Our Experience

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Our team advises on all aspects of environment and planning law projects, such as:

3 out of 4 of Ireland’s largest windfarms and over 120 windfarms nationwide

Advising Irish Cement Limited on its fossil fuel replacement project, including successfully defending two separate and parallel judicial review challenges to its EPA licence.

Analog Devices on the judicial review challenge to its €630M IPCEI (Important Projects of Common European Interest) project

Several of Ireland’s largest solar farms nationwide and the first solar portfolio financing deal

Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta on what will be Ireland’s first offshore windfarm off the West Coast

Advising on Ireland’s largest anaerobic digestion plant, and several largescale AD projects nationwide.

Ireland’s largest Flood Relief Scheme and several other flood relief schemes

Ireland’s largest €500M Poolbeg Waste-to-Energy Project

Wind Energy Ireland on planning problems and solutions

Uisce Eireann’s €4-6 billion Water Supply Project; and several other water and wastewater infrastructure projects nationwide

Dublin Airport Authority on its largest ever infrastructure application to increase passenger numbers to 40 million passengers per annum; its airport-wide Drainage project; its Customs and Border Patrol project; and its Fuel Farm facility at Dublin Airport

7 projects in the €500 million Second Level Schools and Third Level Education PPP Programmes

Diageo’s €200M carbon neutral brewery in County Kildare, the first of its kind in the country

Energia on its proposed hyperscale renewable energy powered data centre

The Greenlink HVDC Interconnector

The Kinsale Carbon Capture Storage

Kilkenny Cheese’s €200M cheese manufacturing plant in County Kilkenny (successfully defending the planning permission in the Supreme Court)

The 2x100MW Lumcloon Battery Storage Projects

Advising NBI on the roll out of the National Broadband Plan.

The State on the accelerated deployment of renewable energy projects

Intel on its $8 billion extension to its Leixlip facility (and the legal challenges in relation to its planning permissions)

Ireland’s National Forensic Mental Health Hospital

The Havfrue and Havringsten transatlantic cable projects

Strategic housing and largescale residential projects for multiple developers (including two cases referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union)

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