HEALTH experts last night rejected claims from people living in Co Limerick who believe industrial pollution is causing cancer.

THE Department of Agriculture has been criticised for calling in the gardaí to help them move a dead animal hit with a mysterious cancer at a farm in Askeaton, Co Limerick, where more than 800 animals have died inexplicably in the area in the last decade.

EUROPE’S largest aluminium plant must follow proposed new environmental rules, a farmers’ group warned yesterday.

THERE were 55 deaths from cancer - three times the national average - in a small area of Co Limerick where residents claim industrial pollution has harmed public health.

A STATE review of claims that cancer rates are three times higher than normal in west Limerick still hasn't produced findings one year after it was established.

FARMERS in an area of West Limerick plagued by health scares are angry they have been refused a breakdown of the €5.32 million spent on an enquiry into the problem.

CONCERNED residents in an area in Limerick plagued by unexplained environmental problems and ill health want the State to examine a similar phenomenon in Australia.