Chambers of Commerce insisting on direct Cork to Limerick route

Chambers of Commerce in Cork and Limerick have firmly quashed rumours they are in favour of routing a motorway between the two cities via Mitchelstown.

Rumours were rife among Cork county councillors at a recent meeting in County Hall that the business bodies supported having an alternative to the now-mothballed M20 project run through the north Cork town.

The supposed logic of this was that a motorway link already existed from Cork to Mitchelstown and, therefore it would be far less expensive to build a link from there to Limerick instead of a complete new €800m link from Cork to Limerick.