A new stretch of motorway in Co Cork is due to officially open to traffic today.

A 40-KM-LONG superhighway linking Tipperary with Laois —o n the main Cork-Dublin road — is set to open on December 8, more than six months ahead of schedule.

SOUTH Tipperary County Council will identify surplus land arising from the construction of the M8 motorway, and will auction it, according to the director of services with the council, Billy McEvoy.

The new Cashel to Mitchelstown road has been officially opened ahead of schedule today.

ONE hour will be taken off the journey between Dublin and Cork by 2010, according to the chairman of the National Roads Authority (NRA).

THERE’S a sense of both balance and proportion about this big Ballyviniter house and the proportions are large.