Environmental group's challenge to part of biggest capital spend in State's history opens before Supreme Court — Sligo

(Pictured: Chief Justice Mr Justice Donal O’Donnell. Photo: Collins) An environmental group’s appeal against a refusal by the lower courts to overturn part of the biggest capital expenditure plan in the history of the State – the €165 billion Project Ireland 2040' plan – has opened before a seven-ju

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An environmental group's challenge to a major State capital investment plan has opened before the Supreme Court. Friends of the Irish Environment brought the appeal against the €165 billion Project Ireland 2040 scheme, which was originally adopted at a Cabinet meeting in Sligo in February 2018. The organisation contends that the plan, comprising the National Planning Framework and National Development Plan, was…