Business people urged to get behind plan for golf links at Inch

BUSINESS people in Kerry were yesterday urged to get behind a campaign to build a golf links, projected to create 65 jobs.

Plans for the links on a site at Inch, in the Dingle Peninsula, were conceived almost 20 years ago but have, so far, failed to get Government approval on environmental grounds.

Successive environment ministers have refused to give approval after being told by state experts, including the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), such a development would cause significant loss and damage to the habitat of the area. The 1,250-acre site for the proposed links is a candidate Special Area of Conservation (SAC).