Anti-pylon campaigners ‘not short of financial support’

Up to 10,000 landowners and householders, who have formed a national alliance to fight EirGrid’s €500m pylon corridor, have said their national campaign is not short of financial backing.

Dozens of anti-pylon groups from Cork, Carlow, Kilkenny, Kildare, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, and Wicklow have been meeting weekly since December with a view to forming a national group which can flex its political muscle in this year’s local elections.

Calling itself the Pylon Alternative Alliance, its chairman, Robert Duggan said the group has not yet decided whether it will put forward its own candidates in upcoming elections.