Long-awaited Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway moves a step closer 

Supporters of the motorway say the project will ignite new economic and industrial life in the region by unlocking a major IDA landbank in the area and supporting the Port of Cork's move downriver to Ringaskiddy. Picture: Port of Cork Company

The long-awaited Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway has moved a step closer with Cork City Council sounding out market interest in the €250m M28 project which is set to go out to tender within the next 12 months.

One of the biggest infrastructure plans in recent Cork history cleared its final legal hurdle earlier this year, after the option to petition the Supreme Court was declined.