The most recent in a series of blockades in a Co Waterford fishing village yesterday evening prevented motorists from embarking and disembarking from a ferry.
Residents in Passage East say the presence of the car ferry in the village is "greatly reducing" the quality of life there. Approximately 25 to 30 people took part in yesterday's protest, the first held since August against the Passage East Car Ferry Company in the village.
The total funding required for a one-mile access road was still not in place, it emerged.
Waterford county councillor John Carey, a Passage East resident, said seven demands made by protesters had not been met. He called on FBD Insurance, majority stakeholders in the ferry company, to provide some funding towards the access road to a proposed ferry terminal, as identified by a €110,000 Department of the Environment feasibility study in 2005.
A spokesman for Waterford County Council in August said the road would be produced far more quickly if funding was provided privately as well as publicly.
Mr Carey said yesterday: "It is a private road leading to a private ferry terminal, so for them to say it's a public road is wrong."
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