Town wins fight for junction with €800m motorway

PEOPLE living in a north Cork town are celebrating victory after successfully persuading the authorities to give them a direct access route to a planned €800 million motorway.

The motorway’s planners had decided not to provide a junction to Buttevant, which was to be the only town along the 80km Cork-Limerick motorway not have a connection to the road.

However, townsfolk mobilised and presented a forceful argument for a connection when they put their case to a lengthy oral hearing held by Bord Pleanála last July.