Pylon submissions pour into Eirgrid up to deadline

Submissions continued to stream into Eirgrid yesterday as the deadline closed for the largest and most controversial public consultation process it has conducted.

Thousands of contributions were received during the extended submission period for the proposed €500m Gridlink project that has proposed running up to 300km of cross-country pylons between Kildare and Cork.

Opponents of Eirgrid’s preferred plan, to erect 45m pylons rather than bury the cables, sought to rally support right up until the 5pm deadline.