The long-delayed Cork to Limerick motorway — the M20 — has been part of Munster’s mythology for almost as long as promises around draining the Shannon have resurfaced with each passing flood.
In the decades since the M20 was mooted, our world — and our ideas of our obligations to the environment around us — have changed if not completely then dramatically.
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