Report overruled to allow phone mast near crèche

AN BÓRD Pleanála was under fire last night for overruling a local authority and giving the green light for a mobile phone mast close to a Traveller halting site and a crèche.

Furious residents on Cork’s northside will picket Ballyvolane Business Park tomorrow to highlight the situation.

The protest follows a decision by the planning appeals board to grant Vodafone Ireland permission to erect a 20-metre mobile phone mast, with three pairs of GSM antennae and two radio link dishes, in the business park.