Board throws out super dump plan

PROPOSALS to build a €14 million super dump which would have taken 1.5 million tonnes of waste have been turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

Residents living near the site on the Cork-Limerick border have been celebrating news that a private refuse disposal company, Celtic Waste, has been refused permission by an Bord Pleanála for the landfill which was set to have a lifetime of 10 years.

Last January, Cork County Council refused permission to the Dublin-based company to develop an 80-acre site at Ballyguyroe, near the north Cork village of Kildorrery. The company then appealed to An Board Pleanála.