Planning permission is to be sought shortly for a windfarm at the site of a mothballed superdump, which cost €48m to develop.

Irish placenames bring you on a journey trying to get to the bottom of them. Or just glory in the sheer madness of them, writes Colm O'Regan

Paul Buckley won the feature Carbery-South West festival score in the last shot from Michael Bohane at Ballygurteen on Monday.

Team Éamon Bowen (Éamon Bowen, Declan O’Leary, Pat O’Donovan) got the perfect start to 2019 when they beat Team Craig Moynihan (Craig Moynihan, Maurice Connolly, Darren Bowen) in the John O’Donovan Cup final at Bottlehill.

Cork county councillors want to use the country’s largest, but unused, landfill site to dispose of Japanese knotweed, and say the move might make it cheaper to build new homes.

A Canadian company wants to build a windfarm at the country’s largest landfill site, which was ‘mothballed’ some years ago, having cost €48m to develop.

Team Éamon Bowen (Éamon Bowen, Michael Barry and Denis Murphy) won the first big prize of 2018 when they beat Team Joseph Murphy (Joseph Murphy, Denis Connolly, Celly Spillane) in the John O’Donovan Cup final at Bottlehill on New Year’s Day.

Michael Harrington beat Seán Murphy by two bowls at Shannonvale to advance to the Munster Intermediate quarter-final.

Nicholas Carey secured the first win of the 2017 Munster Intermediate championship after a strong finish against PJ Cooney at Ballincurrig.

Council may give lease to firm operating proposed incinerator

Residents of Cork’s lower harbour have “no faith” in Indaver to ensure a proposed incinerator would be safe in the event of an explosion or fire.

The boss of Indaver Ireland has reiterated that the site selected for a proposed incinerator in Cork Harbour has always been the best one — and its suitability has only increased.

Tears and accusations of insanity gave an emotional edge to some of the many presentations on day nine of the oral hearing into proposals by Indaver Ireland to build an incinerator on the Ringaskiddy peninsula.

I refer to your article about Indaver in talks to bury 40,000t of ash at Bottlehill, North of Cork, in April 14th’s Irish Examiner.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Residents of a Co Cork village are shocked at revelations that 40,000 tonnes of incinerator ash could be buried every year at an unused landfill on their doorstep.

Waste management company Indaver is in talks with Cork County Council to bury, in a mothballed landfill site, up to 40,000 tonnes of ash yearly from a proposed €160m controversial incinerator project in Ringaskiddy.

John Creedon beat Brian Wilmot in the last shot in the Paddy Barry Cup at Rosscarbery.

Tenders will be sought for the future use of a now-mothballed €48 million super dump in Co Cork.

Tony O’Sullivan led all the way against Declan O’Donovan in the Carbery Junior A final at the Marsh Road.

Gary Daly and Séamus Sexton secured places in the Munster senior championship quarter-final draw at the weekend and Éamon Bowen Jnr revived his hopes with a brilliant show against James Buckley, writes Séamus Ó Tuama.

Waste firm Country Clean has outlined plans to develop an airtight storage facility at its contentious waste depot on the northside of Cork City.

Cork County Council is to proceed with a land sale despite criticism from some councillors the deal is a waste of taxpayers’ money.

Residents have described the €12,000 fine imposed on a waste firm for multiple breaches of the waste licence at its Cork City depot as nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

Road Bowling

Christy Mullins had a decisive win over James O’Donovan at Shannonvale.

Millions of euro worth of land which Cork County Council was “forced to buy” remains idle, or is being let out to farmers from grazing livestock.

Waste companies show interest in €48m mothballed Bottlehill site

Pressure is mounting on a waste firm after Cork City Council voted last night to support the relocation of the firm’s 100,000-tonne waste facility to a non-residential area.

Campaigners fighting against a controversial 100,000-tonne waste depot on Cork’s northside yesterday brought their protest to City Hall.

A protest has been taking place at a waste transfer facility in Co Cork this morning.

The environment minister has been asked to intervene in a row over the operation of a controversial waste depot in a suburb on Cork’s northside.

Firemen responded to a very special call-out at the weekend to help a colleague whose son has a chronic kidney disease.

Residents campaigning against a waste depot got fresh hope last night following confirmation that the authorities are considering new ways of using a mothballed €50m super-dump.

A waste firm boss has agreed to fast-track improvements at a contentious city waste depot, which is being closely monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after breaches of its waste licence.

Residents who blockaded one of Cork city’s largest waste depots plan to ramp up their campaign to get it closed.

A community has threatened to bring Cork city’s bin collection system to a halt in a row over the management of a large waste depot.

Bowling fans throughout the country are mourning the loss of Willie Carroll, the doyen of Connacht bowling, who died at the weekend.

PJ Cooney and Davey Fitzgerald had good wins in the Munster intermediate championship during a weekend packed with championship scores in all grades.

A mothballed €48m superdump in Co Cork may become a renewable energy eco-park with wind turbines and food digesters that will generate power for the national grid.

Aidan Murphy launched the Mother Hegarty Cup at Lyre with a convincing two bowls of odds win over Gary Daly on Sunday.

Two brilliant bowls from Corcoran’s bridge to the cottage secured Killian Kingston’s win over Gavin Twohig at Pouladuff on Sunday.

Fears are growing of a shortage of landfill space in the south-west next year unless Cork County Council opens its Bottlehill facility.

Household waste from Cork city and county is being shipped out of Cork Port for incineration in the Netherlands and Sweden, where its used to generate electricity.

Senior officials in Cork County Council remain confident a mothballed €50m superdump will eventually open.