Concerns over 10-acre site converter station plans for East Cork village

People living in an East Cork village are concerned about plans which could disturb a site where dozens of British soldiers were executed by an IRA unit during the War of Independence.

Concerns over 10-acre site converter station plans for East Cork village

People living in an East Cork village are concerned about plans which could disturb a site where dozens of British soldiers were executed by an IRA unit during the War of Independence.

EirGrid has drawn up a shortlist of potential land-based electrical converter sites as part of a €900m plan to lay a submarine cable to transmit electricity between France and Ireland.

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