After witnessing the signature of the contract launching the construction of the Celtic Interconnector by the national grid operators of Ireland and France in Paris this Friday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin placed the project in the context of the European response to the war in Ukraine. “Increasing our interconnections and accelerating our rollout of renewable energy is an essential part of this response,” he said.  That’s the immediate political capital invested in the first direct connection set to enable electricity trading between Ireland and the continent. Yet the €1.6 billion infrastructure project has been nearly ten years in the making and…

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