Government ‘ignored EC health warnings’

THE Government is relying too much on cancer-linked chlorine to disinfect the country’s drinking water, according to the European Commission.

The commission also warned that pig farmers and construction companies are using legal loopholes to pollute without penalties.

And work on the country’s largest wind-farm at Derrybrien in Co Galway, which caused a dangerous landslide 18 months ago, has resumed without any study on its effects, it said.