Limerick boreens used as 'rat runs' to avoid Adare bottleneck

Residents in a quiet corner of Co Limerick now live in fear of dangerous heavy traffic caused by thousands of motorists who use the neighbourhood boreens as a 'rat run' to avoid Adare, one of the country's worst bottlenecks.

A series of narrow country roads designed to take local traffic is snarled up by over 2,500 motorists each day who use the twisting ditch-lined route to circumvent the N21 at Adare.