It had no practical effect on events at sea. But for fishers competing with offshore development for access to the foreshore, Justice David Holland’s cost judgment was a vindication of their rights nevertheless. On Thursday, Holland delivered an oral judgment in a costs hearing between EirGrid and fisherman Ivan Toole’s company Golden Venture. The dispute began in April over EirGrid’s plans to survey Dublin Bay. The High Court judge made sure to emphasise that EirGrid’s plan to lay an electricity cable across Dublin Bay is vital to the national interest and fishers should not see any of his criticism of…

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