HIGH COURT DISMISSES PETER SWEETMAN’S CHALLENGE TO CITY OUTER BY PASS

Date Published: 09-Oct-2009

The High Court has dismissed a challenge by environmentalist Peter Sweetman to the Bord Pleanála approval of the Eastern half of the Galway City outer bypass.

Mr Sweetman of Lower Rathmines Road in Dublin took the case against the Bord and the State claiming that the road approval breached the Natural Habitats regulations.

Mr Justice George Birmingham will deliver his ruling later this afternoon in a second action against the development, by the environmental organisation, Hands Across the Corrib Ltd.

Galway county council indicated to Galway Bay FM News just last week, that the National Roads Authority is likely fund research on the Western half of the Outer bypass if both cases against the eastern half are dismissed today.