Irish Examiner View: Bridge building - Progress made, past marked

It is not necessary to be as sharp as PJ Mara was to imagine an election planner agreeing a date for the ribbon-cutting at this week’s opening of Ireland’s longest road span bridge.

It was a golden photo opportunity. That Taoiseach Leo Varadkar — a son of an immigrant — would cross the bridge with a scion of Irish American royalty, Rose Katherine Kennedy Townsend, after whose great-grandmother the bridge is named, meant the opportunity was at least underlined in red.