Site next to toxic works is safe, insists Navy

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.

The Ispat/Irish Steel plant on Haulbowline Island in Cork closed in controversial circumstances in 2001.

Last year a consultant’s report said it could cost up to €30 million to clean up the site and an 80,000-tonne slag heap containing toxic metals and materials.