THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has been criticised for agreeing reluctantly to a “fleeting” appearance before an oral hearing into plans for a €226 million container terminal in Cork Harbour.

ENOUGH is enough, residents fighting plans for a €226 million container port in Cork harbour said yesterday.

THE livelihoods of inshore fishermen will be wiped out if the Port of Cork builds a €226 million container terminal in the lower harbour, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

THE livelihoods of inshore fishermen will be wiped out if the Port of Cork builds a €226 million container terminal in the lower harbour, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

THE Port of Cork yesterday rubbished a rival port’s objection to its plans to build a €226 million container and cargo terminal at Ringaskiddy in Co Cork.

HARBOUR residents are facing huge legal bills in a David versus Goliath planning battle with the port of Cork.

STATISTICS, and widely differing ones at that, were thrown around like confetti yesterday as opposing sides at a hearing on a controversial superdump tried to gain the upper hand.

Opposition to the landfill cites local wildlife, and risk of water contamination Seán O’Riordan.

MUNSTER is facing a waste crisis because its local authorities won’t be capable of disposing of all non-recyclables in the next few years, it was claimed yesterday.