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Clare’s Green Party Senator says a rail connection to Shannon Airport will transform connectivity in South East Clare and its environs. The provisions contained in the National Development Plan will also include connections with Cratloe and Bunratty. Much of what is contained in the 165 billion euro plan, from a Clare perspective, contains significant projects […]

An upgrade of the N24 between Cahir and Limerick Junction has also been included in the latest National Development Plan. This has been widely welcomed as showing the Government’s commitment to improving the route, particularly the long awaited bypass of Tipperary Town. The project, led by Tipperary County Council, is currently going through the route […]

THE Government has launched the new National Development Plan 2021 - 2030 with several projects in Limerick included.  The €165 billion plan...

What was in the news 100 years ago today? Richard Forrest of Cork City Library reports

More than 400 submissions have been submitted regarding a major local road project. 

Plans for a significant housing development in Tipperary Town have been appealed to An Bord Pleanála. Kingscroft Developments Ltd were refused permission for 84 houses and a childcare facility on the Dundrum Road in the town. Among the reasons given by Tipperary County Council was that the 3.9 hectare site at Brodeen is within the […]

IRISH Rail’s preferred option is to upgrade the existing Limerick to Cork rail route and not build a new line from Charleville to the city, according to C...

Image source: Hedgerows Ireland A new national organisation, Hedgerows Ireland, is calling for specific legislation to be introduced to protect ‘Ireland’s rainforests’ – native hedgerow. The group recently met with, and stated its concerns and aims to, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM), Pippa Hackett and Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan. Its message was clear – it wants new legislation in the form of an am...

Limericks Live 95 Search By Live95 News Team Live 95 picture library A second public consultation on the M20 routes will provide people with much more clarity on the major road project. Transport Infrastructure Ireland has now officially confirmed further consultation will take place in September. Issues were raised by the Oireachtas Transport Committee on the lack of modelling demonstrated for the proposed routes in regar...

Second round of consultation for new Limerick motorway Reporter: );  ); A SECOND round of consultation is to take place for the final make-up of the Limerick to Cork motorway. Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) plus Limerick City and County Council have confirmed the consultation with an announcement of the final make-up of the motorway, which will run alongside the existing N20 route via Charleville, due in September. A number of options on how the €1bn project will be laid out are cur...