FIE ‘can’t claim human rights breaches’

It is rare that a campaign is faulted for representing too many people but that, in essence, was one of the arguments against the group who took the State to court for failing to meet its climate change responsibilities.

Rory Mulcahy SC told the High Court that Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) could not assert that any failures breached human rights under the Constitution and the European Convention because the group was not a “human person”.