Heritage groups plan motorway legal challenge

ENVIRONMENTALISTS are planning a legal challenge to the completion of the C-ring motorway around Dublin as its route will destroy large parts of an important medieval site at Carrickmines.

It follows yesterday’s announcement by Transport Minister Seamus Brennan of a set of compromise proposals to preserve a maximum area of Carrickmines Castle which lies on the route of the final stage of the M50 under construction.

Environmental and heritage groups expressed bitter disappointment at Mr Brennan’s failure to adopt their suggestion of redesigning access and feeder roads servicing the new South Eastern Motorway to preserve the vast majority of the site.