Ó Cuiv grovels to intransigent farm groups

THE legal experts whom Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Eamon Ó Cuiv commissioned to enquire into the legal aspects of access to the countryside have certainly left the minister with egg on his face.

I imagine the last thing he wanted to hear was that legal rights of way not only have no constitutional implications, but they barely infringe the rights of landowners and should not result in compensation for them.

In coming to these conclusions, the experts have had the precedent of most of Europe to go on.