Just a quick update on that situation regarding the appeal to An Bord Pleanala against approval of the Limerick hospital co-location project. Remember now, the appellant was told this week that his (he was representing a larger group of people) appeal was invalidated for the most frivolous of reasons. Well, it seems that the Bord may not have been completely accurate in leading the appellant to believe this was the case.

After some confusing exchanges in recent days between the Bord and the appellant, during which time there were hints that the appellant’s submission may have been accepted without proper authorization by someone on the Bord’s security staff (except this wouldn’t explain how the appellant’s application fee had been drawn from his bank account) and so on, it turns out that the submission may have arrived in the usual way and then misfiled.

Hopefully, this will eventually mean that an Bord now considers the appeal valid and that any fears some of us may have had that someone was hoping an inconvenient appeal could be pushed to one side are without grounds.

Seems to me that the Bord needs a little bit of a shake up. Can’t believe this isn’t front page.