A golf club has been ordered by a court to cease course development work because of an alleged threat to sand dunes along Sheephaven Bay, Co Donegal. Mr Justice Smith, at a special sitting of the High Court in his home yesterday, granted the Minister for Heritage and the Islands an interim injunction restraining Mr Frank Casey and Rosapenna Golf Hotel Ltd from continuing with the work.
Mr Eanna Mulloy, counsel for the Minister, told the court the proceedings concerned a proposed special conservation area at Rosapenna, near Carrickart, and just north of Creeslough, which contained large areas of prime sand dunes dominated by marram and red fescue grasses and herbs and clovers.