BBC News - Narrow Water bridge plan is put on hold

9 July 2013Last updated at 17:10 GMT Narrow Water bridge plan is put on hold
Plans to build a cross-border bridge between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic have been put on hold.

Louth County Council said tenders had been significantly above the figure expected for the Narrow Water bridge project.

Funding for the bridge had been approved by Northern Ireland Finance Minister Sammy Wilson in May.

It had been planned the bridge would be built with support from the NI and Irish Republic governments and the EU.

Louth County Council said tenders it had received from construction companies for the project had ranged from 26m euros (?22.4m) to 40m euros (?34.5m),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].

"Having examined all of the tenders received from contractors competing to build the bridge, it is clear that their estimates of the cost of construction are considerably higher than the figures we have been working with to date," the council said in a statement.

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