€8.5m Great Blasket plan treading water

COLD water is continuing to be poured over an €8.5m development plan for the Great Blasket island.

Fresh rows are erupting over ferry services and other proposed commercial facilities on the island off Co Kerry.

Objections are emerging to the current arrangement where Peter Callery, whose company Blascaoid Mor Teoranta owns 17 of the 25 holdings on the island, has an exclusive deal with the Government to provide the only ferry service operating out of Dingle.