Green light for limited renovations to church

Bord Pleanála has given the Diocese of Kerry permission to carry out some, but not all, of the extensive renovations and reordering, it considers necessary to the parish church of St John in Ballybunion.

Heritage body An Taisce had objected on the grounds that some of the proposals were exceptionally invasive on a protected structure.

The church was designed by the architect George Ashlin in 1894 and is a protected building under the Planning and Development Act 2000.