The owners of the luxury Carton House estate are fighting to overturn a criminal conviction for a breach of environmental law after damaging a protected nature area in August 2021.  Last November, Belmullet Hospitality Group Ltd was convicted at a District Court sitting in Naas on two counts in a case brought by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) for damaging part of the Rye Valley Carton Special Area of Conservation (SAC), granted full protected status in 2018. Despite pleading guilty to the two charges in this case, the company is now bringing an appeal before a sitting of…

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