Protest targets restrictive planning

ABOUT 60 people yesterday mounted a protest outside a Kerry County Council meeting in Tralee, against what they claimed were over-restrictive planning policies in rural areas.

Some of those taking part in the Irish Rural Dwellers’ Association (IRDA) protest said landowners were being planned out of existence, with IRDA founder Jim Connolly saying rural dwellers were suffering from British ideology.

“When we introduced planning laws in 1963, we invited British rule and ideas back into this country,” he said.