An Taisce is ‘enemy No 1’

PLANNING organisation An Taisce has been labelled “public enemy number one” by rural dwellers annoyed at its objections to housing plans.

The Irish Rural Dwellers Association, holding its first convention tomorrow, says An Taisce’s constant planning objections to one-off housing were depopulating rural Ireland.

“Villages can’t survive without houses in the hinterland. An Taisce are planning from Dublin and ignoring the common point of view. Democracy has gone out the door,” said the association’s acting secretary, Jim Connolly.