24th May 2026
Few will remember a time before 1983, when Ireland didn’t have any motorways. It was at that time, the 5th of October 1983 to be exact that Ireland’s first motorway, the Naas bypass was opened to traffic. Before then, all traffic heading out of Dublin for Limerick, Cork and Waterford, and going the other way, […]
29th Jul 2025
After nearly four years of work, which one engineer working on the project described as akin to performing an open-heart surgery, but with the patient not only awake and conscious, but playing tennis, the final link on the Dunkettle Interchange was opened to traffic on the 12th February 2024. The Dunkettle Interchange is situated on […]
11th Jan 2022
It was during the Christmas break, that I decided to go down to Wexford, for a photoshoot after sunset. There is a railway line running along the quay in the town, from Wexford’s O’Hanrahan Railway Station (named after one of the 16 executed leaders of the 1916 Rising), down to Rosslare Harbour. It is along […]
9th Feb 2020
On the 30th January, the New Ross Bypass opened to traffic, including the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge, which crosses the Barrow. This bridge, being 887m in length, is the longest bridge in Ireland. The bridge is an extradosed bridge, which is a type of cable stayed bridge comprising of tensioned cables connecting pylons to the […]
4th Dec 2019
Last Saturday (30th November) I did a photoshoot, taking pictures featuring light trails from traffic on the Naas Dual Carriageway, the main arterial route out of Dublin serving the counties of Limerick, Cork and Waterford, and everywhere in between. It is the second busiest road in Ireland, second only to the M50, the Dublin Ring […]