Landfill on rural site ‘has ruined community’

TEARS were shed yesterday as members of a small community told how a landfill site has devastated their lives.

Limerick County Council now wants to quadruple the landfill in size. An elderly man broke down as he addressed a Bord Pleanála hearing in Limerick into the proposal.

The council wants to develop a super dump covering 98 acres alongside the existing 25-acre landfill at Gortadroma in West Limerick.