A new bridge over the River Shannon, which connects Killaloe in Co Clare and Ballina in Co Tipperary, has been officially opened by Minister for Transport Darragh O'Brien.
It is the first new vehicular bridge across the Shannon in more than three decades, and forms part of the 6.2km Killaloe Bypass road project.
It has been named after the High King of Ireland Brian Ború, whose Kincora palace overlooked Lough Derg 1,000 years ago.
The transformative project provides a western bypass of Killaloe, and an upgrade of the existing R494 regional road from Ballina to the N7 at Birdhill.
The construction of the bridge was carried out by John Sisk and Son Ltd who were awarded the contract by Clare and Tipperary County Councils.
The bridge was a complex engineering feat that took two and a half years to complete. The initial overall cost estimate for the scheme was approximately €88m
