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An ultra-fast super-capacity data cable has been brought ashore on the south coast linking Ireland to one of the world’s fastest transatlantic fibre-optic sub-sea cables.

Global networks operator Hibernia Networks landed the ‘spur’ off its €200m 100-gigabit-per-second Project Express cable, which is being laid between Canada and Europe, on Garrettstown beach near Kinsale, Co Cork, early yesterday morning.

A cable-laying vessel, CS Resolute, helped bring the cable ashore, where technicians using special drilling equipment brought the cable under the beach and road to a connecting station.