The death toll from a collapse at a landfill outside Ethiopia's capital has risen sharply to 113, an Addis Ababa city official said.

After a controversial landfill closed last year, residents of a Co Limerick village thought their lives would improve, but council plans to lease the site for a gasification plant has locals vowing to fight against the ‘environmental horror’, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe.

More than 500 complaints were made about foul smells from dumps and waste plants in 2013, watchdogs have revealed.