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Conservationists are urging the European Commission to withhold funding
for a visitor centre on The Burren in County Clare. The Commission is due
to decide whether to give Ireland 13 million from in regional development
funds to finance the centre.

The Burren is Europe’s largest area of limestone pavement and botanically
of international significance. The Irish Government is planning the centre
at Mullaghmore, regarded as one of the most sensitive parts of the Burren.

The World Wide Fund for Nature has already held up the scheme by persuading
the Commission to insist that the government carry out an environmental
assessment of the visitor’s centre before funds were released. WWF then
commissioned a review of the assessment, which concludes that it is ‘woefully
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