Fermoy Weir is washing away. This is an environmental calamity for migrating salmon, and threatens an amenity beloved by locals and essential to the town’s clubs, says Donal O’Keeffe

Cork County Council is to carry out an economic impact study in an effort to persuade government departments of the value of replacing a collapsing weir on the River Blackwater in Co Cork.

A 200-year-old weir in Co Cork is in danger of disintegrating and washing away after years of neglect by the local authority and Government departments, according to local campaigners.