Ring road for Galway city gets green light 27 years after it was first planned

An artist impression of part of the Galway City Ring Road proposal in 2021.  Although plans for an outer ring road were first granted in 2008, they were shelved in 2013. There have been various legal actions and reviews since, and the route has been shortened to 18km. File picture

An Coimisiún Pleanála has granted planning permission for the N6 Galway City Ring Road — 27 years after engineers were first asked to plan it.

The €1bn project — which was initially priced at €600m — will run from the M6 motorway east of the city to west of the village of Bearna and includes a new crossing over the River Corrib.