Permission for south Kerry greenway valid, High Court rules

Various grounds of challenge based on alleged breach of EU law, including failure to establish a system of “strict protection” for the Kerry slug, were also rejected

Last November, An Bord Pleanála granted permission for a 27km greenway between Glenbeigh to just outside Cahersiveen, to run mainly along the disused route of the Southern and Western Railway. Picture: Don MacMonagle

A High Court judge has rejected claims that a planning approval for a 27km cycle and pedestrian greenway in south Kerry is invalid.

Mr Justice Richard Humphreys, in a judgment on Monday on two separate challenges to the development, ruled the permission is valid.