Land row could delay rail station by years

IT has emerged that it could now take years before a railway station is built in Dunkettle, on the eastern side of Cork city.

Planning permission for the station – which would have formed the final part of the Cork-Midleton commuter line – has been refused by Bord Pleanála following a row over ownership of the land between the National Roads Authority (NRA), Iarnród Éireann and Cork County Council.

The NRA successfully argued that although the local authority owned the land, it was given it to use for future upgrading of the interchange adjacent to the Jack Lynch Tunnel.