Bam expected to begin works on €206m Cork motorway 'very quickly'

The building firm  is also involved in the long-running Cork Event Centre, where spiralling costs led to the Government to ordering a new tendering process for a public funding package now in the tens of millions

Seated left to right: Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Cork County Council chief executive Moira Murrell, Bam Ireland executive director Alasdair Henderson, and councillor Martin Coughlan. Standing are Port of Cork's Henry Kingston, transport minister Darragh O'Brien; Cork County Counil's Padraig Barrett, minister of state Jerry Buttimer, Cork City Council's chief executive Valerie O'Sullivan, and deputy lord mayor of Cork, councillor Honore Kamegni along with senior management and representatives of Cork County Council and Cork City Council at the contract signing. Picture: Michael O'Sullivan / OSM

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he expects construction to begin “very quickly” on the main €206m section of the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy motorway.

Mr Martin was speaking ahead of the official signing by Cork County Council of its contract with building firm Bam to build the section of motorway from Bloomfield interchange on the N40 South Ring Rd to Barnahely, near the Port of Cork.