Ringaskiddy motorway will ‘go into residents’ bedrooms’

A proposed €180m motorway linking Cork City to Ringaskiddy will be “going into the bedrooms” of residents living along the route, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin told a planning hearing yesterday.

However, consultants defended the chosen route and dismissed suggestions a different course should have been chosen, stating that there is no planning policy in place to endorse the development of an alternative roadway.

The proposed development envisages an upgrade of around 12.5km of the N28, from the Bloomfield interchange at the South Ring Road to the Port of Cork in Ringaskiddy.