The company planning to build a 240,000-tonne capacity incinerator in Cork Harbour has grossly underestimated the risk zone around its chimney stack, local campaigners have claimed.

Waste treatment at the Poolbeg incinerator in Dublin has been suspended after an uncontrolled discharge occurred there on Wednesday night that saw 11 people hospitalised.

Work is due to start shortly on clearing gantry cranes and other scrap metal from a toxic dump in Cork harbour, as a prelude to making the site safe and transforming it into a public park with playing pitches.

An auctioneering firm has been found guilty of an offence under the Litter Pollution Act for having a poster at a crossroads.

Why some of the data included as part of Indaver Ireland’s application to build an incinerator in Ringaskiddy appears identical to a 2008 application by another company for an entirely different facility in Co Meath remained a mystery yesterday on the final day of an oral hearing into the proposed project.

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.

Cork could become the waste processing capital of the world if a proposed incinerator for the harbour area was to become a reality, according to academics from University College Cork.

Babies in buggies, grannies in geansais emblazoned with the slogan ‘No to toxic waste incineration’, hazmat suits, and lots of surgical masks — the carpark of the Carrigaline Court Hotel resembled a bizarre mix of playground fare and the post-apocalyptic as hundreds of people protested against plans to build an incinerator locally.

An Bord Pleanála has refused to defer an oral hearing into proposals to build a €160m incinerator in Cork’s lower harbour.

A memorial consisting of three standing stones will honour West Cork men who lost their lives in service during the First World War.

There is an air of inevitability hanging over the make-up of the next government.

Indaver, which was previously refused planning permission for an incinerator in Cork Harbour, is to lodge another application next week for a €160m incinerator in Ringaskiddy.

Simon Coveney, the agriculture, food, and marine minister, is to seek Cabinet approval within weeks for a significant increase in funding for the remediation of Haulbowline Island and its toxic waste dump sites in Cork Harbour.

A commemoration group is attempting to track relatives of a number of passengers aboard the torpedoed cruise liner Lusitania, almost 100 years ago.

It was great to read a good-news story about the development of the Lower Cork Harbour in your article (Irish Examiner, March 12).

A leading environmental campaigner has given her seal of approval to a plan to make safe a toxic dump in Cork harbour and transform it ito a public park.

An innocent passerby was bitten on the thigh by a German shepherd that has “a fear of women”.

A woman charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a woman killed in a car crash on her way to a funeral, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of careless driving.

Waste management firm Indaver has dropped an appeal against costs awarded against it following a legal action in which a judge said its behaviour amounted to an abuse of process.

A waste management firm has been told to cover the costs incurred by a group opposed to its incineration plans after the High Court ruled its behaviour during a legal action amounted to abuse of process.

It was indeed encouraging in this economic climate to read a good news story about Cork Harbour (Irish Examiner, Nov 14).

Residents in Cork Harbour are facing another massive battle with Indaver after it confirmed plans last night to lodge a third planning application for a €140m incinerator in the area.

The owner of an impounded chip van got a lucky break in court yesterday when a judge cleared him of a careless driving offence.

Freddy Keron denied Sergui Ciobanu a notable three-in-a-row triumph when the Kenyan broke the course record to win yesterday’s sixth edition of the Cork City Marathon since it was revived in 2007.

The group opposed to the building of incinerators in Cork Harbour has agreed to be represented at Indaver’s High Court challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s refusal to allow the incinerators to go ahead.

THE 500,000 tonnes of toxic waste dumped in Cork harbour may never be removed from Haulbowline Island — and instead could be just taped up with an environmental seal, according to Marine Minister Simon Coveney.

WORK will commence within the next 10 days to help make safe a toxic dump in Cork harbour.

WORK will commence within the next 10 days to help make safe a toxic dump in Cork harbour.

A FULL investigation into the risk posed by the Haulbowline dump will not go ahead after chief medical officer Tony Holohan decided there were insufficient public health dangers to warrant it.

FOTA ISLAND’S Belvelly course can offer EuroPro Tour golfers a very good test when the Audi Cork Irish Masters gets underway at the resort tomorrow, says director of golf Kevin Morris.

THE 10-year battle over Ireland’s first toxic waste incinerator raises questions about the decision-making processes, a leading environmental law expert has said.

AFTER a decade-long struggle through the planning and legal system, the key figures fighting plans for the country’s first toxic waste incinerator were expecting more bad news yesterday.

IT was at the kitchen tables of family homes in Monkstown, Cobh and Ringaskiddy that the 10-year campaign to stop two incinerators being built in Cork Harbour was spearheaded.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN has been nominated by Athletics Ireland for election to the Council of the IAAF, the world governing body for athletics.

THE Government has been given three months to take action to clean up the toxic waste site in Haulbowline or be taken to court by the European Commission.

While a 1990s new-build has replaced the original dwelling by the Lee, Kitsborough has lost none of its charm, writes Tommy Barker

THE European Court of Justice has ruled that Ireland is in breach of an EU directive setting out how potentially dangerous developments are assessed for likely environmental effects before planning permission is granted.

THE HSE has requested that a baseline health study be completed around Cork Harbour before An Bord Pleanála consider sanctioning a toxic incinerator in Ringaskiddy.

A RADIO broadcaster has been acquitted of assault and criminal damage charges relating to a dispute over alleged damage to a car.

AN BORD PLEANÁLA has refused Cork harbour residents — who have spent nine years fighting against the construction of a €150 million Indaver incinerator — further time to investigate new documentation supplied by the waste management company.

SERGIU CIOBANU (Clonliffe Harriers) battled his way through incessant wind and rain to claim victory in yesterday’s Bord Gáis Energy Cork City Marathon setting a course record at 2:25.54.

COLIN MERRITT (Carraig na bhFear AC) could go one better than last year if plans for Monday’s Bord Gáis Energy Cork City Marathon materialise.

THE ESRI is wrong in its assumption that limiting incineration will affect Ireland’s ability to meet EU directives diverting waste from landfill.