Green light for phone mast after council planning refusal overturned

A KERRY County Council decision to refuse planning permission for a mobile phone mast along one of the country’s main tourist routes has been overturned by An Bord Pleanala.

O2 Communications has been given the all-clear to erect an 11.5-metre mast close to the village of Caherdaniel, on the Ring of Kerry.

A nine-metre mast had been on the site since 2001 but the company had to apply for retention under the conditions of the original planning permission.