Councillors representing the southeast of Dublin city have clashed over the future of the Strand Road cycleway in Sandymount, following last Friday’s court ruling which enabled its development.
The Court of Appeal last Friday overturned a High Court judgment that had blocked the implementation of the six-month trial of the path on the coastal road. The High Court had ruled in 2021, in a case taken by Independent councillor Mannix Flynn and Peter Carvill of the Serpentine Avenue, Tritonville and Claremont Roads group, that the council should have obtained planning permission to run the trial.
The Court of Appeal determined this was an error and the council could have implemented the…