Growing objections to M20 motorway plan

Brian Hyde, CLAG chairman, believes Cork-Limerick traffic should join up with an M24 motorway at the M8 junction near Cahir, rather than having the expense and disruption of building the M20.  Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Autistic children are in danger of losing therapeutic horse-riding, farms could be badly split becoming unviable, while Bovine TB could dramatically rise — just for the sake of making a journey 16 minutes shorter.

These are among the claims of a growing groundswell of objectors to the proposed new Cork-Limerick motorway (M20) who are questioning its environmental and social impacts as well as the ballooning cost, estimated to have climbed to nearly €3bn.