Bottlehill battle still goes on after the war is lost

THEY may have lost the battle against the creation of a €56 million superdump, but people living in a small rural community in Cork are determined they will have their say on a new monitoring committee set up to ensure it’s run to the highest possible standards.

After a five-and-a-half year campaign, residents of Bottlehill have had to accept the inevitable.

They are not naive. Despite dogged determination they know they probably lost the war because they were earmarked as one of three possible sites the others being Grenagh and Watergrasshill, both of which had bigger populations and thus generated far more vocal opposition.