Stephen Cadogan: Discrimination added to injustice in hen harrier SPAs

Only one landowner has not suffered major losses of opportunity and income caused by designation of 170,000 hectares for protection of the hen harrier bird, writes Stephen Cadogan.

Only one landowner has not suffered major losses of opportunity and income caused by designation of 170,000 hectares for protection of the hen harrier bird.

That is the state-owned Coillte, whose lands in hen harrier Special Protection Areas (SPAs) have hundreds of wind turbines, many of them erected after the lands became designated in 2007.