Manxmog,
You can now go round Dublin via the Port tunnel to the M50( you enter the tunnel at the Port) and thence to the N8 - motorway to Cork. Thus you do not have to suffer the Dublin traffic anymore!!

This route would save you a few hundred miles!!!

Cheers!

Robbie
2021 Plus Four -- Helga
211-WX-1433

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