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Tue 06 Jun 2007Company apologises after saying motorway opening would be delayedThe managing director of National Toll Roads yesterday apologised for a statement which cast doubt on the State's ability to complete the inter-urban motorway programme by 2010.Kyran Hurley said a statement that an interlinking section of the M7 and M8 Dublin-to-Cork and Dublin-to-Limerick motorways would take until 2011 to be completed, "was a mistake".