Cork-Limerick motorway delay ‘to hit business’

The chief executive of Munster Rugby has criticised the Government for failing to fund the most urgently needed road connection in the country, and says the oversight will damage the regional economy.

The Government this week announced several road projects but decided not to proceed with the mothballed M20, the proposed Cork-Limerick motorway.

Head of Munster Rugby, Garrett Fitzgerald, said businesses would suffer because of the omission. He said that Munster Rugby was a regional business employing 140 people, with a turnover of €14m last year.