Challenge to Cork windfarm by residents rejected

A number of local residents have lost their legal challenge over the approval of permission for a windfarm development in Co Cork.

The residents’ concerns included the environmental impact of the development and noise from the turbines.

They disputed An Bord Pleanála’s June 2016 permission for a six-turbine windfarm, a substation, underground cables and associated development in the town lands of Derragh, Rathgaskig, Lack Beg, at Ballingeary.