Moves will be made in the High Court today to launch a legal challenge to a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow trials on a genetically modified (GM) potato to be carried out.
Green Party councillor Malcolm Noonan said last night that he and a number of growers and producers would be seeking court approval to take the legal case.
In July the EPA gave the farm body Teagasc the go-ahead to carry out trials on a GM potato designed to resist potato blight.
