On Monday, EirGrid was granted a temporary injunction against fishers in Dublin Bay, preventing them from leaving fishing gear in the area of the bay where the grid operator is surveying for a marine electrical cable.  Justice Richard Humphreys had restrained the fishers from interfering with the survey work and ordered one of them, Eric O’Reilly, to remove obstructions in the bay. At a sitting on Thursday, presided over by Justice David Holland, the court had a chance to hear from the defendants themselves; they were three named fishermen and anonymous “persons unknown”. “Ultimately, there’s going to be a trial,”…

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