30km/h speed limit ‘will force out shoppers’

FEARS have been expressed that shoppers will be driven out of Cork after the local authority confirmed plans to introduce a 30km/h (18.64mph) speed limit before next Christmas.

City councils in Waterford and Limerick said they had no plans to follow the lead implemented by Dublin City Council yesterday.

Cork Business Association chief executive Donal Healy, said his 200 members “would have huge concern that shoppers could be driven out” of the city centre.