I leave Navan around seven every morning and get to Beaumont about 10 past eight. I'm a tutor there, so I have to organise my class before the nine o'clock start. If I leave at 7.30 a.m. I can't guarantee to be starting the class by nine. The worst bits on the N3 are getting through Dunshaughlin. That's the route most commuters use. We live on the Trim road, so I make my way across the N3 and travel on the N2 through Ashbourne. It's definitely a better route, less busy and congested and dual-carriageway part of the way.
We came back a year ago from the UK, so the whole notion of commuting was nothing new. You didn't blink an eyelid in England commuting to work in London. I'm so used to the journey now it's routine, though it gets irritating by the time Friday morning arrives. There's a slow steady stream of traffic - it's like a means to an end. With the proposed new N3 motorway and bypasses of Navan and Dunshaughlin, there'll be a super-highway to Navan and this will open up a lot of job opportunities for the town.
In an interview with Kate McMorrow
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