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By Elizabeth Lee WHILE others were busy baking banana bread or perfecting their sourdough ‘mother’, Dr Eoghan Smith spent his time writing a book during the…
'Sell-out' and 'exaggeration' claims in bitter Offaly wind energy split Reporter: '); '); AMID allegations of sell-outs, underhanded activity, exaggeration and emotional rhetoric, Offaly councillors voted by the narrowest of margins against a proposal to exclude Lemanaghan Bog entirely from an area in the county where wind farms may be permitted. Instead of adopting a motion from Cllr Ken Smollen for Lemanaghan's outright exclusion, the council opted by nine votes to eight to pass an amendment tabled by Cllr Frank Moran which seeks to create a turbine-free zone at least 700m wide around th...
BY a margin of 12 to five, councillors in Offaly have voted to remove the 2km buffer zone between wind turbines and towns and villages. The zone's removal had b...