Farmer who threatened to dig up cables 'should be compensated by windfarm owner'

Judge said firm does not seem to have known it was trespassing on the man's lands when it laid cables for its wind farm in 2009 along his fenced-off lands

A windfarm owner should compensate a farmer who threatened to dig up its high voltage cables alongside a public road that abuts his land, the High Court has ruled.

Dromada Windfarm (FOI) Ltd, part of the SSE group, secured High Court orders two years ago preventing Denis Cremins from interfering with the electricity cables that were buried in 2009 along a roadside verge at his lands in Athea, Co Limerick.