Road to nowhere gets court nod

Completion of the road, the M-50 motorway ring around Dublin, has been stalled for 18 months by protests aimed at preserving a medieval castle ruin that straddles the site of a planned rotary intersection in the South Dublin suburb of Carrickmines.
The High Court ruled last week against an appeal brought by a sole plaintiff acting on behalf of various groups protesting the motorway route, part of which runs through a property adjoining the site owned by the UK-based company Jackson Way.
Jackson Way is being investigated by the Flood/Mahon Tribunal, the legal body charged with investigating planning corruption.
The court ruled against plaintiff Michael Mulcreevey and awarded