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Dublin road stopped in its tracks again

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

The High Court recently ruled against an appeal brought by a sole plaintiff acting on behalf of various groups protesting the precise highway route, part of which runs through a property adjoining the site owned by the UK-based shelf company Jackson Way.
Jackson Way — the precise ownership of which has not been firmly established for the public record — is being investigated by the Flood/Mahon Tribunal, the legal body charged with probing planning corruption.
Preservationists want the highway route to be diverted away from the castle site and, as a consequence, around the Jackson Way property. That would result in the owners of the property failing to secure millions of euro in compulsory-purchase compensation.
The High Court had ruled against plaintiff Michael Mulcreevy and awarded

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