FARMERS AND LANDOWNERS DETERMINED TO DENY ACCESS TO CONTRACTORS
EIRGRID PREPARES TO CONSULT IN CORK BUT NOT THE NORTH EAST
Michael Fisher
Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibín has accused EirGrid of pig-headedly forcing through a particular version of the North South interconnector (a 400kV overhead line) on the communities of Monaghan, Cavan and Meath.
The Meath West Deputy also said there was a danger of the Environment Minister Denis Naughten ‘sleepwalking’ into a situation that would be far worse than the ‘Shell to Sea’ conflict over a gas line in Mayo in 2005, when a number of protestors were jailed. Deputy Tóibín spoke in the Dáil on Tuesday about the…
