Cycleway announced before landowners consulted

The Government had not even begun negotiations with up to 120 landowners before its pre-local and European elections’ announcements earlier this year, for a €4m greenway-cycleway on the Ring of Kerry.

Former junior tourism minister Alan Kelly, now the environment minister, had described the proposed project as “one of the world’s most dramatic cycleways”.

The proposed 26km route is along the old Great Southern Railway line between Glenbeigh and Caherciveen.