Gareth Dennis

A fixed link to Scotland is plausible but costly. And Ben Lowry says he has watched far simpler projects like the Belfast-Dublin road above take more than 30 years to upgrade. It is not even an expressway yet. Above a tractor crosses through a gap junction on part of the route (A1 at Loughbrickland), built to such a basic standard as recently as 2006

Opinion Ben Lowry: Scotland tunnel isn’t fantasy, but something kids of today might see Ben Lowry