The trial had heard that engineers and other experts are used to engaging with nearby residents and others and there are “usually many solutions available”, short of shutting down wind turbines, he noted.

A PUBLIC meeting is taking place this Thursday night 17 April in Ballinakill to discuss plans for the construction of a 12 turbine windfarm which is planned for areas in south Kilkenny close to Laois border.

The project involves landfall works at Killard on the Clare coast that lie close to US President elect Donald Trump’s golf resort at Doonbeg.

The cases are the first private nuisance claim from wind turbine noise to run in either Ireland or the UK