Niall Collins
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299 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Niall Collins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a new road which has been constructed from Limerick City, which will bypass Adair and link the port of Fines to the motorway network.
And that's being financed by money from the European Commission because the Port of Fines is our second largest port and there's a fund of money there to link our major ports to the motorway network.
Yeah, so just to give you context, that road scheme that I've just described encompasses an Adair bypass.
And it's the fourth version of an Adair bypass, which finally got over the line over a 40-year period.
So this road is a long time, this bypass is a long time in gestation and finally it's being constructed.
So you're right to say that it has been expedited by virtue of the Ryder Cup.
That decision was taken to carve out a section of the Limerick to Port of Fines new road where a seven kilometre section of that where a carve out was made to construct that in advance of the Ryder Cup.
Well, you could look at it that way, but you could also bear in mind what I've just told you.
We're 40 years waiting for this road.
And secondly, the project is shovel ready.
It had been through planning.
It had been through procurement.
You know, there have been a number of judicial reviews, which thankfully those hurdles were removed.
So it was kind of at the top of the queue, the same as every other large infrastructure project around the country goes through all of these processes.
They're all different.
They're all of their own challenges.
They're unique and they pose their own problems in terms of trying to bring them to fruition.
So I suppose the decision was taken.
The overall...
Estimated cost of the new Limerick Defines motorway is in the order of €455 million.
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