In June this year, the High Court ordered the total shutdown of three wind turbines in Co Wexford because a house just over a kilometre away was subject to “serious” noise that made the shutdown “fair, just, and appropriate”.  On Thursday, the High Court delivered a very different verdict on noise in relation to another wind farm. Writing that, at 886 meters away, the nearest turbine was “equivalent to the distance as the crow flies between Chancery Place and the GPO”, in Dublin, Justice Richard Humphreys said: “At such a distance, the noise of a turbine in terms of volume…

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