Last month, the ESB made the decision to decommission its 70-turbine wind farm at Derrybrien in south Co. Galway. This follows An Bord Pleanála’s refusal of ESB’s application for substitute consent for the renewable energy development.Constructed in 2003, a peat slide occurred at Derrybrien in October of that year. The slide resulted in [...]
Last month, MKO Ornithology and Ecology teams came together for a morning’s bird ringing in Galway. Bird ringing in Ireland is conducted under the British Trust of Ornithology bird ringing scheme (https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing). Birds are captured using specialised nets and a small ring with a unique serial number is placed on the leg before [...]
Launch of the Town Centre First Policy The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has now launched the Town Centre First – a major new policy that aims to tackle vacancy, combat dereliction and breathe new life into our town centres. Town Centre First contains 33 unique actions which will give our [...]
The fifth Irish national hen harrier survey will run this breeding season between late March and August. The aim of the surveys are to quantify the size and distribution of the breeding population and assess changes since the previous national surveys completed in 1998-2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015. This survey will be coordinated [...]
Due to increased expansion, MKO are advertising the following vacancies. Potential candidates will join a company of over 110 staff who are involved in the most interesting projects of our time. The roles offer exciting opportunities for an ambitious professional to be part of one of Ireland’s fastest growing consultancies working on diverse [...]
MKO is seeking to recruit a full-time CAD Specialist to join our expanding CAD and Graphics team. The successful candidate will produce CAD designs suitable for the planning system across a broad range of large-scale infrastructure developments. MKO are particularly interested in candidates with experience using Civil 3D software. Although the primary focus [...]
MKO is seeking to recruit an experienced Senior Planner to join its Planning team and meet the increasing demand for the company’s services. The successful candidate will be working on projects in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors, and it is essential that prospective candidates have relevant and recent experience in these sectors. [...]
MKO is seeking to recruit Ornithologists, to work at locations across Ireland. The successful candidates will be responsible for providing ornithological services at sites of proposed and existing large scale infrastructure projects, primarily in the wind energy sector. Surveys to be undertaken include vantage point surveys, adapted Brown and Shepherd surveys, breeding raptor [...]
The Creggs Village Plan was launched on the 17th of February at Creggs National School. The launch has been hailed as “a night of celebration” by chairperson of Creggs Rural Development company, Sean Beirne. The Plan was officially launched by Peter Keaveney, Cathaoirleach of Galway County Council. The Plan represents the culmination of [...]
Draft Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 Galway City Council has prepared a Draft Galway City Development Plan for the period 2023-2029. The Draft Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 sets out Galway City Council’s policies and objectives to guide the sustainable development of the City over the lifetime of the Plan to 2029. It [...]
