The South Kerry Greenway was a thought as far back as 2004. 

A very expensive feasibility study was carried out in 2011 at huge expense to the taxpayer and issued to landowners, telling landowners, that lands would not be CPO'd.  It would only be achieved by engagement and agreement with landowners.  LANDOWNERS STILL AWAIT LAWFUL ENGAGEMENT AND PAYMENT in 2025.

While works went on behind closed doors in the acquiring authorities offices, the only information the landowners were given was when it became public knowledge at the public consultation stage.  Hardly fair, transparent or just and most definitely not inclusive.

Since the CPO has been approved the acquiring authority have abused power and position for their end gain and most definitely not for the common good of ALL.

The landowners have always been clear in their positions, Yes to the Greenway, No to CPO.   

Common good isn't just about the majority or a select group; it aims to benefit everyone in society.  It emphasizes that individual well being is linked to the well being of the community.  Fair laws, equal opportunities and protection from discrimination are crucial for the common good.  

Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people.

The one stakeholder that should have been included, engaged with lawfully, accommodated and paid in the South Kerry Greenway is the landowner.  Many have yet to be paid.  Many have been ignored, belittled, threatened and left in a far worse position after the CPO than before the CPO.  Yet the project takes priority over safeguarding landowners rights, animal rights, environmental rights or child welfare rights.  The public perception has been one that is severely misleading by misinformation the acquiring authority has put into the public domain that landowners are being treated fairly and engaged with.  

Nothing could be further from the truth.  In fact the acquiring authority has put into writing that they have neither the competence or expertise to deal with accommodation works or compensation matters.   The acquiring authority also put in writing that they will not engage, will not provide landowners with construction drawings (as they do not exist) and the acquiring authority have failed to provide accurate accommodation works drawings, in fact they have altered and removed dates that were issued on accommodation work drawings to cover up their deception.  The acquiring authority have even refused to provide land agreements where actual terms were agreed, there by completely disabling the rights of the landowners to be able to sell their land for the greenway.  

The acquiring authority are riding roughshod over landowners rights without basic information provided and are certainly unaware of how professional engagement should occur.

The Construction work has caused irreversible damage to our historical and architectural features, dug up protected flora and fauna, while introducing invasive species and dangerous plants to animal life, but now the acquiring authority is placing human life at significant risk of harm.

The acquiring authority have chosen to bring themselves into disrepute by means of unjust attack and social injustice, discrimination and the wilful disabling of landowners rights for their end gain and most definitely not for the common good of all. 

The impact of their deliberate assault on landowners rights is now causing significant harm to landowners, children, vulnerable adults, family life, and even laying claim on innocent landowners homes, services and farm shelters, that are not part of the South Kerry Greenway CPO.  The acquiring authority has resiled from written terms agreed with landowners and forced landowners to court to remove their rights to access farm buildings or even to cross from one side of a field to the other now severed forever with zero payment in sight.

The South Kerry Greenway will forever be remembered in the history books as the project that divided our communities, stole our land rather than to pay the rightful market value, and did not once adhere to international or national code of best practice, and has ignored humanitarian, disability, property or social justice laws.

If you do not want to be affected by this on your land, please sign this petition to call on the Irish Government to reinstate our lawful rights that local government have taken from us and prohibit CPO's for all recreational infrastructure. LANDOWNERS STAND TOGETHER