A design consultant has been appointed to create two single-span footbridges on a busy inter-city route.

Dairygold in East Cork was fined €12,000 and ordered to pay legal costs after it killed 20,000 fish by accidentally letting 150 litres of toxic insecticide run into a river.

Ecologists say it could take at least three years before salmon and trout stocks return to an East Cork river after thousands of fish were killed last weekend.

Anglers have expressed fears a river’s salmon and trout stocks will be wiped out by pollution which they claim is possibly emanating from a waste treatment plant and a speciality cheese factory.

AN TAISCE has objected to plans by Coillte to build a 90-bed nursing home in a forestry in east Cork.