Campaigners for the A5 road upgrade linking Donegal to Monaghan through the North say they have had a constructive meeting with the Stormont minister overseeing the project.
The A5 Enough is Enough group met Sinn Féin infrastructure minister John O’Dowd in Belfast yesterday.
The group is advocating a swift upgrade of 93 kilometres of the A5, which runs through counties Tyrone and Derry.
It is one of the most dangerous roads in Ireland, with dozens of families having lost loved ones along its route since the improvement scheme was first proposed 17 years ago.
It has been mired in planning wrangles and has seen costs rocket since.
The Irish Government recently pledged €600m, which is just under a third of the €1.9bn projected cost.
Kate Corrigan, whose 20-year-old son Nathan died alongside two friends in a crash on the A5 at Christmas 2021, was among the delegation.
She said the memory of her son motivated her to keep campaigning.
She lives close to the scene of her son’s accident and has to pass through the junction half a dozen times a day.
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