Alternative Cork-Limerick motorway route would save €250m, hearing told

TAXPAYERS could save €250 million building a much shorter motorway which would link Limerick and Cork, a Bord Pleanála oral hearing has been told.

At yesterday’s hearing claims were made that in the current economic climate, building the €800m Cork-Limerick motorway (M20) was a shocking waste of public money.

Brian Hyde, spokesman for the Cork Limerick Alliance Group (CLAG) – which represents a number of concerned landowners and householders along the proposed M20 corridor – said it would make more sense to build a shorter motorway from Limerick to Cahir, which would then link with the M8 and Cork.