It carries the Green Line of the Luas over the busy Taney junction, of the R112 and R117 regional roads as well as the little-known Slang River.

The 50 metre high pylon was made using reinforced concrete and 13 pairs of high-tensile steel cables.

[5] Construction was completed on 2 August 2002, where, in front of several hundred onlookers, Minister for Transport Seamus Brennan remotely tightened a stress block.

It included the Luas chief architect, Jim Quinlan, historian Briain MacAonghusa and a representative of South Dublin County Council.

[9][10] After the death of Seamus Brennan in July 2008, Fianna Fáil councilor Gerry Horkan proposed the bridge should be renamed after him,[11] which was turned down.