Limerick-Cork motorway is scrapped

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CONSTRUCTION workers in the Limerick and Cork areas who had been waiting with โ€œbated breathโ€ for the governmentโ€™s promise of creating hundreds of jobs, have received a โ€œslap in the faceโ€, according to FIanna Fail spokesperson for Transport, Timmy Dooley. He was commenting on the governmentโ€™s confirmation that a number of major projectsย  are to be axed, as transport bears the brunt of capital spending cuts.
The planned motorway that would have cut the travel time between Limerick and Cork by half an hour has been axed.

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While some โ‚ฌ20million has already been spent on the initial stages of the M.20, the โ‚ฌ1billion project is now among those that will be scrapped.

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