The company proposing to put a high-voltage electricity line through a 40km stretch of West Cork, and objectors to the development, dug in their heels at a planning hearing, yesterday.

HUNDREDS of residents opposed to plans for a waste incinerator at Poolbeg are expected to show up at an oral hearing into the controversial project today.

OUTRAGED community groups will seek an oral hearing into yesterday’s decision by the Environment Protection Agency to grant a draft licence to Indaver (Ireland) for waste incineration plants in Cork and Meath.