Motorway will devastate small rural community

WE are writing as concerned residents of Ballyhea village, a small rural community on the Cork-Limerick border, just under the beautiful Ballyhoura Mountains.

The NRA/Cork County Council have proposed to construct the M20 Cork-Limerick motorway right through the heart of our village, coming within a couple of hundred metres of our church and shop.

In order to do this they have to construct a half-a-kilometre-long viaduct/bridge because they are going through a flood plain of the Awbeg river.