Residents in East Clare are celebrating a planning victory after winning a judicial review overturning planning permission for a controversial mast proposed for Scariff.
Eoin Brady of FP Logue LLP Solicitors, took judicial review proceedings on behalf of East Clare residents challenging planning permission granted to Eircom Limited in January 2023.
This involved the replacement of a 12 metre wooden pole with a 21 metre high telecommunications monopole together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, enclosed by security fencing at Connacht Road, Scariff.
The Bord Pleanála order for the telecoms mast was quashed and the matter has been sent back to the board for further consideration.
The site is an existing Eir facility and communications exchange to the north east of Scariff, which includes an existing single-storey building with two…
