Boris Johnson's Irish Sea tunnel vision - roadworthy or pipe dream? 22 August 2021 A tunnel could be built under the Irish Sea stretching from Portpatrick in Scotland ...

The sheer depth of the Irish Sea, home to a vast underwater chasm more than 250 metres deep, makes an underground tunnel very difficult indeed (Getty) ...

The Rogfast project in Norway is an underground tunnel lying 392 metres (1,300ft) underneath the seabed. It is hoped the ...

Boris Johnson has always been a fan of big transport infrastructure projects but his romantic enthusiasm for an Irish Sea tunnel or bridge is not shared by the population of Northern Ireland ...

Just a few years before the outbreak of the Troubles, the old Northern Ireland government examined the possibility of a tunnel to Scotland in which driverless electric trains moved back and forth ...

BORIS Johnson's plans for a bridge or tunnel connecting Northern Ireland with Scotland have been officially scrapped after a review to be published this week found the projects would be too ...

Proposals for a bridge linking Scotland and Northern Ireland could be abandoned in place of a tunnel, a key figure has revealed Peter Hendy, who is chairing a government-commissioned review into ways ...

The UK had used Beaufort’s Dyke in the Irish Sea as a munitions dump during the Second World War and the trench itself, at some 300 metres deep, also presented a problem in itself.

Dominic Cummings has described it as "the world's most stupid tunnel to Ireland". Many others agree with the prime minister's former chief adviser, that Boris Johnson's tunnel vision is a bit of a ...

Prof Dunlop's 'floating tunnel' would be connected and secured to the seabed by cables, similar to technology used on North Sea oil rigs.

Dominic Cummings has described it as "the world's most stupid tunnel to Ireland". Many others agree with the prime minister's former chief adviser, that Boris Johnson's tunnel vision is a bit of a ...