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• Advising Transport Infrastructure Ireland on all public law, planning, environmental, railway safety, general health and safety and compulsory purchase matters associated with Dublin’s MetroLink project.
  
• Advising Uisce Éireann on the Greater Dublin Drainage Project, which comprises a new 500,000 population equivalent waste water treatment plant, pumping station, 11.7km orbital sewer, 11km outfall tunnel, and associated pumping stations.
  
• Advising Bremore Ireland Port relative to the development of a new deepwater port on the east coast of Ireland, including providing strategic advice on the necessary policy considerations that need to be in place in advance of an application for development consent being made.
  

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• Advising Corio Generation on all aspects of the development of the Sceirde Rocks 400MW offshore windfarm, one of Ireland’s first projects to be given special ‘relevant project’ status, and the only such project on the west coast of Ireland.
  
• Advising Irish Cement Limited/CRH on the successful defence of two separate judicial review proceedings before the Court of Appeal on appeal from the Commercial Court against the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to grant a revised licence to replace fossil fuel with non-fossil waste-based solid recovered fuel (SRF) at its cement factory in Limerick.
  
• Advising National Broadband Ireland on all planning and environmental matters related to the roll out of the National Broadband Plan, the single largest state infrastructure concession ever to be tendered in Ireland.
  

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• Represented An Bord Pleanála in a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to the interpretation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC.
  
• Advised the EPA in respect of the defence of an appeal against a decision of the High Court to grant an injunction restraining a large commercial peat operator from extracting peat in the absence of a licence.
  
• Advised ABP in respect of a leapfrog appeal to the Supreme Court brought by Crofton Buildings Management Company in respect of a decision of the High Court to remit a planning application to ABP.
  

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• Representing Mowi Ireland in the defence of three judicial review challenges to the grant of an aquaculture licence.
  
• Representing EcoPower in the defence of a judicial review challenge to the grant of planning permission which raises novel issues regarding the jurisdiction of the national planning body.
  
• Advising Macquarie Asset Management on planning issues connected with its acquisition of the Beacon Hospital business.
  

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• Providing all planning and environmental support to the National Transport Authority on the biggest public transport project in the history of the state, BusConnects.
  
• Supported Statkraft in its consenting strategy and planning submission to An Bord Pleanála in 2024, including the review of its EIAR and NIS, which accompanied this application.
  
• Representing a host of clients in proceedings in the specialist Planning and Environment Court within the High Court, including Cairn, Greystar, Lioncor, Statkraft, Ryanair, Aer Lingus, Breedon Cement, Bartra, Tetrarch, and Sandymark.
  

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• Advising RWE Renewables Ireland Limited on the development of the Dublin Array offshore wind project, one of the four ‘phase one’ projects that were successful in Ireland’s first offshore auction (ORESS 1).
  
• Supporting the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) in the preparation of Ireland’s first Designated Maritime Area Plan (DMAP) for the South Coast of Ireland (SC-DMAP), identifying areas for future offshore wind projects.
  
• Advising Premier Periclase Limited on a significant green transition project to transform an operational industrial facility located on a large brownfield site into a clean energy centre serving a new campus for industrial and commercial uses, requiring sustainable heat and power.
  

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• Advising Lens Media Limited in relation to its proposed development of a state-of-the-art media park on a circa 23-hectare site in Grange Castle, County Dublin.
  
• Advising EDF Renewables Ireland Limited in relation to two of its pipeline projects, the proposed circa 46 MW Seskin Wind Farm in County Carlow and the proposed circa 46MW Lackareagh Wind Farm in County Clare.
  
• Engaged (in association with BVG Associates and Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions) by Wind Energy Ireland and Green Tech Skillnet to develop an online interactive resource to guide existing and potential offshore wind farm developers through the consenting and development process for offshore wind development in Ireland.
  

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• Acting for Dublic Airport Authority (daa), as the operator of Dublin Airport, in High Court proceedings concerning claims that councillors acted unlawfully in prescribing aircraft noise mitigation measures that could cost daa some €1.8 billion.
  
• Advising a group of shareholders (Yellow River Windfarm Limited) in a Commercial Court action against SSE Renewables relating to the interpretation of an agreement and payment terms for the construction of a windfarm incorporating 29 wind turbines.
  
• Advising Kingspan in an investigatory review of compliance and governance in the UK Insulation Boards business arising from its participation as a core participant in the UK’s Grenfell Tower Inquiry and identifying recommendations for implementation.
  

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• Acting for FuturEnergy Ireland in judicial review proceedings over the refusals for Croaghaun Windfarm and Cahermurphy Two Windfarms, which were conceded by the respondent, An Bord Pleanála, and the planning applications were remitted to be reconsidered.
  
• Advising SSE on all aspects of the planning and foreshore consents, both onshore and offshore, which are required to build out the Arklow Bank Offshore Wind Farm.
  
• Lead advisor for EirGrid on its strategic infrastructure development application for the 400 kV Kildare Meath transmission upgrade project.
  

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• Advising EirGrid plc, the Irish state-owned electric power transmission operator, in relation to a proposed emergency development of additional electricity generation capacity to secure supply.
  
• Advising Fingal County Council on all planning and environmental law aspects of a major flagship development project, the proposed Swords Cultural Quarter, and acting for the Council in an oral hearing held by An Bord Pleanála in respect of a related CPO.
  
• Representing Art Data Centres Limited in the defence of a high-profile judicial review challenge to the granting of permission for the construction of a strategic data centre valued in excess of €1.2 billion.
  

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• Acting for An Bord Pleanála in the defence of judicial review proceedings.
  
• Acting for Inland Fisheries Ireland in successful High Court judicial review proceedings in which IFI challenged a decision of the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board to grant an aquaculture licence for the cultivation of Atlantic salmon.
  
• Advised Deposit Return Scheme Ireland CLG, trading as Re-Turn, in relation to the Deposit Return Scheme.
  

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• Advising MWB Two Limited on a strategic housing development (SHD) pursuant to the Planning and Development Act.
  
• Acting for Reside Capital/Hallmark Developments in a significant judicial review challenge taken against its multimillion-euro SHD by Peter Sweetman.
  
• Acted for Byrne Looby in the successful defence of a prosecution brought by Inland Fisheries Ireland arising out of a fish kill in the River Bandon in May 2017 during dredging works.