New Dursey Island cable car planning challenged by environmental group

The current cableway facilitates the operation of a single six-person cable car used by about 20,400 visitors each year, according to planning documents. The two new cable cars would be able to carry 15 people each, with monthly users capped at 5,000. Picture: Denis Minihane

An environmental group has launched a High Court challenge seeking to quash planning permission for the development of a new cable car system connecting Co Cork’s Beara Peninsula and Dursey Island.

An Bord Pleanála gave Cork County Council the go-ahead in November last for the decommissioning of the existing cableway structure and the construction of a new two-way cableway, with operating stations and a mainland exhibition centre, cafe and car park.