Monster bridge is halfway there

WHEN finished it will weigh an astonishing 29,000 tonnes and at 450 metres will be the longest bridge of its type ever built in Ireland.

Work is well underway on the crossing, left, of the Blackwater Valley as part of the €200 million construction of the Fermoy bypass, in north Cork.

Austrian company Straubag is nearly halfway through building the monster bridge which will be 8.1 metres above the river.