New M28 may have ‘devastating’ impact on golf course

The development of a €180m motorway could have a “devastating” impact on Cork’s oldest 18-hole golf course unless major mitigation measures are put in place.

Douglas Golf Club members have told an An Bord Pleanála oral hearing into the proposed Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway (M28) that a two-lane slip road to be built as part of it will have a major impact on the club.

Conor O’Brien, the club’s general manager, said a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) had been lodged for 3.5 acres of land on its southern boundary for the a slip road.