Controversial Bus Connects plan to knock hole in wall of historic Cork army barracks dropped

Campaigners in Ballincollig opposed NTA proposal to create a 2m-wide archway in a section of the town’s 19th-century barracks wall at the landmark East Gate to facilitate the construction of a new footpath

A section of the historic army barracks wall at East Gate, Ballincollig, where BusConnects Cork plans to create a new archway through the wall for a footpath have been dropped.

Controversial plans to knock a hole for a new footpath through an historic army barracks wall as part of the Cork Bus Connects plan have been dropped.

The National Transport Authority’s (NTA) decision follows criticism in Ballincollig over the proposal to create a 2m-wide archway in a section of the town’s 19th- century barracks wall at the landmark East Gate to facilitate the construction of a new footpath.