connemara is a wild open area wilth untoched viewes of mountains rivers and lakes we do not want this sarcafised in the name of so called cheap energy,

I lived in this area and planned on returning when I retired. This plan is now destroyed as the beautiful peaceful environment is now destroyed by huge noisy flickering industrial wind turbines. Why is this Government and Galway County Council trying to destroy our local environment forever. This is treacherous and should be stopped immediately.

I'm fed up with sick minded, profit addicted investors who manipulate people, giving them false or incomplete information just for their own benefit while destroying nature and harming people's health. If you do study independent researches on wind energy you will find out that it's not an alternative form of energy - it's a money machine. In Germany the results already show that wind energy is inefficient. Coal and gas power stations have to be used to bridge over when the wind level is too low for the wind turbines to produce enough power. Protect Ireland and especially Connemara from this madness !

Our family home in West Clare (Ireland) is surrounded on three sides by sites on which planning permission has been granted for 33 turbines 146m high. We feel your pain.

I know this and many other beautiful, wild areas of Connemara well. I am appalled that anyone with a milligram of respect for the ever-diminishing unspoiled areas of my country would contemplate such desecration. Clearly these people have none.

Employ a good planner and defend your rights. We recently appealed successfully against 10 turbines of height 170 metres in Cloghan Offaly. Ref no 242354 on the Bord Pleanala website.

Too close to beautiful unspoilt coastline, and damaging to marine life

Wind turbines destroy the environment, hike up energy costs and are useless at reducing carbon since they produce so much of it in their production. Their only shameful function is to make investors richer and allow for carbon trading.