CITY BYPASS HEARING ADJOURNED ON DAY ONE

Date Published: 13-Nov-2007

An oral hearing into the proposed Outer City Bypass due to begin today has been adjourned due an embarrassing misunderstanding over translation equipment. An Bord Pleanala called off the public hearing this morning when they realised simultaneous translation equipment to translate proceedings from English into Irish hadn't been set up. Approximately 60 members of the public, observers, politicians and solicitors gathered at the Ardilaun Hotel to voice their concerns were turned away and told to return at 10.30 tomorrow morning. But speaking after the adjournment Galway West TD Frank Fahey said the Irish language is just being used as a stalling tactic