Castle campaigners set to fight on

THE campaign to save Carrickmines Castle is expected to move to the Supreme Court within weeks after the High Court rejected the latest attempt to save the medieval remains from the path of the M50 motorway.

But conservationists face a race against the clock as Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council say it will only be a matter of weeks before bulldozers are ready to roll on to the historic site.

The council yesterday set a new target date of September 2005 for the opening of the motorway’s controversial last section, 11 months later than was originally scheduled. It said delays caused by legal challenges had added €10 million to the cost of the €144m development.