Long wait goes on for key roads project

A significant upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange was first announced in 2011. Cost overruns to the €100m project, revealed by this paper last week, could seeit delayed by up to 18 months, which would mean the entire process will have taken more than a decade. Joe Leogue looks back at the long-awaited plan.

Recognising that the northern gateway into Cork City was a traffic blackspot, in April 2011 the National Roads Authority — which would later become Transport Infrastructure Ireland — unveiled five different options for the Dunkettle Interchange.