Blaskets plan in ‘jeopardy’

AN €8.5 million plan to make the Great Blasket island a national historic park is in “grave jeopardy” following the refusal of An Bord Pleanála to give planning permission for a café, the biggest landowner on the island warned yesterday.

Peter Callery, whose company, Blascaoid Mór Teoranta, owns 17 of the 25 holdings on the island, said he wasn’t going to waste more time and money dealing with “impossible people.”

Kerry County Council had already granted the company planning for the café, but its decision has been overturned by An Bord Pleanála.