Decision on mussel farm in Kinsale delayed for almost a year due to the amount of opposition

A petition was signed by more than 5,000 people and there were some 147 appeals against the licence being granted to Paul Barlow, who runs Woodstown Bay Shellfish, in May

Some of the large turn out in June on Dock beach protesting the proposed mussel farm up for planning inside Kinsale harbour. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A decision on appeals against the granting of a licence for a massive mussel farm more than three times the size of Aviva Stadium in Cork will now not be made for almost a year.

The Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board had been due to make a decision on the farm near the harbour in Kinsale at the start of October.