Carrickmines campaigners to seek appeal date

Campaigners trying to save the medieval Carrickmines castle site in south Dublin will return to the courts today.

They are appealing a High Court decision last week that cleared the way for the local authority to demolish the site to make way for a new motorway.

Last week two of the campaigners, Gordon Lucas and Dominic Dunne, failed to get an injunction preventing Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council from removing part of the ditch at Carrickmines castle, which is on the line of the new South Eastern motorway.

The site they are trying to save is a well preserved medieval garrison settlement, which may date back to the 13th century.

Solicitors acting for the two protestors will today try to secure an early date for an appeal of last week's High Court decision.

When a date for the appeal has been set lawyers for Mr Lucas and Mr Dunne will write to the council asking for an undertaking that work on the site will stop until the appeal has been heard.