The wall that costs taxpayers €100,000 a week

COMPROMISE is still possible to save both Carrickmines Castle and the South Eastern Motorway, conservationists who challenged the route of the road project have insisted.

The two sides in the dispute were last night assessing the implications of yesterday's Supreme Court order to stop work at the site of the medieval castle ruins pending a full High Court hearing on the issues involved.

But while supporters of the €500m motorway warned the long-awaited road project could be delayed indefinitely by the legal wrangle, the Carrickminders who took the case to the Supreme Court said there remained a sensible and acceptable solution to the impasse.