Cork-Limerick greenway: Taking the right road to generate a natural cycle of health and wealth

The planned new M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick could provide the basis for a spectacular greenway project that would breathe new life into the towns and communities along the way. Pádraig Hoare reports

Coordinator of Cork’s Transport Mobility Forum Sandy McGroarty and her mother Mary McGroarty cycling the Waterford Greenway. "It was my mother's first time on a bike in over 50 years and the only reason she did it was because of the safety the greenway provided."

Imagine hundreds of families on their bicycles, away from bustling traffic, creating lifelong memories and oodles of fun, as they stop off for ice cream, picnics and local produce as they meander through villages and towns of Cork and Limerick.

It’s easy if you try, as the old song goes.