#IEKnotweed: How has Japanese knotweed affected you?

Japanese knotweed is an invasive plant and it has slowly but surely been invading Ireland.

It is one of the fastest-growing and most destructive plants in the country, becoming a problem not just on roadways and green spaces but in private homes and walls, meaning planning permission could soon be refused for houses and other buildings in areas infested by Japanese knotweed.

It is such a problem that it is an offence to plant, disperse, allow dispersal or cause the spread of Japanese knotweed and is already a major problem in places like Skibbereen, Co Cork.