Environmentalist wins case over freshwater pearl mussels in Blackwater River

File image of Blackwater River in Fermoy

An Environmental activist has succeeded in a legal challenge brought against the State's decision to remove certain protections from a rare and protected species of freshwater pearl mussel.

Peter Sweetman brought High Court proceedings seeking to quash the making of any legislation or administrative act to remove the freshwater pearl mussel as a "qualifying interest" from any part of the Munster Blackwater Special Area of Conservation (SAC).