Anger as cycleway rejection throws tourism plan into jeopardy

Plans to include cycle-ways in upgrades to tourist routes along the west and south coasts could be in jeopardy following An Bord Pleanála’s rejection of a €65m development on the Dingle Peninsula.

A decision by the planning appeals board to turn down proposals to straighten and widen 28km of the N86 Tralee to Dingle road drew angry reaction yesterday from local people who have been campaigning for decades for improvements.

Kerry mayor Séamus Cosaí Fitzgerald, a councillor on the peninsula, said 10 people had been killed in accidents on the road and he warned of further fatalities in the future.