{"id":287193,"date":"2026-01-16T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/287193\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:56:11","slug":"over-100-turn-out-to-latest-oublic-meeting-on-south-kilkenny-windfarm-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/287193\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 turn out to latest oublic meeting on South Kilkenny windfarm proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of villages in South KIlkenny opposed to a proposed windfram in the area say they wont be sitting back.<\/p>\n<p>An Bord Pleanala is now reviewing an application by Manogate Ltd. to put up 10 wind turbines on a site in Ballyfacey, between the existing windfarms at Ballymartin and Rahora.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned locals have been active in their campaign against the turbines with over 100 attending the latest public meeting in Glenmore Community Centre last evening organised by the No2Ballyfasy windfarm group.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Jenny Catt Slattery outlined to KCLR news what happened at the meeting: \u201cIt was about a bit of fundraising, what they\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re also there and they\u2019re having clinics to help people fill in their submissions and how to do it and they\u2019re going to be in Glenmore and in Mullnavat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have different dates online there and you can contact any of them and they\u2019ll tell you and they\u2019re going to help people if they\u2019re not sure how to do it and really just informing people of where they\u2019re going, where the turbines are going to be, where the boroughs are going to be for them and then how they\u2019re getting there, which is through Ballynooney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of villages in South KIlkenny opposed to a proposed windfram in the area say they wont be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[143851,143852,18,440,19,17,133,63558],"class_list":{"0":"post-287193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ballyfasy","9":"tag-councillor-jenny-catt-slattery","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-windfarm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115903711515147435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}