Who owns the land? The decades-old dispute unfolding on Achill Island

An Achill farming family says no evidence has been produced for a compulsory purchase order Mayo County Council says dates to the 1970s

Martin Calvey: An Achill Island farmer is challenging Mayo County Council’s claim to land containing the Keel campsite, amid questions over a supposed 1970s purchase. Picture: Conor McKeown

There was an issue at the boom-bridge on Achill Island that blew open a dispute reaching back decades. 

Land, inevitably, was at the heart of it.