Objectors have raised multiple grounds to challenge planning permission for 102 homes on the edge of the railway line into Galway City. One of them was that An Bord Pleanála “failed to make a finding as part of its environmental impact assessment as to whether the proposed development would or would not cause deliberate disturbance to bats” before granting planning permission in 2021.  In their judicial review application to the High Court, the Save Roscam Peninsula group, its directors and site neighbours Martin Fahy and Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy, and co-plaintiff Philipp Harkin claimed that this was one of many breaches of…

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