Mother tells of plant disaster fear

A MOTHER spoke yesterday of how she feared a disaster at a proposed controversial toxic incinerator plant.

Mary Murphy from Monkstown, Co Cork, said residents in Cork Harbour retain vivid memories of the Hickson's plant explosion 10 years ago.

"Building a toxic incinerator in a cul-de-sac where there's no evacuation or emergency plans for local residents is foolhardy," she told a Bord Pleanála oral hearing. "The panic and mayhem that followed at Hickson's would make a disturbing movie.