Challenge to grid connection at Wicklow wind farm moved to fastrack Commercial Court

A legal challenge by environmentalist Peter Sweetman over the construction of the national grid connection to a wind farm in Co. Wicklow is to be heard in the fastrack Commerical Court.

Mr Sweetman is seeking an order quashing the decision of An Bord Pleanala in December 2018 determining the construction of the connections servicing a windfarm development located at Ballycumber, Tinahealy, Co Wicklow was exempted development.