Turbulent Times

Residents claim wind farm plans will damage lives and countryside

- Pat Flanagan

Families in a picturesque rural area fear their lives and the local countryside will be destroyed by the erection of 17 huge wind turbines towering over the landscape.

A renewable energy company is seeking planning permission for the machines – measuring 150m high – across two sites either side of the Cork and Waterford border.

But people in the area who feel they have been ignored by the local council are determined to block the plan which they claim will blight their lives.

The Lyrenacarriga Wind Farm is proposed on 733 hectares of land 5km south-east of Tallow and 9km north-west of Youghal, Co Cork.

Part of the land is owned by the State forestry body Coillte.