€75m sludge plan for waste lagoon site

FOR 15 years residents living in an isolated part of North Cork battled to have an illegal waste site closed down.

In April last year, Ireland was cited in the European Court for allowing the operation to continue. The authorities were told to clean it up and claim to have done so.

However, locals believe there is still an amount of residue left in the large lagoons, which held a cocktail of dairy waste and chemicals.