Dublin-Cork trip to drop to two hours and 15 minutes

JOURNEY times between Dublin and Cork are set to drop to two-and-a-quarter hours when a number of major projects announced yesterday are completed.

The National Roads Authority is promising dramatic improvements in the time taken to travel between the country’s two main cities when the route will comprise motorways and dual carriageways by 2010.

The average journey time on the M7/N8 between Dublin and Cork is around three-and-a-half hours.