increasing development and passenger numbers, according to the cities’ chambers of commerce.

Despite all the advantages associated with allocating funding for the M20 motorway, as outlined in recent articles in this newspaper, this work has been postponed again. 

Severe traffic delays, already a feature of Mallow, Co Cork, look set to get worse following a decision by the NRA not to provide funding for urgent works to the town’s main roundabout.

The trade body representing Ireland’s freight transport operators has called on the Government to seek compensation from French counterparts for the losses members are suffering due to continuing disruption in Calais.

Security measures around the Channel Tunnel are to be stepped up after Britain and France agreed a package including extra private security guards, French police reinforcements, additional fences and more CCTV surveillance.

A VILLAGE intends to fight plans to build one of the country’s longest sections of elevated motorway just yards from its quiet main street.

I AM writing to object to the proposed M20 motorway.

WITH just under €1 billion allocated for buying up land for the Cork-Limerick motorway, what price for this land at Ballyviniter, Mallow?

ROUTE options for a €1 billion motorway linking Cork to Limerick will go on display again next week due to public demand.

A 48-year-old man has been arrested by officers from Operation Orb investigating a series of rapes, police said today.