CORK county manager Martin Riordan has told a high-powered committee dealing with the future of a toxic dump that it must finalise its work as soon as possible so remediation can take place on the site.

TIDE movement on Cork harbour would mean that any potential chemical waste from the former Irish Steel plant is effectively swirled around the harbour.

Eoin English

WORKERS at a new storage facility for the Navy next to a former steelworks face no risk from toxic materials at the latter site, the service insisted yesterday.

BUSINESS leaders in Arklow and Cobh are bracing themselves for further job losses as the knock-on effects of the closure of the towns’ IFI plants begin to be felt.

A last-ditch effort to save the Irish Ispat steel plant in Co Cork is to resume today.

The junior Minister for Labour has reiterated that the Government is still hopeful that the 400 jobs at Ispat steel plant in Cork may be saved.