Kerry County Council worried challenges to greenway will affect tourism and health

The council wants the earliest possible hearing date for the challenges against the South Kerry Greenway

Part of the proposed 32 kilometre greenway for cyclists and walkers in South Kerry. It is planned to run between Glenbeigh and Caherciveen, mainly along the disused route of the Southern and Western Railway. File Photo: Valerie O'Sullivan

Kerry County Council is concerned about potential tourism, health and funding implications of two separate legal challenges to planning approval for a proposed 32km cycle and pedestrian greenway in south Kerry, the High Court has been told.

Arising from those concerns, Esmonde Keane SC, for the council, applied today for the earliest possible hearing of the challenges over An Bord Pleanala’s approval of November last.