Farmers challenge to Intel planning permission should be head in presence of other parties, judge directs

A High Court judge has ruled an application by a farmer for permission to legally challenge a decision giving Intel Ireland the go-ahead for a €3.6 billion expansion to its facility in Co Kildare must be heard in the presence of the other parties.

Mr Thomas Reid is seeking to legally challenge a decision by An Bord Pleanála made last November to grant the computer chip manufacturing giant planning permission to expand its manufacturing facility at Collinstown, in Leixlip.