Farmer in case against cable

A legal challenge has been mounted against a decision by An Bord Pleanála that a high-voltage underground cable connecting a €21m windfarm in Cavan to the national gird is an exempted development.

Anti-windfarm campaigner Val Martin, who owns a farm near the windfarm at Raragh, Kingscourt, which is under construction, is to have his case heard in the big business division of the High Court.

Mr Martin, of Gortnakesh, Cavan Town, is challenging a decision made by An Bord Pleanála in May that the provision of a 20-kilovolt underground cable, forming the grid connection between the Raragh windfarm and the existing ESB substation 5km away at Kilaulun, Co Meath, is an exempted development.