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Carrick-on-Shannon
A planning application for the long-awaited bypass of Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim, will be lodged in 2026 and it involves a 6-kilometre road around the town, from the Dublin Road to the Boyle Road.
It will cost up to 500 million euro and aims to address big traffic problems in the town and Leitrim County Council chief executive, Joseph Gilhooly, says it's currently being designed.
Mr Gilhooley said on Shannonside.ie: "The remainder of the detailed design is ongoing; once we've finished with that, probably in Q1, 2026, we'll be passing it for national approval - each step has to be approved by the TII and the government. Allowing for a period of time for those approvals to be worked through the system and any queries or changes, we'd hope strongly that we would get that in too."
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