Public paying price for opposing harbour plans

Your coverage on page one, and two-page spread on pages six and seven of the Irish Examiner (April 6) was excellent writing by Eoin English.

Within it, several references were made to the Port of Cork’s deepwater development aspirations in Ringaskiddy, a development that is currently before An Bórd Pleanála for a planning decision.

A consubstantial development had a planning application refused in 2008. That application cost the taxpayers of this country dearly; many millions of euro were expended by the Port of Cork in putting the application together.