FP Logue LLP
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Environment, Planning and Information Law, Ireland and EU
Environmental groups take challenge to legal costs caps in successful cases New costs rules breach Irish and EU law, @antaisce.bsky.social and Friends of the Irish Environment say @fploguellp.bsky.social acting for the applicants www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Environmental groups take challenge to legal costs caps in successful cases
New costs rules breach Irish and EU law, An Taisce, Friends of Irish Environment say
irishtimes.com
A couple of milestones were reached today for team members, Eoin Heaney and Dearbhail Devally. Read more about our news on LinkedIn ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/fplogu...
It gives me great pleasure to announce a couple of important milestones in our firm today. 1️⃣ Our very first trainee, Eoin Heaney, recently completed his traineeship and was accepted on the roll of…...
It gives me great pleasure to announce a couple of important milestones in our firm today. 1️⃣ Our very first trainee, Eoin Heaney, recently completed his traineeship and was accepted on the roll of ...
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A couple of milestones were reached today for team members, Eoin Heaney and Dearbhail Devally. Read more about our news on LinkedIn ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/fplogu...
It gives me great pleasure to announce a couple of important milestones in our firm today. 1️⃣ Our very first trainee, Eoin Heaney, recently completed his traineeship and was accepted on the roll of…...
It gives me great pleasure to announce a couple of important milestones in our firm today. 1️⃣ Our very first trainee, Eoin Heaney, recently completed his traineeship and was accepted on the roll of ...
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FP Logue consultant @tjmcintyre.com authors important case digest on cross-border "legitimate interest" cases handled by the European Data Protection Board www.linkedin.com/posts/fplogu...
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has recently published a report by our consultant solicitor TJ McIntyre on the concept of legitimate interest under the GDPR. EDPB commissioned the report… ...
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has recently published a report by our consultant solicitor TJ McIntyre on the concept of legitimate interest under the GDPR. EDPB commissioned the report t...
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My article in the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association magazine explaining why we are missing a golden opportunity to make Ireland the jurisdiction of choice for EU environmental litigation www.linkedin.com/posts/fplogu...
Dilettante solicitor @fplogue.bsky.social joined me on the tortoise shack to talk access to justice, planning reforms, public consultation and his lifelong dream of becoming a vegas cabaret singer. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Access to Justice – Planning to Fail
Podcast Episode · The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack · 1 April · 1 sec
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@antaisce.bsky.social asks the @ec.europa.eu to reconsider its decision to extend the Irish derogation from the Nitrates Directive manure spreading limit for a further three years www.antaisce.org/news/water-q...
Water Quality continues to decline: An Taisce asks European Commission to review Ireland's newest derogation
An Taisce has asked the European Commission to reconsider its decision to grant Ireland permission to spread manure at rates above the limits imposed by EU law aimed at preventing water pollution for ...
antaisce.org
Environmental groups launch High Court challenge against energy regulator over data centres - The CRU’s policy on new data centres will allow them to use fossil fuels as an energy source. www.thejournal.ie/data-centres...
Environmental groups launch High Court challenge against energy regulator over data centres
The CRU’s policy on new data centres will allow them to use fossil fuels as an energy source.
thejournal.ie
2025 saw a significant drop in environmental litigation in Ireland, read the🧵for the highlights or this handy infograhpic
If you want to know what this is really about (hint: not about looking after trees, definitely not) then read my thread bsky.app/profile/fplo...
Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment@deptcee.bsky.social · 7mo ago📢 Public Consultation on a proposed Scale of Fees for certain environmental judicial reviews. Submission close on 15 January 2026 💬 Have your say and share your views here: https://bit.ly/4p7mCNA
What's at risk and fact check on #JR with Fred Logue of @fploguellp.bsky.social www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
Fred Logue: Judicial reviews are not the enemy of progress — they are a vital safeguard
Judicial review is a way for ordinary people to ensure that laws protecting their homes, communities and the environment are enforced.
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Over the 19 years Ireland has had a derogation from the nitrates directive we have backed ourselves in to a corner. Which now leaves us having productive and economically viable farms or cleaner rivers and lakes, but not both. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Nitrates derogation
Back in the early nineties all across the EU a rule was introduced to protect rivers and streams from agricultural run off. At the last count 7,000 out of 137,000 farms in Ireland had received a derog...
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The current quality of Cork city's drinking water is a "potentially serious public health concern", according to a legal submission made by prominent public health specialist, Professor Gabriel Scally. www.rte.ie/news/munster...
Expert raises public health concerns about Cork water quality
The current quality of Cork city's drinking water is a "potentially serious public health concern", according to a legal submission made by a prominent public health specialist
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Councillors win key High Court concession against government plan for smaller apartment sizes www.thejournal.ie/apartments-c...
Councillors win key High Court concession against government plan for smaller apartment sizes
Under the Housing Minister’s plans, some of the biggest cost savings for each apartment will be found by cutting down on floor space.
thejournal.ie
Important decision of the Commissioner for Environmental Information - information on compliance of an individual farm with agricultural schemes is accessible under #AIE www.ocei.ie/en/ombudsman...
Misleading headline, this site has a very long backstory #Planning
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 9mo agoBrent geese put paid to 580 Dublin apartments
Laois group takes Coillte windfarm plan to European Court again People Over Wind (POW) from Cullenagh south of Portlaoise, say they are "challenging secrecy over state wind farm plans in Laois". www.ireland-live.ie/news/laois-l...
Laois group takes Coillte windfarm plan to European Court again
People Over Wind fighting plan for hilltop turbines for over a decade
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Fred @fplogue.bsky.social is speaking at this event on Thursday - registration below👇
Lynn Boylan MEP@lnbdublin.bsky.social · 9mo agoJoin me for my Trade event in the EPLO Dublin office on Balfe street, 6th November at 2:30pm where our expert panel will talk about key issues in trade and how we can work together to fight for better, fairer trade deals. Register for the event at www.eventbrite.ie/e/never-wast...
Judge orders operator of unauthorised Carlow quarry to restore lands to prior condition Unauthorised quarrying activity carried out on the lands since 2023, court hears www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Judge orders operator of unauthorised Carlow quarry to restore lands to prior condition
Unauthorised quarrying activity carried out on the lands since 2023, court hears
irishtimes.com
We made a little bit of history this week when we participated in the first officially recorded Supreme Court hearing, where we acted for the Appellant in Protect East Meath v Meath County Council @eastmeath.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JulV...
Protect East Meath Limited v Meath County Council – 14 October 2025 (Afternoon session)
YouTube video by Supreme Court Broadcasting Ireland
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New apartment planning standards to be challenged in High Court Early date for action aimed at quashing Minister’s new guidelines for developments www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
New apartment planning standards to be challenged in High Court
Early date for action aimed at quashing Minister’s new guidelines for developments
irishtimes.com
'Novel' court action launched against EPA permit for data centre group's power plant Campaigners claim that the EPA is failing to meet Ireland’s climate obligations in its licensing of power for the data centre. www.thejournal.ie/data-centres...
'Novel' court action launched against EPA permit for data centre group's power plant
Campaigners claim that the EPA is failing to meet Ireland’s climate obligations in its licensing of power for the data centre.
thejournal.ie
EU Commission sued over lack of environmental transparency - @fploguellp.bsky.social acting for @clientearth.bsky.social in this case before the General Court euobserver.com/rule-of-law/...
EU Commission sued over lack of environmental transparency
According to NGO ClientEarth, the EU Commission is illegally holding back information which should be public on health and the environment — and they are suing at the European General Court in Luxembo...
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An agreement by @irishwater.bsky.social to connect a new Supermac’s motorway plaza to the water network in Ennis, Co Clare is heading for the courts, in what’s believed to be one of the first such challenges of its kind. www.thejournal.ie/supermacs-en...
Court action brought against Uisce Éireann plan to connect 'overloaded' water plant to Supermac's plaza
Were it to succeed, it could plunge developments across the country into doubt unless major improvements are made to Ireland’s sewerage infrastructure.
thejournal.ie
Check out my latest article Scope of Birds Directive clarified by the Court of Justice www.linkedin.com/pulse/scope-...
Scope of Birds Directive clarified by the Court of Justice
Just before shutting up shop for its summer recess, the Court of Justice delivered an important judgment clarifying the scope of protection for wild bird species in the EU under the Birds Directive (D...
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The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Court of Appeal extending time to seek leave to judicially review a decision of An Bord Pleanála which granted permission to Eircom for the installation of a telecommunications mast in Co Kilkenny.
Supreme Court: Extension of time upheld for judicial review involving allegations of systemic bias on part of An Bord Pleanála
The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Court of Appeal extending time to seek leave to judicially review a decision of An Bord Pleanála which granted permission to Eircom for the installation of a telecommunications mast in Co Kilkenny.
irishlegal.com
A Co Kilkenny couple has won a landmark decision in the Supreme Court ensuring they can challenge an An Bord Pleanála decision to allow a mobile phone mast to be built beside their property. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
Supreme Court upholds Kilkenny couple's objection to construction of mobile phone mast
Former board deputy chairman Paul Hyde had approved 15m tall mast in 2021
irishexaminer.com
Big decision from the Supreme Court (Woulfe J) today in Thomson v An Bord Pleanála concerning when a court can extend the time limit to bring judicial review and the interpretation of "good and sufficient reason". @fploguellp.bsky.social for the Appellants courts.ie/view/judgmen...
