I’ve word from a good source that the funding for this will be announced at the next review of the capital spending plan. However I suppose it’ll be 4 years before they turn a sod by the time they take the land off the farmers etc.
2023 was best completion date expected when it was announced so that sounds about right
While they are waiting for that they should start work on bypassing buttevant at least and spare us all the misery. It must be a horrible place for the poor bastards that inhabit the place to live.
and Charleville. Cunt of a place.
I wonder with the amount they spend on these bypasses would it be cheaper to just level the offending towns? Obviously there are a lot of cases where the towns would be a loss, but Charleville would certainly be a candidate you’d imagine.
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About 6 years for route selection, planning, CPO & tenders. Allow 2 to 3 years for completion. It can take 10 years from start to finish.
We could resettle them in Leitrim in those empty housing estates. Two problems solved in one go. I’d turn this country around in a week if they let me at it
I can’t remember who but heard a politician suggest one time that connecting limerick cork through michelstown mway "spur " might be quicker and cheaper
Yeah, that has been floated as an idea but not a likely runner for both population and political reasons. The connection is to both provide a shorter and safer route Limerick to Cork plus provide infrastructure for the corridor in between. It is badly needed, and not just for Munster rugby.
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Badly needed is an understatement
why because East Limerick is full of Fianna Failers?
Politics is on the Cork side of the border. Same type of politics as spent 100m on a new airport but did not link it to a sufficient customer base.
true. Grand airport though for me.
I was out the Ennis Road side Monday night so I said we’d call into the Woodfield for a bite to eat. The food was grand, non-descript really, but fucking hell lads there must have been a good 40 lads drinking pints there at 6 O’Clock of a Monday evening and another 7 or 8 outside in the sun doing the same. It must be a candidate for the busiest bar in Limerick midweek? What a boring kip of a place to drink pints as well. There is a huge market for a proper pub out that side, (that isn’t a complete hovel).
The Davin was my first local in Limerick, seemed to do well enough as well, if they had improved the food it could have been a goldmine, why did it close that time?
Think it was just the site was too valuable. They got mad money for it if I recall correctly.
They paved paradise* and put up a (Lidl) parking lot.
*The Davin wasn’t exactly paradise.
Indeed it wasn’t. Has left an awful void pre & post match though.
Did both of your personalities enjoy it?
It was a goldmine.