Cork/Limerick Motorway: Objectors to M20 plan have a raft of concerns

A map showing the proposed new M24 route that would connect Waterford to Limerick and serve Cork through the M8 junction in Cahir. Removing the need for the proposed M20 motorway direct from Cork to Limerick.

An alternative route via Cahir has been proposed as a far more sensible and cheaper option to connect all three cities in Munster writes Sean O’Riordan. He talks to farmers, business people, and homeowners who are opposed to an expensive plan that would offer a more direct route between Cork and Limerick

Apart from being trumpeted “a waste of money” amid massive State-borrowing to combat Covid-19, those objecting to the proposed Cork-Limerick motorway (M20) claim it will have a serious impact on wildlife, the environment, the well-being of school children, farming livelihoods and a very possible rise in Bovine TB.