Engineers closed Cork to Limerick road despite ‘political fallout’

Engineers pressed ahead with a controversial full junction closure process for an exit on the N20 Cork to Limerick road even though it appeared it was “doomed politically”, it has emerged.

Documents released under Freedom of Information legislation also show that a decision was taken in August to proceed with the statutory process to extinguish the right of way at the Waterloo junction near Blarney even as a possible engineering compromise was being discussed.