N86 works delay warning

Long-awaited improvements to the N86 main road, through the Dingle Peninsula, could be delayed for up to 20 years if An Bord Pleanála does not give the all-clear for the work to proceed.

The warning came from Kerry Co Council’s roads director Charlie O’Sullivan regarding a €65m scheme to widen and straighten a large section of a narrow road between Dingle and Tralee.

The project was the subject of a Bord Pleanála hearing, earlier this year, and the board decided the council must go back to the drawing board.