Dublin tops infrastructure spend

IT might have seemed as if nothing moved in construction and infrastructure in Ireland in the year that most will rather forget.

But, as billions of euros were swallowed up in the Irish banks’ black hole, a few key things did get delivered.

Limerick’s 900 metre Shannon tunnel opened during the summer, as part of a €650 million investment, feeding along the way into the Limerick-Galway route, with the €200m, 23km long Gort/Crusheen bypass also opening.