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Limerick farmer ‘can’t sleep’ over M20 route
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THE WORLDS of dairy and stud farming have joined together in Manister to object to the M20 Limerick to Cork Motorway cutting through their locality.
Peter Molony, Irish representative of Qatar Racing, owner of Rathmore Stud and manager of Spring Lodge in Manister, tweeted that top Limerick stud farms and archaeological sites would be “threatened”.
His boss - Sheikh Fahad Al-Thani, who heads up Qatar Racing, has invested millions in Manister.
Dairy farmer Rose Keating says she “cannot sleep at night” due to the worry.
“There are proposed routes going through my parish of Manister and townland of Croom and surrounding areas. We have written to the council and made submissions to try and stop this as it would destroy our community.