This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do people in Portpatrick think of the Scotland-Northern Ireland bridge? Where there's a will Image source, Mike Faherty. Larne has been suggested as one end of the huge construction project. A report is expected back in the summer.
View comments. Related Topics. Campbeltown Larne Portpatrick. Published 10 March. Published 14 February Published 2 March More recent arguments -- dubbed "sausage wars " -- between the European Union and the UK over trade links disrupted by Brexit have added a fresh impetus to the search for a way to create a frictionless route across the water.
The distances involved are short. However, there are geological and environmental challenges so immense this would be one of the most technically ambitious projects in engineering history. There are also questions of economics, infrastructure and entrenched local politics.
Now isolated in Europe, the UK today has a reputation more for burning bridges than building them. However, if it pulls this project off, it could be a wonder to rival the Golden Gate Bridge or the Channel Tunnel.
The question the upcoming report must answer is: Can a fixed sea link be done -- and is it worth it? Bridge over troubled water. Legend has it that the countries were once linked by a bridge made of these basalt columns created by ancient volcanic lava flow. But deep below the surface of this narrow sea you'll also find Beaufort's Dyke, a huge kilometer-long natural trench created during the last glacial period. Its average depth is around meters, but at its deepest point, it's about twice that -- enough to submerge the Eiffel Tower.
This dyke lies slap-bang on the most direct route between Scotland and Ireland, and what's more, it's the largest known British military dump. There are more than a million tons of unexploded munitions here, as well as chemical weapons and radioactive waste, jettisoned by the UK Ministry of Defence between World War II and the mids.
On top of this, there are rough seas, strong currents, and the famously unpredictable Irish and Scottish weather. The munitions are the first challenge to the fixed sea link project.
The clearance operation. It's "a considerable clearance campaign," says David Welch, managing director of bomb and explosives disposal experts Ramora UK: "not impossible, but incredibly challenging. Visit Inverness and try and find the Loch Ness Monster! You can drive here or take this easy day tour from Edinburgh. The roads are one lane so you must share the road with oncoming traffic.
You can find the tour here. Be sure to read my complete guide to the Isle of Skye before going. On the last day of your Scotland and Ireland vacation, travel back to Edinburgh and either fly home from there or fly back to Dublin to fly home.
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You can travel to Scotland from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to visit friends and family and can stay overnight. Travelling to Scotland from Ireland for a holiday is a breeze - with frequent sailings and flights between major ferry ports and airports, you can board a boat or plane and be here in just a few hours.
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