Protests over cash disrupt M7 opening

CEMENT mixer vehicles yesterday caused disruption during a protest, over allegedly unpaid monies, as a new section of the M7motorway between Limerick and Dublin was opened yesterday.

The opening of the 13km Nenagh-Limerick stretch had previously been delayed, by almost a year, by subsidence of the new road at Birdhill, Co Tipperary.

The planned access point for the official opening ceremony was yesterday obstructed by heavy vehicles amid claims that monies were outstanding to some companies that provided services for the new route.